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Jean
Klein
(About 1916-1998, Czechoslovakia)
Biography Excerpt:
It is difficult to discover the birthdate of Jean Klein because, for him, such temporal data is of little importance. Nor was it possible to elucidate much information about his childhood except that it was spent in Czechoslovakia and Austria and that he descended from a family of musicians. A student of violin at age seven, Jean later became a musicologist. He was drawn by his love of freedom to study intensively, at the age of sixteen, the works of great writers such as Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and the spiritual teachings of Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamurti, Lao Tze, Tagore, and Rene Guenon and to become a vegetarian. At seventeen he enjoyed his first experience of what he called “my own silence.” Jean pursued a lifelong practice of yoga and a study of the subtle energy body, which led him to later assert that the postures could be perfomed independently of the physical body.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
How then did you meet your "unknown teacher"?
Some of the friends I met, and with whom I spoke of peace, freedom and joy, had a spiritual guide. One day I met their teacher and on this and several other meetings, I asked him many questions, qucs-tions that expressed all my earnestness to find my real center.
It seems that you trusted him at once.
I was
open to him. I was struck by his lack of striving, his humility. He never
tried to impress or convince. There was simply no per-sonality. All his
answers came from nowhere, no one, and yet his gentle openness was apparent.
I was struck too by his argument that potentially you are, it only needs
actualizing. He never saw anyone as not knowing. He gave no hold to my
personality.