Month: June 2022
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Shankara And Nisargadatta On Sheaths And Investigation
Sri Shankara writes in Atma Bodha, 14. In union with the five sheaths this pure self appears to take on the nature of the one or the other, just as a crystal reflects the blue or other colors of objects which come near it. The five sheaths, or koshas, are annamaya kosha (the physical sheath…
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What Is The Subject Of All Experience?
I. The Text The Kena Upanishad begins with the student asking one of the most fundamental questions there is. That question, essentially, is: “Who am I?” Who makes my mind think? Who fills my body with vitality? Who causes my tongue to speak? Who is that Invisible one who sees through my eyes And hears through my…
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There Is No Such Thing As Mind Control
If you’ve started meditating, initially you felt some sense of peace. After a bit more meditating, you began to realize the predicament you’re in: the mind keeps rising and seems out of control. And when mind rises, there is suffering (dukkha). Naturally, at this point it may have occurred to you to use meditation as…
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On Sacred Art And Profane Art
We might contemplate, as if drinking cool spring water to quench our spiritual thirst, the following passage from Frithjof Schuon on the prerequisites for creating sacred art: In the ancient Church, and in the Eastern Churches even down to our own times, icon painters prepared themselves for their work by fasting, by prayer and by…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 