The Power Of Recognition Sutras (1 – 20) – Christopher Wallis

Christopher Wallis – The Power Of Recognition Sutras (1 – 20)

Our course to accompany the book

6 hours of content, 1 video per sutra, Meditation Mp3s and bonus content that you can keep forever.

Our aim with The Sutra Project is to illuminate the teachings while honoring your life’s rhythm. We know that most of you don’t have hours and hours per week to dive into videos and intense study. That’s why we have created this format, without compromising on the integrity and content of this rich and deeply resonant text.

The Recognition Sutras

This text, the Pratyabhijñā-hrdaya, is one of the most powerful and revelatory spiritual masterpieces of world history, and is one of the primary sources for the study and practice of Yoga in general and nondual Tantrik Yoga in particular.

It describes with incredible precision the process by which Universal Consciousness contracts into embodied form (i.e., you), temporarily gets lost in that form and forgets its true nature, then realizes itself once again, and experiences seamless unity with the Whole.

Hareesh (aka Christopher Wallis, M.Phil., Ph.D.) is so far the only scholar-practitioner to accurately translate into English Kshemarāja’s 50-page explanation of his own sūtras.

Most of us have been exposed to ‘bumper sticker’ spirituality—vague, ambiguous statements like “we are all one”, “you create your own reality” or “we are all connected”.

But what do they really mean and how do we experience the reality that these phrases glibly allude to?

Without a deeper understanding of the coherent and comprehensive tradition from which these ideas spring, they can be nothing more than feel-good affirmations, meaningless without a practical foundation.

That is what happens when the Tantrik teachings are translated without knowledge of their wider context. This is why we have created this course.

If you have ever asked yourself these questions then this course is for you:

What is the fundamental nature of a human being?

How do we acquire valid insight, undistorted by our past conditioning?

Is consciousness a static witness or a dynamic process?

Does awareness create reality?

How do we become free of suffering?

This course is for you if:

• You want to immerse yourself in the philosophy of Tantrik Yoga and dive deep into one of its foundational texts
• You would like to learn some of the most vital and effective practices ever discovered by the Tantrik tradition (found in Chapter 18 of the text, these have never been translated accurately before) These are the meditations taught in the text itself, and are said by the tradition to be a complete sadhana—that is, all you need to realize your true nature and experience liberation.
• You want depth of insight and recognition of your true nature but live a full life and therefore have limited opportunity for study. You desire a focused course that cuts out anything extraneous and goes right to the core of the teachings, without losing any of the meaning.
• You want access to the expertise of a professional Sanskrit scholar who is also a long-term practitioner.

Concise, clear and practical videos

One video = One sutra

These videos give you access to the knowledge of the scholarly community, made accessible to the practitioner in plain english!

Hareesh has refined his brand new translation again and again over seven years and studied the text with the world’s foremost scholar of Tantra.

He brings a very heartfelt devotion to the spiritual path to these videos, which keeps them from ever being dry and boring.

Study Guides

There is a PDF study guide for you to deepen your contemplations and learn practices based on the sutras. The study guide includes:

• word-by-word breakdown of the sutras
• alternate translations
• key points from the video
• contemplation questions and exercises to bring the teachings into your life

Bonus content

We have created audios to illuminate and guide you deeper into the sutras – 7 practical meditations from the text.

Almost none of these powerful techniques are known to the yoga mainstream today, and they are nowhere to be found on the Internet.

So this practice transmission is a precious opportunity to deeply enrich your spiritual life. You can listen to the audios until these techniques are memorized, and then use them as micro-meditations in everyday life.

An elegant, easeful course site

• You can access it through any of your devices and stream videos wherever you have wifi.
• To begin a discussion or raise a question, a simple click begins the thread, direct to Hareesh.
• Audios will be downloadable for you to listen while offline.
• The site will easily track your progress as you move along the course, displaying which videos you have watched and what percentage of the course you have completed.
• You can of course go back and repeat any of the videos at any time.