Author: Andrew Taggart

• January 9, 2020

  ‘I Lose Everything’

  One man I speak with believes and feels that he has “lost everything.” He keeps changing jobs with a view to bettering his financial situation; the overall economic situation in this South American country continues to be more precarious; he lost his dog and his longtime therapist recently; he may be separating from his wife.…
• January 8, 2020

  A Conversation About Why One Starts Meditating In Earnest

  Step 1: Push & Pull You find yourself drawn toward meditation. You ask me: “Why meditate?” Notice that I’ve never said that you should meditate. Nor that you should not. Observe that you’ve wanted to know more about meditation. About what it is and about what it does. Therefore, something about meditation is–forget about how…
• January 7, 2020

  What You Think And Feel You Are You Are Not

  Consider the possibility that you think and feel that you know yourself but in fact you do not truly know yourself. Therefore, consider the possibility that what you think and feel is not ultimately so. Give yourself up to this possibility. The great trouble is that we presume to know ourselves and hence we close…
• December 31, 2019

  Spiritual Teachers With Penetrating Smiles

  The pictures we have of spiritual teachers are of gentle, smiley, ethereal creatures and of wanton charlatans. The latter have, when the traditional media catches wind of something, been news fodder (Rajneeshpuram, anyone?) whereas the former appear only as caricatures of saints and sages, those who levitate and love and laugh. We both know the…
• December 28, 2019

  Dreaming And Dreamless Modes Of Being Are Realer Than The Waking State

  Consider the fact that you will sleep for approximately one-third of your life. Yet you do not, nor do many others, take this fact with the utmost seriousness. You think that sleep is just a void of sorts, one, all the same, that is necessary for the restoration of the body and mind. Sleep, a trap…