Author: Andrew Taggart
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‘Man Is Asleep And When He Dies He Awakens’
The following, below “* * *,” is an excerpt from Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (2007). On this score, we should also note the common theme of sleep and waking up. To take but three among countless many: “Man is immersed in dreams… He…
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‘There is no real but The Real’
Let’s listen to Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) from his Fusus al-hikam as he discusses panentheism or, what is the same thing, a core teaching of nondual metaphysics: The world is illusory: it has no real existence. This is what is meant by imagination (khayal). You have been made to imagine that the world is something separate…
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On The Supreme Teacher
I am currently on a meditation retreat that began on December 17, 2021. For this reason, I won’t be posting again until late December. With palms pressed, Andrew 1. Anyone who is fully awakened I call a master. A subset of masters will, in this post, be referred to as masterly teachers. 2. Anyone who…
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