Kulapops, I am very appreciative of you for opening up a topic for communication that I had been keeping suppressed, not allowing myself full expression. The co-contribution to this thought is helping me refine my focus.
As you may have noticed I tend to contribute to where the "rubber-meets-the-road". Very practical, very grounded.
When I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" I understood for the first time that there actually was an
application behind all the talk and theory and nudges and urgings ons, etc., etc. Being someone who was also very much in my mind/ego that was a good entry point for me.
That was before I knew about Zen koans, but still love my mind a bit too much to take that drastic killing-the-mind route
Ironically, the more I follow my preference to dispel dualities the more I am coming to arrive at fuller understandings of beings such as Mudra and Tolle and other WayShowers.
Source is looking at a very rich tapestry indeed.