Month: March 2023

• March 24, 2023

  We Are Certain Of Two Things…

  1. We are, without any reflection or consideration, certain of two things: 2. One is I am. The other is that there is experiencing (thinking, hearing, touching, tasting, and so on). 3. Anyone who tries to deny the fact of experiencing is evincing experience (i.e., is experiencing) in that denial: he is thinking, then speaking,…
• March 21, 2023

  Don’t Take The Kick

  Shri Ranjit Maharaj has a very idiosyncratic way of teaching Advaita Vedanta. Consider but two instances (among many others) of his vivid references to “the kick”: A realized person doesn’t get the kick, the world is there, but he has no kick of it. Kick is the worst. The world is nothing, but the kick…
• March 20, 2023

  The Elevating Consciousness Podcast: Philosophy And Meditation
• March 18, 2023

  In The Nondual Teaching, There Is No Problem

  1 There is no problem. Therefore, you can stop hunting for a problem (and thus for something to improve). Therefore, you can rest in and as Awareness. But, nonetheless, if there is a thought that arises and if that thought seems to ‘defensively’ say, “There is no problem,” then it’s worth investigating the matter more closely. Is there…
• March 15, 2023

  I Want, I Know, I Do

  While there are quite a few ways of seeking to conceptualize what the ego-self is, I’d like to offer a very simple, straightforward one. Ego can be analyzed in the following terms: The I, apparently static and unified, somehow selects and then identifies itself with desiring; likewise, with the act of knowing; and with the…