Robert Wolfe
Robert Wolfe was an author of thousands of monographs and letters to individuals on nonduality. Many of these hand-written documents were compiled into books published by Karina Library Press. He lived in Ojai, California, where he met people who came to discuss living without division. He died on December 31st, 2022.
Read a short memoir Robert wrote about his life and coming to the perception of living nonduality.
Recommended Places to Start(or End):
- Living Nonduality
- 111 Words on the Nondual Perception
- One Essence
- The Gospel of Thomas
- Ajata
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Works
Free to Download
Living Nonduality - Free PDF
Robert's first published work on the nondual perception. Released under a Creative Commons license. See book for details.
Awakening to Infinite Presence - Free PDF
The third book in the nondual mongraph series. From a review: "By all means, if you are a serious student of advaita teachings, enlightenment, awakening, etc. read this book."
111 Words on the Nondual Perception
A condensed "poem" on the essential teaching of oneness in 111 words.
The Ajata Website
Robert's last two books focused on the teachings of ajata, or non-creation. Many of the monographs of the first book, Empitness, can be read at the site. ajatasunyata.com
Books and eBooks in Print
Living Nonduality
Robert's first published work. A good place to start. Free PDF edition linked above. Available in paperback, hardcover and kindle.
Abiding in Nondual Awareness
After the publication of Living Nonduality, Robert corresponded with readers who had further questions. This books is largely a collection of those letters.
Awakening to Infinite Presence
From the book: "To make real in one’s life…the awareness that “all that is, is That” is unavoidably a life-altering engagement. Are you prepared to “live” with this discovery today?"
Elementary Cloudwatching
31 meditations on living without time. This is one of the first things Robert wrote after his awakening experience. Originally published as a chapbook he gave to friends. Journal entries while Robert was still in the redwood forest.
Ramana Maharshi
The teachings of self-realization. Robert felt Ramana was the pre-eminent nondual teacher of the 20th century. He explores his teachings here through extensive quotes from source documents and detailed commentary
Where Does Infinity Lead?
A brief ebook that works like a logical puzzle to show the implications of the infinite for self-understanding.
One Essence
The nondual clarity of an ancient zen poem. Robert's commentary on the text and insights of the Hsin Hsin Ming. A recommended read. This book is also available as an audiobook.
Always—Only—One
A commentary on core texts in the well-spring of Indian teachings of nonduality: the Ashtavakra Gita, the Diamond Sutra, the Mandukya Upanishad and selective quotes from Ramana in the form of a dialogue.
Science of the Sages
The discoveries of science and quantum physics in the context of nondual teachings.
The Gospel of Thomas
Robert explores the case for the Gospel of Thomas being the most original source of Jesus' teachings, and that they reveal their nondual perspective.
Emptiness
Robert called ajata, or the emptiness teachings, the natural outcome of nonduality. He explores them in depth here for the first time.
Ajata
A further exploration of the emptiness teachings. Robert's last work published a few weeks before he died.
Short Kindle Books
A short autobiographical sketch of Robert Wolfe's 3 years in the Redwood forest in spiritual investigation written in response to reader's questions about what it was like day-to-day.
A autobiographical chapter from Living Nonduality.
A concise essay on both the Heart Sutra (one of the two pinnacles of Buddhist teachings) and the Dalia Lama's commentary on it.
Audio Recordings
Robert's historical imagining of the "troublemaker" Jesus and his teachings to his disciples based on source texts. From an audiotape recording.
Letter 4 - Peace
Robert reads a reply to an email question he received. Part of a series of over 300 audio readings of letters that is pending.