Month: June 2024
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How An Ordinary Hike Is Turned Into A Nondual Teaching…
You go for a hike. The sand, silt, or dirt crunches beneath your boots. You see the path stretch out before you. And you get intrigued. The direct path teaching invites you to investigate all of these things to see whether seeing or touching provides any evidence that there is, for instance, an objective world…
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Can Anything Ever Be Hidden From Experience?
The direct path teaching of Sri Atmananda is, in many respects, especially counterintuitive at first. Let me write about just one respect in which this is so in what follows. Most of us have felt that there’s something that may be hidden yet still existent. We may have thought: “I’ve definitely looked and looked for…
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All Suffering Falls Away Even Before Enlightenment
Near the end of After Awareness: The End of the Path (2016), a book about the direct path teaching of Sri Atmananda, Greg Goode states that once one knows that one is the “transparent witness” all suffering falls away. According to this subtle yet still provisional model, awareness is a transparent witness to which arisings…
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The Direct Path On The Yoga Of Relationships
1. The Direct Path has all the elements needed in order for one to come to “the yoga of relationships.” These elements include direct experience, higher reason (or inquiry), and witnessing awareness. I’ll implicitly draw on all three in what follows. 2. Suppose, as many of us do, that you feel a sense of separation…
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The Direct Path Teaching Applied To Relationships
1. The Direct Path, which is another name for the teaching of Sri Atmananda, proceeds in a very logical fashion, one termed a tattvopadesha. It goes from an examination of the world (the gross realm) to the body to the mind (the subtle realm). What’s revealed is that all objective experiences are appearing to awareness.…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 