Month: September 2022

• September 2, 2022

  How Can A Changeless Reality Undergo Change?

  One of the basic questions for nonduality in general and for Advaita Vedanta in particular is: “How can a changeless, partless Brahman undergo change?” The basic answer would take us deep into an account of unreal causation. For now, let’s simply turn to Ananda Wood’s words from his Ways to Truth: A View of Hindu…
• September 1, 2022

  ‘A Chicken’s Beak Held By A Chalk-line’: On The Illusion Of The Existence Of Egoity

  Wu Wei Wu nicely summarizes the teaching of Zen and Advaita on the non-existence of the ego-self: If one seeks to rid oneself of, or even to transcend, a false self, ego, or personality, one thereby accepts as a fact the existence of such [an] entity and so-doing affirms its strangehold (a constraint can be…