Month: May 2022
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Ethical Practice: From Pride To Humility
What are the basic spiritual virtues of those who are on the path of nondual realization? Frithjof Schuon suggests that there are three: humility, charity, and veracity (or truthfulness). Today I’d like to discuss humility. Now, we do well to begin not with humility but with the vice of pride. When pride is removed, humility…
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Why Neti Neti Is Not Enough
We learn something crucial during a satsang between a disciple and Sri Ramana Maharshi. At the end of “Talk 41” of Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi (PDF), Sri Ramana responds quite decisively to what a disciple says about his spiritual practice (sadhana): D. [Disciple]: I meditate neti-neti (not this – not this).M. [Sri Ramana Maharshi]:…
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Happiness Is Knowledge Or Love Of God
Happiness is knowledge or love of God. This is, as it may first appear, not a poetic formulation only. It’s a definition of happiness. And happiness, it’s implied, can be none other than knowledge or love of God. Consequently, all other candidates–popularity, wealth, status, pleasure, experiences, desire satisfaction, wealth, status, accomplishments, worldly success, a certain…
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Frithjof Schuon: On Getting To The Trailhead
In the “Introduction” to Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy, Michael O. Fitgerald cites Schuon’s wife Catherine: [Schuon’s] function in the world is really to bring peopleback to practice their religion . . . to bring them back to a path that leads to God. . . . [M]any people have gone back and…
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Is The World Real? A Dialogical Meditation
Overview “Is the world real?” In this Dialogical Meditation, we investigate (a) whether the world is permanent and (b) whether the world is self-existent. Through the inquiry, it soon becomes clear that the world does not qualify as sat (in Sanskrit): meaning being permanent as well as self-existent. To Learn More Nonduality Newsletter Meditate with…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 