Author: Andrew Taggart
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Living Without Intrusive Experiences
A 3-Day Home Meditation Retreat, Jan. 19-21 Living Without Intrusive Experiences ”Living Without Intrusive Experiences” is a 3-day home meditation retreat. Combining elements of Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, and Zen Buddhism, it’s centered on a playful yet earnest exploration of one’s own experiences. Home Meditation Retreat At A Glance About Me I’m a meditation teacher…
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Two Lines Of Inquiry In Atmananda’s Teaching
Atmananda’s teaching often takes two different lines. One line follows the process of separation while the other invites us to reduce everything to Consciousness. 1. The Process of Separation The process of separation involves splitting subjectivity off from accidental yet habitual identification of the subject with some object or other. Here’s a typical example: Whenever…
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Atmananda’s Synthesis Of Advaita Vedanta And Kashmir Shaivism
Here’s my thesis: Atmananda’s teaching is a synthesis of Advaita Vedanta and nondual Kashmir Shaivism. As for the former, we might look at his prakriti, or lines of Higher Reason, that are concerned with the path of exclusion. We’re invited to understand that we are Consciousness once all mental superimpositions have been removed. This, then,…
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Three Metaphysical Samskaras
In addition to “lower down” psychological samskaras like “I am unlovable” and “I am alone” (for more, see, e.g., here and here), there are at least three prominent “higher up” metaphysical samskaras that I would like to discuss here: namely, I am the doer, I am the knower, and I am the experiencer. Let’s explore…
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Living Without Intrusive Experiences
One of the nice things about Atmananda’s Direct Path teaching is that one starts to experience the lack of intrusiveness. How can there be intrusive thoughts when they’re all occurring in the space of (manifest) awareness–which is to say: in you? Or what about intrusive or unwanted feelings–how could that bit of discrimination be held…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 