Author: Andrew Taggart
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‘When I Meditate, I Keep Looking At The Clock’
Question: Often when I’m meditating, I feel like all I want is for it to be over and I find that I keep looking at the clock. It feels like those are the days I need it the most. Should I extend the time when that happens? Do you see the mental affliction? Is the clock…
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Being The Witness Purifies The Bodymind
While re-reading Nisargadatta’s “modern spiritual classic” I Am That, I was pleasantly surprised to find him making two sorts of claims about taking one’s stand as the witness. You can find both claims in one marvelous sentence: “The idea ‘I am the witness only’ will purify the body and the mind and open the eye…
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For Nisargadatta, The Witness As A Bridge
In I Am That, Nisargadatta offers us not just any bridge but the most direct bridge from misidentification to Ultimacy. In fact, he couldn’t be any clearer about the role that the witness plays in his teaching: The person is never the subject [Nisargadatta tells one seeker]. You can see a person, but you are…
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The Nondual Teaching: On The Teaching Tool Known As ‘Levels’
The Nondual Teaching: A Puzzle The nondual teaching can be very direct: You are Pure Awareness. That’s it. Period. Most pilgrims on the Way, however, will not be ripe enough to apperceive the Truth to which “You are Pure Awareness” is directly, vividly, immediately pointing. What then? On the Metaphor of Levels In The Direct…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 