The works of Sunyata Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen – By coincidence I yesterday learned about Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen, who was better known by his Buddhist name Sunyata, as the ‘janam-siddha’ or simply as the ‘rare born mystic’ as Ramana Maharshi called him.
He was born on a farm in a village just outside Aarhus in Denmark, my hometown, in 1890. By a series of strange events, initiated by a meeting in England with Rabindranath Tagore, he ended up in a cave in Indian Himalaya, where he as a Sadhu lived in solitude, meditated and received guests. In 1973 Sunyata met with people from the Allan Watts Society who asked him to come to California, though he insisted that he had nothing to teach or sell. He went and spent his last years in the US, where he held weekly sessions for the public. Read the Wikipedia article about him here.
