Author: Andrew Taggart
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Meditation Without Practice: Part 1
“Meditation is not something that we do. Whether we know it or not, it is what we are.” –Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things: Contemplating The Nature of Experience It can seem as if what Rupert Spira has just written can’t possibly be true. In this post, I begin by sketching, in a very cursory…
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If An Experience Is Not Always With You, Then It Cannot Be You
1. If an experience of whatever kind is not always with you, then it cannot be identical with you. 2. Possible experience types include perceiving, sensing, thinking, feeling, and acting. 3. Explore perceiving: Is hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, or smelling always with you? (a) See what it’s like to directly understand that none of these…
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How Seeing A Pencil Reveals My Nature
Non-existence Of Objects Step 1: In this experiment, start by taking any physical object like a pencil. Hold it up and look at it. Call this “the sight” or “the seen object.” Note that you are aware of the sight of this pencil. Contemplate: Does being aware of this pencil prove that the pencil exists…
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Can Fear Affect Me?
Question: My body experiences a lot of fear and anxiety. I wonder: how much of this fear is rooted in this life‘s stressors and much comes from previous generations? You’re presuming that fear is a problem, and the mind is looking for causes. Fear is not a problem, and thus no cause need be sought.…
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Do I Have To Get Rid Of The Ego?
Suppose, for the purposes of the following investigation, that there is the horizontal plane as well as the vertical dimension. In this schema, “the horizontal plane” refers to the natural flow of objective experiences while “the vertical dimension” refers to Witnessing Consciousness. Take a set of objective experiences like: Meanwhile, I am the Witnessing Consciousness…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 