Month: October 2024

• October 30, 2024

  Does Sickness Contradict The Nondual Teaching?

  Question: I still can’t seem to kick this illness…. You mentioned a few conversations ago that I should look for places where the teaching seems not to be true and investigate. Having this illness [that won’t go away], I am struggling. While I recognize that all these experiences are arising to me, I still feel…
• October 29, 2024

  There Is Only The Plenum That Is Silence

  The Bhagavad Gita happily suggests that there are many paths to the Truth; those discussed in the Gita, as you’d expect, include raja yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and (yes) jnana yoga. Turn to raja yoga and, in particular, to one meditation technique: concentration on and thus absorption in the Self. 1. You know that…
• October 28, 2024

  What, Really, Is The Body?

  ★ The following 4 guided meditations (this is the first in the series; the others will be released later this month) were recorded in early October 2024 as part of a Yoga of Awareness Workshop held via Zoom. ★ Listen with an open heart (preferably with headphones) while turning the brightness of your computer down.…
• October 24, 2024

  Considering A Hypothetical Caste Sorting From A Metaphysical Perspective

  0. Let me speak in the hypothetical. A fictional caste-like system hypothetically makes sense, provided that one can look at the matter from a purely metaphysical (not from a political, historical, cultural, or empirical) point of view. Here’s how: 1. In lieu of believing that all beings are “created equal,” we should take stock of…
• October 23, 2024

  Error Messages Vs. Clean Messages

  Question: If all arising are consciousness arising, is there a difference between the “error messages” and the “clean messages”?  That’s a really good question. Ultimately speaking: No, there is no difference. Yet provisionally speaking: Yes, there appears to be a difference. What’s An Error Message?  An error message indicates that I (aham) have inadvertently mixed myself (aham)…