Month: April 2024
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Let All Gunk Point To Your Essential Nature
How can I overcome the ego? You’re asking the wrong question. Let’s go back to basics: Direct Experience All I ever know, or come into contact with, are experiences. Experiences: Types 1. Perceiving 2. Sensing 3. Thinking (and feeling) The I-Sense (aham vritti) The I-sense or I-thought is just a type of thought. In fact, Ramana…
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Is The Body “Dumb”?
Am I the body? Is the body conscious (cit) or unconscious, sentient or insentient (jada)? Am I conscious or unconscious? Consider first the body. The body can seem as if it’s sentient, or conscious, just because Consciousness shines on, in, and through it. However, the body is jada–insentient, “dull,” or “dumb.” It can’t say, “I.”…
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Our Gold Rush Mentality In Spirituality
The California gold rush, which lasted but a feverish 7 years from 1848-1855, rarely led to fortunes amassed. Instead, although it did have the unintended effect of settling more parts of California, it often ended up with prospectors going bust. Similarly, in the realm of spirituality, many of us have long searched feverishly for “the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 