9 | WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CH’AN AND ZEN?

Laurence Galian's The Silence of the Mind

A profound exploration into the difference between Japanese Zen and Chinese Ch’an.

In general, I recommend you look for and obtain the following materials to increase your understanding of what we will explore in the coming series of podcasts. This list is intended in no sense of the terms to be complete nor exhaustive. The following titles are just some hints that have occurred to me today while contemplating on this subject.

Brainstorm, film, starring Christopher Walken (Actor), Natalie Wood (Actor), Douglas Trumbull (Director).

Excalibur, film, Nigel Terry (Actor), Helen Mirren (Actor), John Boorman (Director).

Kardec, Conspiração Filmes, Leonardo Medeiros (Actor), Sandra Corveloni (Actor), Christian Baltauss (Actor), Wagner de Assis (Director).

Mother!, film, Jennifer Lawrence (Actor), Javier Bardem (Actor), Ed Harris (Actor).

Freud, Season 1, Robert Finster (Actor), Ella Rumpf (Actor), Georg Friedrich, Netflix Original Thriller Series.

Surviving Death, Season One, a docu-series on Netflix, based on (Author) Leslie Kean's book, "Surviving Death," an investigation into the possibility of life after death.

The Method of No-Method: The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination, Sheng Yen (Author)

The Masters of Wisdom, J. G. Bennett (Author).

Fight Club, book, Chuck Palahniuk (Author).

Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam, Peter Lamborn Wilson (Author).

1666 Redemption Through Sin: Global Conspiracy in History, Religion, Politics and Finance, Robert Sepehr (Author).

Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female, Ashley McGuire (Author).

NEW Maria Orsic, Nikola Tesla, Their Extraterrestrials Messages, The Occult And UFOs, (Aliens, UFOs & the Occult Book 1), Maximillien de Lafayette (Author).

Psychology and the Occult: (From Vols. 1, 8, 18 Collected Works) (Jung Extracts (3)), C. G. Jung (Author), R. F.C. Hull (Translator).

The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon), C. G. Jung (Author).

A Little Book on the Human Shadow, Robert Bly (Author).

Ecstasy Through Tantra, book, Dr. John Mumford (Author).

The Way of Initiation: or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, book, Rudolf Steiner (Author), Clifford Bax (Translator).

The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (Author).

Alan Watts - 'Mushin' The State Of No Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_txLZcEYAdE"

Leonard Jacobson https://www.youtube.com/user/leojaco123

Start Now! a book of soul and spiritual exercises, Christopher Bamford (Editor, and Introduction), Rudolf Steiner (Author).

The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other (a Jungian Perspective on Relationship), James Hollis (Author).

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore (Author).

The Science of the Mind, Ernest Holmes (Author).

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between (Bardo Thodol), revealed by Karma Lingpa.

Corpus Gnostica, Brent Paris (Author).

Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion, Laurence Galian (Author).

Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence, Laurence Galian (Author).

666: Connection with Crowley, Laurence Galian (Author).

The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis, Laurence Galian (Author).