Author: Andrew Taggart
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The Direct Path On The Yoga Of Relationships
1. The Direct Path has all the elements needed in order for one to come to “the yoga of relationships.” These elements include direct experience, higher reason (or inquiry), and witnessing awareness. I’ll implicitly draw on all three in what follows. 2. Suppose, as many of us do, that you feel a sense of separation…
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The Direct Path Teaching Applied To Relationships
1. The Direct Path, which is another name for the teaching of Sri Atmananda, proceeds in a very logical fashion, one termed a tattvopadesha. It goes from an examination of the world (the gross realm) to the body to the mind (the subtle realm). What’s revealed is that all objective experiences are appearing to awareness.…
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The Spiritual Path: In 4 Stages
STAGE 1: Suffering Is Personal And Unbearable In the face of adversity, I feel that I’m a victim, perhaps a unique one. “Why is this happening to me?” I can’t bear it. STAGE 2: Suffering Is Personal And Is Regarded As A Challenge In the face of adversity, I take it as a challenge–one to…
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What Is It About Thoughts That Seems To Give Rise To Suffering?
Preface Sri Atmananda shows that it’s only by believing that thoughts can refer to real entities that there is suffering. This belief is, in fact, the source of all suffering. Argument 1. There’s no suffering in just perceiving–in just seeing or in just hearing, for instance. (“The world”) 2. There’s no suffering in just sensing:…
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Are You Clean And Pure, Or Unclean And Impure?
1. So long as you feel that there is trauma or, in any case, acute psychological suffering, you’d do well to seek out healing. 2. So long as you feel that there’s a lot of psychological stuff to clean up, you’d do well to clean up. 3. However, there comes a time when an insight…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 