Author: Andrew Taggart
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A Rough-cut Theory Of Different Wavelengths
The standard, pre-reflective impression is that all 7 billion human beings are in the same soup. Let me elaborate. If you want to talk with so and so and if you both speak the same language, then, the standard storyline goes, you can speak with so and so in a way that is communicatively clear…
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The Literary Quality Of Seeds Of Consciousness
Whoever reads Seeds of Consciousness: The Wisdom of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from a literary point of view can’t but ache. I cite just three examples: A man wearing ocher robes has been playing the spiritual game for 25 years and still doesn’t get it. For instance, Nisargadatta asks him, “Who is it that says this?”…
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Nisargadatta Was Not A Sage
Yesterday I set forth 3 propositions: Proposition 1: Enlightenment is the realization of the most real. Proposition 2: Full, or great, enlightenment is the realization that the most real is the highest good. Proposition 3: Wisdom is the purest expression of the most real in the form of the highest good. For good measure, let…
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What Full Enlightenment and Wisdom Are
Proposition 1: Enlightenment is the realization of the most real. Proposition 2: Full, or great, enlightenment is the realization that the most real is the highest good. Proposition 3: Wisdom is the purest expression of the most real in the form of the highest good. The Essential Point Wisdom is where the rubber hits the…
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Why St. Benedict Was Right
1 Brothers, Divine Scripture calls to us saying: Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted (Luke 14:11; 18:14). 2 In saying this, therefore, it shows us that every exaltation is a kind of pride, 3 which the Prophet indicates he has shunned, saying: Lord, my heart is not exalted;…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 