Month: April 2023

• April 20, 2023

  Nisargadatta’s I Am That: Crucial Distinctions In Advaita Vedanta

  In Nisargadatta’s I Am That, we find an astonishingly clear articulation of important features of the teaching of Advaita Vedanta. Three distinctions in particular are used to good effort: 1.) Change / changelessness: Also: Ponder this. Is it true? See how pondering it “drives you inward.” 2.) Dependence / independence: Ponder this: 3.) Subject / object:…
• April 17, 2023

  How One Wakes Up

  How can we describe the process by which one Wakes Up? I sketch what I take to be a fairly standard process below. Is it the only way? Of course not. But does it account for many stories of enlightenment? I think so. Many Small Glimpses A glimpse can be said to a brief “seeing”…
• April 8, 2023

  Sri Ramana’s Tears

  Anyone with a big heart can’t help but cry when reading this story about Echammal from Arthur Osborne’s Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-knowledge. It must be noted that Ramana is not crying for “himself” (whatever this could possibly mean); he is only crying on behalf of Echammal, whose sorrow runs deep. The following…