Author: Andrew Taggart
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‘To Seek Is To Suffer’
A wonderful excerpt from Bodhidharma, “Outline of Practice,” in The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (trans. Red Pine), pp. 5-6: Third, seeking nothing [Bodhidharma’s interpretation of the Third Noble Truth, or the cessation of all suffering–AT]. People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something–always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up.…
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Key Lessons From Huang Po’s Transmission Of Mind
With the incisiveness of the kind of supreme Chan master that he was, Huang Po (?-850 AD) taught thus: 1. There is only the One Mind. The One Mind, as itself, is not some thing. Hence, its profound existence cannot be realized except by relinquishing any attempt to objectify or reify it (see 2 below).…
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A Sense Of The Cosmos
The following is an excerpt from a personal essay published in Medium: I. In Search of the Cosmos: A Plea for Astrology and Alchemy You might find it an odd, not to say also an especially infelicitous, way to begin these reflections on the nature of happiness by offering up a special plea for astrology and…
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Meditation Challenge Videos: Exploring The Nature Of Consciousness
The following videos lay out, over the course of four days, an extended inquiry into the nature of consciousness. They’re meant for serious beginners, those just getting accustomed to investigating the nature of consciousness. For this reason, we only go “so far” together. Since the recordings usually begin with a bit of background and then…
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A (Broken) Playbook for Happiness
If you’re a serious beginner interested in learning how to meditate, then you can join Khe Hy and me for a free 4-day meditation challenge starting this Tuesday. * The following is the opening section of Khe Hy’s probing personal essay “A (Broken) Playbook for Happiness”: Let’s play a game together. I want you to…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 