Category: philosophical counseling
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The Change Alchemist: Meditation As A Leadership Practice
Here’s how Shobhana Viswanathan introduces her interview with me: New Podcast Episode!Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gX-EiPVPListen on Anchor: https://lnkd.in/gwtyd29G “Philosophy urges us to wake up to what we have so far taken for granted.” To kick off the New Year on The Change Alchemist, I have a special guest, Andrew Taggart, Practical Philosopher and Zen Buddhist to discuss…
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‘Man Is Asleep And When He Dies He Awakens’
The following, below “* * *,” is an excerpt from Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (2007). On this score, we should also note the common theme of sleep and waking up. To take but three among countless many: “Man is immersed in dreams… He…
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‘There is no real but The Real’
Let’s listen to Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240) from his Fusus al-hikam as he discusses panentheism or, what is the same thing, a core teaching of nondual metaphysics: The world is illusory: it has no real existence. This is what is meant by imagination (khayal). You have been made to imagine that the world is something separate…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 