Who it is for
For readers who like question-and-answer dialogues and an approach to non-duality that includes the body and the senses.
Life and places
Public context
- His student Billy Doyle teaches yoga in the Kashmir tradition as Klein taught it. 5
Works
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The Ease of Being
Book · 1984 · New Sarum Press
Dialogues with Jean Klein from seminars in London, New Mexico, Paris, California and Switzerland between 1980 and 1985, compiled and edited by Emma Edwards.
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Transmission of the Flame
Book · New Sarum Press
Dialogues from seminars in Europe and the United States. Its prologue is Klein's own account of his early life, his meetings with his teacher in India and his awakening.
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Who Am I? The Sacred Quest
Book · 1988 · New Sarum Press
Dialogues compiled and edited by Emma Edwards, arranged by theme: relationship, knowing yourself, thinking, listening, discernment, meditation and the teacher.
The short summaries are ours.
In their own words
Short passages in the words of Jean Klein, each with its source. Where the quoted text is not in the language of this page, a translation follows and says whose it is.
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Unconditioned listening has no end in mind and in this openness all the senses are receptive. Hearing is no longer confined to the ears, instead the whole body listens with an ever-expanding sensitivity until you feel yourself in listening itself.
The Ease of Being · Answer to 'Could you tell us more about what you mean by unconditioned listening?'; page not given in the excerpt · stillnessspeaks.com Recorded: Dialogue compiled and edited by Emma Edwards; excerpt published on Stillness Speaks with New Sarum Press's permission. -
First free yourself from the word, the concept, ‘fear’. It is loaded with memory. Face only the perception. Accept the sensation completely.
Who Am I? The Sacred Quest · Answer to a question about fear that blocks action; quoted on the publisher's page, page not given · newsarumpress.com Recorded: Dialogue compiled and edited by Emma Edwards; quoted by the publisher, New Sarum Press. -
The chief obstacle to the fulfilment of our potential is the concept of a me. It is nothing but a figment of the imagination created by memory and by the social context we find ourselves in.
I Am · Answer to 'What is the chief obstacle preventing fulfilment?'; page not given in the excerpt · stillnessspeaks.com Recorded: Dialogue from one of his gatherings, transcribed for the book; editor not named in the excerpt. Published on Stillness Speaks with New Sarum Press's permission. -
In this ultimate desire, our body knows its right place. It belongs to the totality. This ultimate desire is not a fixation, it is an expansion. We can feel it bodily.
Transmission of the Flame · Seminar at La Sainte-Baume, Provence, September 1989; answer to a question on body-feeling and the desire for the ultimate; page not given · stillnessspeaks.com Recorded: Dialogue transcribed for the book; editor and original language of the seminar not named in the excerpt. Published on Stillness Speaks with New Sarum Press's permission.
Documented teaching relationships
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Personal teacher of Francis Lucille
Francis names Jean Klein as a personal teacher, whom he met in 1975.
Self-reported · francislucille.com
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Personal teacher of Éric Baret
Baret describes Jean Klein as a formative personal encounter; the publisher names him as a student.
Self-reported · bhairava.info , editions-tredaniel.com
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Personal teacher of Billy Doyle
Billy Doyle met Jean Klein in London in 1982 and attended his retreats and dialogues in England and abroad for about fourteen years; he calls Klein his teacher.
Self-reported · billydoyle.com , billydoyle.com (2) , conscious.tv
Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.
Sources
- Dr. Jean Klein · Andrew Rawlinson, The Book of Enlightened Masters (Open Court 1997), excerpt on Stillness Speaks Entry in a reference book on Western teachers in Eastern traditions; sympathetic; quotes Klein's books with page numbers accessed 10 Oct 2026
- Gift of Unconditioned Listening? Ease of Being: Jean Klein · Stillness Speaks Excerpt from The Ease of Being published with New Sarum Press's permission, with the site's own commentary accessed 10 Oct 2026
- The Ease of Being, front matter and contents · New Sarum Press (2020) Publisher's sample: edition history and dates and places of the dialogues accessed 10 Oct 2026
- The Book of Listening, introduction by Emma Edwards and contents · Non-Duality Press, sample on Stillness Speaks Introduction by his long-time editor and companion Emma Edwards; personal and appreciative accessed 10 Oct 2026
- Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition: The Art of Listening, Billy Doyle · Stillness Speaks Archive's book page with the publisher's description; calls Doyle a long-term student of Klein accessed 10 Oct 2026
Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 11 Oct 2026.
This description is factual. It contains no recommendation, ranking or assurance. Statements about effects are those of the respective source.