Month: September 2019
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Coming To The Other Side Of Total Work: The Way Of Loss And The Way Of Wonderment
An Open Question @jonnym1ller and I were recently corresponding about the relationship between Total Work and spiritual practices that disclose the one substance that reality is. I posed what he called an “open question”: Re: open question: My take is that there are (only?) 2 ways: what I call 'the way of loss' (WL) &…
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Neti Neti: We Are NOT REALLY Workers
I define Total Work as the process by which human beings are transformed into Workers and nothing else as more and more aspects of life are transformed into work. Take the bit about Workers as the starting point of inquiry. Start here: What sorts of things does the Worker focus his attention on? Simply, whatever…
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Why The Therapeutic Needs The Spiritual And Vice Versa And Why They Both Need Philosophy
Think of Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, the founder and head abbot of Mount Baldy Zen Center, among many other Zen centers. To many of his male students, he was intuitively insightful. During a particular one-on-one (Sanzen), I’m told, one student who’d never met Joshu before heard Joshu say to him, “There is no God.” And: “Stop…
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‘Anything You THINK You Are–You Are NOT’
“Anything you think you are–you are NOT.” So writes Stephen Wolinksy, an expositor of the teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a twentieth-century Indian guru in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta, in his short book The Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Psychology. Consider what Wolinksy is saying. If you think you are X, regardless of what X is,…
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What Is Nonduality?
Nonduality is the view–but then it is more than just a view–that reality is just one substance. That is, all of reality is one seamless substance. To write “just,” as I have in the opening definitional sentence, or “only” may be a bit misleading since it could be read as implying that there could be more than…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 