Month: July 2023

• July 22, 2023

  Meditations: Etudes In The Spirit Of Atmananda

  Check, confirm, and re-confirm until the below is clear: 1. All experiences change. Test that this is true of, e.g., (a) thoughts, (b) physical sensations, (c) hearing, (d) seeing, and (e) emotions. Have fun with this. Look at thoughts one day, at emotions another, etc. 2. Awareness is changeless. Test: 3. Experiences are in the foreground while…
• July 20, 2023

  Nisargadatta’s Jnana Approach: The Ancient Way Of Liberation Through Understanding

  Nisargadatta’s Jnana Approach What I teach is the ancient and simple way of liberation through understanding. Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands, misunderstanding is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy, whatever name you give it. It is the earliest and also the latest, for…
• July 19, 2023

  ‘I Often Feel An Intense Ache In My Sacral Region’

  Question: I realized today that I often feel an intense ache in my sacral region. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know that I am frequently trying to escape from it, and I end up distracting myself via social media. It doesn’t feel exactly like shame, but it does feel somewhat similar.…
• July 17, 2023

  Self-inquiry: Is There A Localized Center?

  Since all meditation is improvisation, it’s foolhardy to pin Self-inquiry down such that it seems like “a recipe.” It’s not; it’s a spontaneous art. That said, we can look at this “blackbird” in myriad ways. Here’s one:
• July 14, 2023

  From Dukkha To Samsara To Samskara To Maya To Moksha

  1. The first thing you may not have fully grokked is that you need to see whatever negative emotion or thought that arises as an instance of dukkha. Otherwise, you’ll continue to think: “Oh, I’m just nervous. What do I do about this instance of nervousness?” Or: “So and so and I are disagreeing. How do…