Author: Andrew Taggart
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Neti Neti: We Are NOT REALLY Workers
I define Total Work as the process by which human beings are transformed into Workers and nothing else as more and more aspects of life are transformed into work. Take the bit about Workers as the starting point of inquiry. Start here: What sorts of things does the Worker focus his attention on? Simply, whatever…
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Why The Therapeutic Needs The Spiritual And Vice Versa And Why They Both Need Philosophy
Think of Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, the founder and head abbot of Mount Baldy Zen Center, among many other Zen centers. To many of his male students, he was intuitively insightful. During a particular one-on-one (Sanzen), I’m told, one student who’d never met Joshu before heard Joshu say to him, “There is no God.” And: “Stop…
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‘Anything You THINK You Are–You Are NOT’
“Anything you think you are–you are NOT.” So writes Stephen Wolinksy, an expositor of the teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a twentieth-century Indian guru in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta, in his short book The Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Psychology. Consider what Wolinksy is saying. If you think you are X, regardless of what X is,…
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What Is Nonduality?
Nonduality is the view–but then it is more than just a view–that reality is just one substance. That is, all of reality is one seamless substance. To write “just,” as I have in the opening definitional sentence, or “only” may be a bit misleading since it could be read as implying that there could be more than…
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Why Meaningful Work Rests On Folly
If the desire to do “meaningful work” above all else is a folly as I think it is, then why do we so strongly desire to do it? Because, people claim, evidence shows that individuals give 1/3 of their waking hours over 1/2 of their lives to working in some capacity or another. That is,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 