Kvetoslav Minarik

Květoslav Minařík (1908-1974) was a Czech yogi and mystic.He claimed:

:"I am the one who has gained the initiation into mahayana, and transferred it to Europe, to pass it on as a fruit of auspicious karma, to people who are already at the end of the deathful night of unknowing."

Life

He was born 21st February 1908 in Litvínov, former Czechoslovakia. His interest of yoga started at 1925 and after one and half year he recognized and to the deepest details personally realized the highest ideals of the Orient, without losing contact with his civic life. [Autobiography "Kechara, the Sky Wanderer", ] Later he formulated his direct experience as an original (not learned from books) spiritual teaching which is based on the psychology and mentality of a contemporary European. The teaching he formulated guides its followers through their life improving their whole being; it does not deal with just the physical, moral or mental component but it harmoniously develops all of them at once. In view of the world's foremost religions his teaching is closest to the Mahayana Buddhism. It is claimed that the Buddhist characteristic of his teaching appeared because he was a tulku of Marpa the Translator, the fourth member of the dynasty of gurus of the Kagyu lineage. He claimed to be the sixth member of this dynasty, right after Milarepa. The Tibetan disciples of Milarepa such as Dagpo Lhadze, also known as Gampopa (1079-1153), and others, were the founders of the Kagyu order. In his books Kvetoslav Minarik explains the spiritual teachings from a different viewpoint to make them comprehensible to a broad range of readers. Almost entire life opus has already been published by CANOPUS [ [http://www.canopus.cz/english/index.htm Kvetoslav Minarik ] ] - The Kvetoslav Minarik's foundation (in Czech only).

After the death of Kvetoslav Minarik the continuation of the teaching is secured by his disciples:Roman Mandys a living successor of the Kvetoslav Minarik's teaching living and teaching in Vienna.PhDr. Zora Subrtova issuing all of his written works. Books of Kvetoslav Minarik, however, have not yet been published systematically in any other language, only in Czech.

Books

His writings were organized into the following books:

Edition Direct Path

* The Straight Path
* Inner Meaning of the New Testament
* Path to Perfection
* The Light of Geniuses
* The Talk of Gods - Principal work. Detailed information about binds of yoga and about "integral yoga" that can be practiced without danger.
* Liberation
* Yoga in the Life of Contemporary People
* Small Mystical Encyclopedia
* The Secret of Tibet 1 - KM commentary to The Seven Tibetan Texts by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
* The Secret of Tibet 2 - KM comentary to the Bardo Thödol - Tibetan Book of the Dead by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
* Mahayana Texts - The Voice of the Silence, The Two Paths, The Seven Portals. Old Buddhist texts by H. P. Blavatsky with comments by K.M.
* Milarepa - The story of life and spiritual development of a famous (distinguished) Tibetan saint from 11th century (W.Y. Evans-Wentz) with comments by K.M. and a study by tibetologist J. Kolmas.
* Kechara The Sky Wanderer

Edition Jewels

* Secret Initiation
* Jewels 1 and 2
* The Word of Buddha
* Penetrating Insight
* Patanjali's Yoga-sutra
* Lao-Tse Tao-te-tig

ee also

*Tilopa
*Naropa
*Marpa
*Milarepa
*Buddhism
*Mahayana
*Kagyupa

External links

* [http://www.canopus.cz/english/index.htm Publishing official website]
* [http://www.kagyupa.com/ Website claiming to be official (International)]

References