Month: November 2023
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A Nondual Tantric Ontology: Setting The Stage For Self-inquiry
From The Top 1. There is only one Reality. 2. But then that Reality must be “the subject” of Itself. 3. We have a name for the subject. That name is “I.” 4. So, I am the only Reality. From The Bottom 1. I have (phenomenal) experiences. I experience touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, hearing, thinking,…
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A Nondual Tantric Ontology Of Continuity
Let’s take very seriously the nondual proposal that there is only one Reality, no real but Real, not god but God. This, necessarily, means that there is nothing else: nothing that Reality can enter into or go out of, and nothing that I can go into or come out of but This. What, then, would…
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A Loving Critique Of Nisargadatta’s Ontology
The basic ontology we find in Nisargadatta’s late teaching consists of (i) the personality (or jiva or bodymind or body-identity) at the lowest level, of (ii) I Amness (or Beingness or Knowingness) at the second level, and of (iii) the Absolute state (or Parabrahman or the real, etc.) at the highest level. The point of…