Category: philosophical counseling
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Does This Objective Experience Shine By Its Own Light?
Consider any feeling such as fear, sadness, or anger. It certainly seems as if this feeling is animated by its own internal, inherent power. Is it? Examine the following questions by staying only with your experience of this feeling: “Does this experience shine by its own light? Does the fear manifest, while illumining, itself? Can…
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Ramana Maharshi On Self-inquiry: A Very Brief Primer
1. An experience arises. You can go with any experience, in fact, but Ramana Maharshi urges you to stick with a subset of experiences. Why? Because you (a) know that you are but (b) you don’t know who or what you are. A preliminary investigation will reveal that you’re obviously not the world (duh) and…
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What Accounts For The Fact Of This Appearance?
1. When there is seeing, what is undeniable is the very fact of this appearance. What exactly is being seen may be an error, but that there is some appearance is, indeed, a fact. 2. There’s no way that any organ or function can account for the fact of this appearance. The eyes do not…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 