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Advanced Meditation Techniques & Systematic Consciousness-Development Curriculum

Contents — 6 chapters
  1. Central Channel Breathing (foundation)
  2. Ego Observation Practice
  3. Curriculum spine
  4. Samyama — Patanjali's inner limbs
  5. The Dhammapada on heedful attention
  6. Plotinus and the turn toward the One

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PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEparallel to · medium confidence
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”
— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
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The Dhammapada & Sutta-Nipata (SBE Vol. 10)Buddhist / Theravada (Pali) · c. 300–100 BCE; SBE 1881grounded in · high confidence
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
— The Dhammapada, Ch. I (The Twin-Verses), v. 1 — trans. F. Max Müller, SBE Vol. 10
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Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounded in · high confidence
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”
— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)
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