Category: philosophical counseling
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From Scattered Mind To No Mind
About the Chan path, Chan master Sheng Yen writes: The practice of Ch’an should progress in this sequence: scattered mind, simple mind, one mind, no mind. First we gather our scattered thoughts into a more concentrated, or simple, state of mind. From this concentrated state we can enter the mind of unity. Finally, we leap…
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A Love Song For My Wife
“All objects celebrate the sun,” Rupert Spira writes. Likewise, “All experience celebrates our self, aware Presence.” Where does light come from? From love. What are you? The love that emanates forth in light. Just as words are, in Chan master Sheng Yen’s words, symbols that point to “the wellspring,” so light is an emanation of…
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In My Dreams, I See My Eldest Sister, Who Died 6 Years Ago, Again
In my dreams, I see my eldest sister, who died six years ago, again: My wife and I are visiting my brother-in-law who, as it happens, is not at home. We have so little time; soon we must leave. Already dead, my sister left behind a secret: far out back behind the house she had…
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Everyone Has Great Faith–But Is It In The Right Thing?
You have to trust something. No doubt about it. If you do doubt this statement (“You have to trust something”), then you’re trusting your capacity for skepticism in general, your actual doubt in this case in particular. Whatever you say, in fact, proves the point directly or indirectly. The only question, therefore, is: what are…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 