One method, many tongues — the contemplative road through every great tradition
In the voice of The Syncreticon
Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Sufi, Christian mystic, Hebrew mystic, Greek Neoplatonist — they take very different roads, but the journey ends in the same valley. Watch carefully and you can see them recognising each other across the centuries. This is not a survey of doctrines. It's a teaching about the single practice — attention, breath, the dropping of the small self, the return — that every one of these traditions arrives at by its own road. You can begin tomorrow morning.
Foreword — Of the Method, and Why It Has So Many Names
The Four Motions
The Cosmic Order
Karma
The Two Selves
The Vedas and the Upanishads
The Bhagavad Gita
The Four Yogas
The Three Gunas
The Trimurti and the One Beyond
Mantra
The Buddha and the Four Noble Truths
The Eightfold Path
Anatta
Anapanasati
Zen is the Buddhist tradition that decided commentary was getting in the way and stripped almost everything else away to leave the sitting and the question.
