Month: February 2021

• February 27, 2021

  Pathways To The Tao #1: Dialogical Meditations

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• February 20, 2021

  Distrusting Neo-Advaita And The Finite Mind

  An excerpt from Earl Rosner’s On the Road to Freedom illustrates the value of purifying the mind. The first speaker is an early proponent of Neo-Advaita. Rosner himself offers the cogent reply: “All of these things are only for weak-minded people. You should just go on thinking ‘I am That,’ ‘I am That,’ and you…
• February 19, 2021

  Disregarding The Mind

  Someone comes to Nisargadatta and says, “We are like animals running about in vain pursuits and there seems to be no end to it. Is there a way out” (I Am That, p. 414). What clear insight. How astute. And Nisargadatta replies, “What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all is the…
• February 18, 2021

  Love, Work, And Paragate

  Freud once said, “Love and work…work and love, that’s all there is… love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” As a normative statement about the good life, the claim can’t be true, yet as a description of modernity’s cornerstones, it is close enough. The invitation comes from a rupture in our lives, a rock that shatters the illusion.…
• February 17, 2021

  Losses, Failures, And Mysticism

  Rare is the person who hears and heeds the call Home unless one has first been rocked by losses and failures. Yet too often, and too quickly, losses and failures can cement the obstinate sense of pride of the sufferer. Presented with loss and failure, the proud one may try harder, may try to be…