Month: November 2019
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Must We Kiss The Toad?
Is it true, as Advaita Vedanta teacher Rupert Spira suggests in one of his yoga meditations, that thought arises as an avoidance of the seemingly unbearable now? I don’t know. Let’s see. * See whether there is some physical sensation labeled “pain” or whether there is a feeling labeled “suffering.” In the first case, there…
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Plotinus’s Living Cosmos
Cosmos as Living Organism For Plotinus as for other ancients, the cosmos was a living organism. The One, or the nameless absolute, is reality when it is laid bare of every form. It is like the void that precedes all forms, all acts of creation. Yet the One is not nothing nor is it nothingness.…
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The Logic Of The Heart: My Discussion With Johannes Niederhauser
In my second discussion with Johannes Achill Niederhauser, I discuss the role of the “logic of the heart” in the epoch of Total Work. It is an epoch scarcely knows otium, or genuine leisure. Among other things, we ask, “What could be a way out of this situation?” During our discussion, I believe I mentioned my love for…
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Modern Culture’s Conspiracy
Almost everything in modern culture conspires to make me believe what I, metaphysically speaking, am not and cannot be. I am not the solid, objectified body, the physical body that I mistakenly take myself to be. When a cut runs across the arm, I mistakenly believe and feel that it is I that is injured. But that…
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The Interminability Of Gain And Loss
Consider that our phenomenal experience is always changing and therefore that anicca–meaning impermanence–may be true. Then we can come to some ordinary ways in which impermanence shows up for us. In Buddhism, these are called the Eight Vicissitudes, and they are: Pleasure and pain Gain and loss Praise and blame Fame and disrepute We might…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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