Month: July 2021
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Pathways To The Tao #2: Prelude: Samskaras
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Getting Clear About Samskaras: Putting Ramana Maharshi And Swami Satchidanda Together
Let me begin with Ramana Maharshi’s clear statement on samskaras in connection with awakening and then return to the exquisite commentary I cited yesterday. Ramana Maharshi on Samskaras The following is an astonishingly illuminating satsang with the radiant Sri Ramana Maharshi: Ramana Maharshi: Awareness is jnana. Jnana is eternal and natural, ajnana is unnatural and…
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Samskaras Will Persist Until The Pot Is Broken
The following is an amazing excerpt from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Translation and Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidadanda (1978/2012), pp. 88-9. What is in bold is a translation of a Patanjai sutra; what is unbolded after the bolded statement is Swami Satchidadanda’s illuminating commentary. * * * 11. Dhyanaheyastadvrttayah. In the active state, they…
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RIP Pete Sims (1981-2021), Cont’d
In later years, Pete liked to wear colorful socks. A Canadian living in Denmark and teaching at a quirky quasi-bohemian school, he was a tad eccentric. And a tad eccentric are just my style. You see Denmark, at least in my reckoning and as a rule, is pretty square. Think of geometric interiors (rectangles, squares,…
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RIP Pete Sims (1981-2021)
My dear friend Pete died on July 1st, 2021, of Stage 4 brain cancer. For the past 12 years, he’d lived in Denmark. A memorial service was held for him on July 8th. I first met Pete in 2012. He was just finishing up an “epic project” in Bogota, Colombia, as part of the program…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 