Author: Andrew Taggart
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The Humble David Godman Asks The Great Nisargadatta About Enlightenment
In this beautiful interview, “Remembering Nisargadatta Maharaj,” (thanks, Alexandra, for sending this to me!), David Godman, who has done much to make Ramana Maharshi’s teachings more widely available, speaks of his meetings with Nisargadatta. Everything below the “*” is from Godman’s interview/essay. Especially moving is what Nisargadatta says at the very end. * My question…
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Finding Out Who You Are… Or Just Passing The Time
For a brief moment, the visitor, presently speaking with the teaching master Nisargadatta, gets it: V: You mean to say that we should remain at the point of [the] emergence of consciousness? Shall we then understand this? M: Yes, I have been telling people exactly that. V: Then you mean to say that unless I…
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Without Awareness, There Is No Experience
It’s astonishing to realize something that kept, before then, going past one’s understanding. It’s this: Without awareness, there is no (direct) experience. That is, if awareness isn’t shining its light on experience X, then experience X cannot appear. There’s no there there. To be clear, it’s not as if experience X is “waiting in the…
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Logical Surrender In Sri Atmananda
Atma Darshan In Atma Darshan, Sri Atmananda argues: [1] Objects of Consciousness can never be separated from Consciousness itself. [2] They have no independent existence. [3] They are therefore nothing other than Consciousness. Higher Reasoning “Objects of Consciousness can never be separated from Consciousness itself.” The physical object–the seen, for instance–reveals itself to be reducible…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 