Month: March 2024

• March 30, 2024

  Ramana Maharshi On Self-inquiry: A Very Brief Primer

  1. An experience arises. You can go with any experience, in fact, but Ramana Maharshi urges you to stick with a subset of experiences. Why? Because you (a) know that you are but (b) you don’t know who or what you are. A preliminary investigation will reveal that you’re obviously not the world (duh) and…
• March 29, 2024

  You Have Found Your Peace: A Meditation
• March 26, 2024

  What Accounts For The Fact Of This Appearance?

  1. When there is seeing, what is undeniable is the very fact of this appearance. What exactly is being seen may be an error, but that there is some appearance is, indeed, a fact. 2. There’s no way that any organ or function can account for the fact of this appearance. The eyes do not…
• March 25, 2024

  The End Of Cleaning Up

  How can I clean up without getting stuck in being the vigilant one tasked with continuously cleaning up? 1. The concentration approach to meditation isolates one experience and sets aside all others. In contrast, the Taoist approach to yin yoga welcomes all experiences. Each is beneficial, but it’s to the latter that we now turn.…
• March 23, 2024

  Contemplating The Screen And The Image Analogy

  Step 1: The First Noble Truth The closer you look at your experience, the clearer it is that you are regularly not entirely at ease.  You must look closely, however. If not, you’ll just think, “Well, this is the way things are.” Or you’ll think: “Everyone around me is like this.” Or you’ll think: “I’m generally peaceful…