Advaita Vedanta · 1912–1998
Jean Klein
Advaita · a Western transmission · Listening · the direct path
A European musician and physician who brought Advaita to the West in the language of subtle listening to the body.
The essence of the teaching: Your true nature is consciousness beyond objects and duality. The harder you chase the goal, the further you move from it: it is not reached by effort, but recognized in relaxed attention.
Transmission
Klein led not through struggle but through listening. Sit, and feel the body not as a form but as sensation, as space. Do nothing with it – simply be present to it. In this effortless attention the observer and the observed melt into one, and only awareness remains, in which there is no "me" and no "body" held apart. He called this a coming home to what we are before any thought of ourselves.
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