Jean Klein (October 19, 1912 – February 22, 1998) was a French author, spiritual teacher and philosopher of

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According to Jean Klein, it is only in a "spontaneous state of interior silence that we can open ourselves to our true nature: the 'I Am' of pure consciousness."

Biography

Jean Klein was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in Brno and

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. He studied musicology and medicine in

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and

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, becoming a physician. Having left Germany in 1933 for France, he secretly worked with the

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in the

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. After the war, Klein again left for India to study

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and Advaita Vedanta for three years. During those three years he met a spiritual teacher of Advaita, Pandit Veeraraghavachar Rao, a scholar at the Sanskrit College in Bangalore, and returned to the West to become a spiritual teacher himself. He died in 1998 in

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Books

*''Be Who You Are'', 1978, ; 2006, *''The Ease of Being'', 1986, *''Who Am I? The Sacred Quest'', 1988, ; 2006, *''I Am'', 1989, ; 2006, *''Transmission of the Flame'', 1990, ; *''Open to the Unknown: Dialogues in Delphi'', 1993, *''Beyond Knowledge'', 1994, ; 2006, 0-9551762-8-X *''Living Truth: Where Time and Timelessness Meet'', 1995, ; 2007, *''The Book of Listening'', 2008,

External links

Jean Klein on Wordpress

Jean Klein audio recordings
*Experiencing the Teaching of Jean Klein:
Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Klein, Jean 1912 births French spiritual writers Spiritual teachers 20th-century mystics 1998 deaths French male writers 20th-century French male writers Nonduality teachers