Month: January 2020
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Beware Of People Who Say They Have No Problems
Among twentieth century Advaita Vedanta teachers, Atmananda stood beside Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta. These were the “three tenors” of their time. Thus, when Atmananda states, Some people say that they have no problems in life. This is meaningless talk. It only means that they are mere cowards, who stubbornly refuse to think in the light…
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Our Seeming Inability
Reading Robert Frost’s poem, “Out, Out–,” at the age of 17 left a deep impression on me. [1] The poem describes a boy–yea, a man-child–using a buzz saw to cut wood for the family. When he’s called to supper, the saw inexplicably leaps “out at the boy’s hand” or seems to do so. His hand is…
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You Don’t Need To Put All Your Ducks In A Row
You might not think that anxiety arises in you, but it’s quite likely that it does. Of course, you might think that you don’t tend to experience anxiety because you’re not often filled with dread about what the future has in store for you nor, you think, do you have a fear of death nor…
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A Firm Push And A Parachute
The controversial spiritual teacher Adi Da once wrote: Everyone is enchanted with unreality, with the conventional appearance of every moment. Therefore, one cannot break that spell merely by talking to people. They are not just thinking wrongly. They are associated with each moment in such a manner that they are incapable of being Awake to…
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A Way To God, or What Is The Same Thing Here: Reality
2. One must experience what I call an 'existential opening.' By the latter, I mean whatever breaks me open s/t that I'm turned back on myself. Now I–the questioner–am IN, am IMPLICATED BY the question. This, properly understood, IS the incipient moment of 'introspection.' — Andrew J. Taggart (@andrewjtaggart) January 12, 2020 4. In the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 