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Alexandra David-Néelová, rozená Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie Davidová, byla belgicko-francouzská cestovatelka, průzkumnice, spiritualistka, buddhistka a spisovatelka. Ve známost vešla především díky své návštěvě tibetské Lhasy v roce 1924, kdy byl cizincům vstup do města zakázán. David-Néelová napsala přes třicet knih o východních náboženstvích, filosofii i o svých cestách. Měla vliv na beatnické spisovatele jako Jack Kerouac a Allen Ginsberg či filosofa Alana Wattse. Její knihu o Tibetu čte také Karel Kopfrkingl v románu a filmu Spalovač mrtvol. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. říjen 1868 – 8. září 1969
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“Nine hundred feet below my cave rhododendrons blossomed. I climbed barren mountain-tops. Long tramps led me to desolate valleys studded with translucent lakes... Solitude, solitude! ...Mind and senses develop their sensibility in this contemplative life made up of continual observations and reflections. Does one become a visionary or, rather, is it not that one has been blind until then?”

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Magic And Mystery In Tibet

“The faith commended to their faithful by all religions, and considered by them as a virtue essential for him who hopes for eternal salvation, is nowise approved in the Secret Teachings. Based on the advice given by the Buddha to His disciples, the primary recommendation that the Masters give to neophytes is: Doubt! Doubt is an incitement to research, and research is the Way which leads to Knowledge.”

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Zdroj: The Secret Oral Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Sects (1964)

“The Masters of the secret teachings say that the truth learned from another is of no value, and that the only truth which is living and effective, which is of value, is the truth which we ourselves discover.”

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Zdroj: The Secret Oral Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Sects (1964)

“Sadly, almost with terror, I often looked at the threadlike path which I saw, lower down, winding in the valleys and disappearing between the mountains. The day would come when it would lead me back to the sorrowful world that existed beyond the distant hill ranges, and so thinking, an indescribable suffering lay hold of me.”

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Magic And Mystery In Tibet

“Orthodox Buddhism strictly forbids religious rites, and the learned lamas acknowledge that they cannot bestow spiritual enlightenment, which can only be acquired by personal intellectual effort. Yet the majority believe in the efficacy of certain ritualistic methods of the healing of the sick, securing material prosperity, the conquest of evil beings and the guidance of the spirits of the dead in the other world.”

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Magic And Mystery In Tibet

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