Facebook Group
The Direct Path Study Group is where you can post questions about the Direct Path, request topics for group papers and meet other group members. It also contains additional resources and information about events.
Videos
A variety of videos are available on Jenny Beal’s YouTube channel.
The Untangling Non-duality YouTube series consists of short clips from our group meetings.
The Francis Lucille core teachings YouTube series provides an introduction to non-duality.
Guided meditations from Francis Lucille These are an excellent complement to the core teachings.
The Perfume of Silence YouTube videos are recordings from the Center for Awakening online bookclub in which Bill Free and Jenny Beal discuss each chapter of Francis Lucille’s book in detail.
There are also a number of interviews in the Living in Not-Knowing podcast series including ones with Francis Lucille, Ellen Emmet and Billy Doyle.
Recommended Books
Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille was for over twenty years a close friend and disciple of Jean Klein, a well recognized French teacher of non-duality. They both belong to a lineage of Advaita Vedanta teachers stemming from India. (Advaita Vedanta is the main nondualist Hindu spiritual tradition). Jean Klein’s guru, Pandit Veeraraghavachar, was a Professor at the Sanskrit College in Bangalore. Their teachings, despite some superficial similarities, are quite different from those of most contemporary western neo-Advaita teachers. They emphasize for instance the importance of the direct transmission from guru to disciple, through presence, beyond words, and they recognize that the same universal truth was expressed by various saints, philosophers and teachers throughout history and across the world.
The Perfume of Silence
This book is about enlightenment, spiritual awakening, self realization, meditation, awareness, consciousness, happiness, love, relationships, psychological suffering and human predicament.
Based largely on actual dialogues between Francis Lucille, a spiritual teacher of non-duality, and some of his disciples, the music of freedom that it conveys resonates between the words, and gives the reader an inkling of the peace and happiness that are experienced in the presence of an authentic master.
ISBN: 978-1882874019
Eternity Now
Francis Lucille speaks about one thing: awareness, our true nature, the Absolute. This is the ancient teaching of nonduality, the common ground of Advaita Vedanta, Ch’an Buddhism, Zen, Taoism and Sufism, the same common ground which is at the core of the message left behind by the founders of all great religions. In a loving, open, blissfully peaceful manner, Francis leads us to a deep understanding that what we are is love, the pure awareness behind and between all the activities of the mind.
ISBN: 978-0955829086
Jean Klein (1912 – 1998)
Jean Klein, master of Advaita Vedanta in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi and Atmananda Krishna Menon and author of many books on non-dualism, spent several years in India going deeply into the subjects of Advaita and Yoga. In 1955 the truth of non-dualism became a living reality. From 1960 he taught in Europe and later in the United States. Jean Klein was Francis Lucille’s teacher.
I Am
The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions.
What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.
ISBN: 978-0955176272
Open to the Unknown
In the autumn of 1990 students from around the world gathered at Delphi to study with Jean Klein. In this place, once sacred to Apollo, they discussed Advaita (nondualism) with one of its most dedicated exponents. Transcriptions of these lively sessions become the basis for a profound inquiry into our real nature.
ISBN: 978-1916290310