Month: August 2021
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Pathways To The Tao #3: Excursus On Meditation
In the opening to “Pathways to the Tao #3: Excursus on Meditation,” I write: If one who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. Buddha, Dhammapada We should take the Buddha’s principle here very seriously. Even if we have the smallest glimpse of our true nature,…
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Love Is Making The Bed
Love is intending to walk to the master bathroom in order to brush your teeth, seeing an unmade bed, and making it right now. Love is not Burning Man. You see, love is evinced in all the small acts of kindness, gentleness, and care, all of which slowly chip away at selfish desire. For selfish…
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‘I’m Pretty Much Irrelevant…’
I’m pretty much irrelevant. It’s the honest-to-God truth. The path of awakening reveals to me, at almost every turn provided I observe closely, how I’m not really somebody at all. Whenever I think I’m important, significant, a stand-out, a VIP, another situation show up to show me that I’m over the hill, washed up, a…
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Seeking Out Those Who Push Your Buttons
Even though, to my regret, Ram Dass doesn’t really have a theory of polishing the mirror, he does make some helpful suggestions throughout his book called (well) Polishing the Mirror. Like this one: “There comes a point where you really want to clean up your act. You start to look for the fire of purification.…
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‘Rich, I Think I’m Going To Die’
This passage is oh so very touching. Listen closely: My mother was dying in early February, 1966, in a hospital in Boston. I was sitting at her bedside. By then I had been working on understanding my own consciousness for some years. She was sort of resting. I was in a kind of meditative mode,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 