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Spiritual Reading 

 

 

Spirit-Reading 

 

         This will introduce a spiritual discipline called “spirit-reading”, a variety of spiritual reading.  By this I mean taking a spiritual text (see list below)*, and reading it at the rate of five minutes per day.  It is important to not exceed the five minutes, because when you read something genuinely spiritual at this rate you read much more intensely, and insights, which are pretty much limited to a certain small amount in a given day, magnify enormously.  Set your timer, and when it goes off, read to the next period and stop.  Make a mark where you left off, and resume reading at that point the next day.  In this practice, do not expand the five-minute period. 

 

         *The entire Judeo-Christian Bible (King James Version is recommended), the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Mahabarata, The Serpent Power by Arthur Avalon, The Ancient Wisdom by Blavatsky, Garuda IV -- The Foundations of Mindfulness, by Chogyam Trungpa, The Holy Science, by Yukteswar, The Kybalion, by Three Initiates, The Original Yoga, by Ghosh, The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, The Tarot by Paul Case. 

 

         (William Buck’s versions of Ramayana and Mahabarata may be used. “The Foundations of Mindfulness” was published as “Garuda IV: The Foundations of Mindfulness” and is out of print, though at this writing it can still be found at Amazon or perhaps ebay.  The material was included in The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa.) 

 

 

 

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