Category: philosophical counseling
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Does The Mind Exist?
1. The mind, it can be asserted, is limited consciousness. This definition gives rise to two questions. One, is consciousness ever limited? And, two, is there such a thing as the mind? 2. If consciousness is limited, it must be limited by something. There are only two possible cases to examine: 3a) and 3b): consciousness…
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How To Transcend Engagement With The World
‘Engagement’ You stated that not infrequently it seems as if you’re still “engaged” with the waking state. Take time to contemplate the following point: And what seems to follow from taking “all this” to be real? If this interpretation is correct, ghen what’s so neat about it is that all we have to do is to…
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‘I, O Arjuna! Am the Self, Seated in the Heart of All Beings’
“I, O Arjuna! am the Self, seated in the heart of all beings.” —The Bhagavad Gita 10.20 One can investigate this beautiful teaching thanks to Atmananda’s Direct Path method. 1. Start with the experience of being yourself. Hold onto this sense of “being myself.” 2. Then ask yourself: “Where is the center or seat of…
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No Experience Ever Hides Consciousness
No experience ever hides Consciousness. Nor could it. To say this is to embrace the Direct Path of nonduality: “Not a thing from the first”; “The Self is always realized”; “Since our original nature is always clean and pure, how could dust ever alight”?; and so on. If what’s been written is experientially understood, then…
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All Activities Have Happiness As Their Target
All activities, whatever their content, have happiness as their target. Yet almost every activity equates happiness with an object to be attained. Yet happiness is not an object, let alone one to be attained. Therefore, the explicit aim of almost all activities is at odds with the deeper, implicit aim, which is to be abidingly…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 