Author: Andrew Taggart
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Samskaras And The True Self
On November 30, 1936, Ramana Maharshi is speaking with a visitor at Ramanasramam. The visitor is wondering about how the nature of Ultimate Reality could have seemed to have forgotten Itself, and Maharshi supplies him with an answer to his question. And then things, by my lights, get really interesting. “Having heard this truth,” the…
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Inward Training (Nei-yeh): A Meditation In Two Voices
Translated variously as “inward training,” “self-cultivation,” and “inner development,” the Nei-yeh is an early Daoist work consisting, according to the translation we have followed, of 26 interconnected verses. Set out in these subtle, beautiful poems is a program concerned with aligning one’s posture, breathing, and mind with the Way of things. Some Daoist scholars, therefore,…
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How Can The Witness Be Identical With The Supreme Reality?
A keen disciple is speaking with his guru. It seems odd to the disciple that the witness of any jiva could somehow also be the same as the Ultimate Reality. So, in Vichara Mana Mala (“Jewel Garland of Inquiry” as translated by Sri Ramana Maharshi), the disciple asks, “How is it possible for even the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 