Author: Andrew Taggart
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Atmananda’s Higher Reason: ‘Objects Have Themselves No Connection With Each Other’
Let’s go through a case of Higher Reason from Atmananda’s Atma Darshan. Here it is: “Objects have themselves no connection with each other–their connection is always with thought alone.” Here, Atmananda is speaking loosely of “objects”; in this case he’s referring, say, to sensing: i.e., to hearing, to seeing, to smelling, etc. So, take experience 1:…
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Before Everything, I Am: A 3-Day Home Meditation Retreat, Oct. 27-29
Home Meditation Retreat At A Glance For more details and to sign up, go to the Luma registration page. About Me I’m a meditation teacher and a practical philosopher. You can learn more about me by visiting my website. The Nondual Teaching In Brief What the perennial nondual teaching says is as beautiful as it is true: “There…
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Two Basic Human Commitments
It could be argued that human beings have at least two basic commitments: a commitment to expression and a commitment to understanding. A Commitment To Expression The expressive (or aesthetic) commitment refers to the ability to articulate, as a first pass, what one feels. One senses that there’s “something going on inside,” and yet one…
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Steps In Understanding The Perennial Nondual Teaching
1st Step: The Near-ubiquity Of Dukkha It dawns on you, often very slowly, that disappointment, sadness, anger, restlessness, and so on and so on and so on aren’t separate, self-enclosed episodes. They’re actually instantiations of one basic “thing,” which is dukkha. This can be a real shocker. 2nd Step: Dukkha Points To Samsara After a while,…
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Opening To The Inner Child
Dear So-and-so, Go With Whatever Clicks The perennial nondual teaching is always fresh. At this present moment, one goes with whatever “clicks.” If something doesn’t click, it may in the future. If the word “samskara” doesn’t click right now, then set it off to the side. The central point: you set aside whatever doesn’t presently click…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 