Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits

Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits is a traditional spiritual teaching text about the obstacles, remedies, and rewards we can expect to encounter as we seek relaxation and wisdom through practices such as yoga, mantra, and meditation.

The nine poisons are habits of body, emotions, and mind that distract or delay us from discovering who we really are. The nine medicines are the circumstances that help us to recover from limiting patterns. The nine fruits are wisdom virtues, such as compassion, that naturally appear on their own once obscuring conditioning is dissolved.

With great humor and a long-time practitioner's insight, Shambhavi charts our habitual responses to life and how they gradually resolve as a result of spiritual practice. Along the way, She pays special attention to the obstacles of pride, intellectualizing, and attachment to the Western psychological idea that the self can be essentially damaged.

Nine Poisons, Nine Medicines, Nine Fruits is a guide for practitioners seeking to discover greater freedom of self-expression, greater spontaneity, and more precision and skill in relating to others.

Author: Shambhavi Sarasvati
Publisher: Jaya Kula
Published: 11/23/2017
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780984163489

About the Author
Sarasvati, Shambhavi: - Shambhavi Sarasvati is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula. Her principle training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism, the classical Tantrik tradition of Kashmir, and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi is known for making complex teachings about the nature of the self and reality understandable, practical, and always relevant to our lived experience. Her teachings are grounded in her more than thirty years of daily personal practice and personal retreats. Shambhavi is a householder sannyasini and is fortunate to have received precise teachings in practice and View from teachers of both Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen. She has studied meditation in the Dzogchen, Kagyu, and Nyingma traditions. Her root teacher is Anandamayi Ma. Shambhavi holds an MFA in Fiction from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. At one time, Shambhavi taught at a Northwestern University. She left academia in 2004 in order to devote herself to practice, writing and teaching in her spiritual tradition.

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