Month: June 2023
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The Perennial Nondual Teaching: Is Pain Real?
Question I have a question about responding to back pain during seated meditation. I currently bear with it and try to give attention to it and relax it into a good position, but I eventually shuffle around or use a pillow until I need to shuffle again. How should I deal with back pain? Answer…
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Nisargadatta On The Acuteness Of Suffering & On The Longing For Liberation
An Argument in 4 Parts from I Am That Part 1: The Acuteness of Suffering Nisargadatta replies: “Suffering has made you dull, unable to see its enormity. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next to long intensely for liberation.” 1. You must begin with herculean earnestness: if…
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Does The Nondual Teaching Amount To ‘Fake It Till You Make It’?
I’ve sometimes heard spiritual practitioners say that they must “fake it till you make it.” By which they mean that they don’t really believe in Waking Up or that they don’t believe that they can really Wake Up, but they need to act as if they did. It could be shown, however, that such an…
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‘Knowledge Can Remain Unshaken Only After All The Vasanas Are Rooted Out’
Question Andrew: In Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Ramana Maharishi, replying to a disciple, states the following: D[isciple]: Will the knowledge gained by direct experience be lost afterwards? [Ramana] M[aharshi]: Kaivalya Navanita says it may be lost. Experience gained without rooting out all the vasanas cannot remain steady. Efforts must be made to eradicate the…
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Meditation Begins When The Fight Ends
Contemplate Meditation begins when the fight ends. It seems as if what we call “meditation” is a fight, at least for some years. A fight with thoughts, feelings, and pain. But is that what meditation is? Look closely. One Series: Going Back The Way I Came 1. I seem to be involved in the fight.…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 