Category: philosophical counseling

• February 3, 2021

  If I Am Not The Body Or The Mind, Then Am I Something Else?

  What We’re Looking For There comes a time when we realize that we’re not ultimately looking for a new job, a new house, better relationships, a different place to live, a fitter body, an abler mind. We can’t be truly looking for being better, doing more, or being different. For don’t we come to recognize…
• February 2, 2021

  Is The True Self An Inference Only?

  Here’s the scene: in I Am That, a questioner is pressing Nisargadatta (Maharaj; below “M”) to provide epistemic proof about the jnani, the self-realized one. In what follows, I use “[A]” to indicate that I = the Absolute and I use “[R]” to indicate that I = the relative. Quoting: Q: Is the knower [the…
• February 1, 2021

  A Rough-cut Theory Of Different Wavelengths

  The standard, pre-reflective impression is that all 7 billion human beings are in the same soup. Let me elaborate. If you want to talk with so and so and if you both speak the same language, then, the standard storyline goes, you can speak with so and so in a way that is communicatively clear…
• January 30, 2021

  The Literary Quality Of Seeds Of Consciousness

  Whoever reads Seeds of Consciousness: The Wisdom of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from a literary point of view can’t but ache. I cite just three examples: A man wearing ocher robes has been playing the spiritual game for 25 years and still doesn’t get it. For instance, Nisargadatta asks him, “Who is it that says this?”…
• January 27, 2021

  Nisargadatta Was Not A Sage

  Yesterday I set forth 3 propositions: Proposition 1: Enlightenment is the realization of the most real. Proposition 2: Full, or great, enlightenment is the realization that the most real is the highest good. Proposition 3: Wisdom is the purest expression of the most real in the form of the highest good. For good measure, let…