Category: philosophical counseling
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Just Be Quiet
The nondual teaching often whispers, “Just be quiet.” When thoughts subside, your senses might open up. Sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and touches may all feel crisper, quieter, more beautiful. The heart may pour forth in simple gratitude. Your dog might crawl into your lap and you might start crying. Contentment like this is a pointer…
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The Real Kind Of Love
It was early this morning when I was taking my wife to the airport. I said, “It feels like we haven’t squeezed all the juice out of the orange yet.” What poetry. Be still her heart. Meaning: our love has matured. It’s wonderful. And there’s, seemingly, always more juice to squeeze. Or it’s like dipping…
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Setting Cleaning Up In Its Proper Context
The Most Basic Terms Everybody wants to be abidingly happy; nobody wants to suffer. And yet, most people, not to say other creatures, are suffering, in some way or other, most of the time. How is one to be abidingly happy considering the way that “the deck seems to be stacked?” The Reason For Suffering First…
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Guenon’s Critique Of Western Modernity
To simplify to an extreme, it could be said that Rene Guenon’s most trenchant critique of Western modernity boils down to the insight that Westerners have no understanding of, or room for, the faculty of intellectual intuition (i.e., direct apperception or gnosis). Instead, our mentality is dominated, by and large, by the operations of the…
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‘Knowledge Is Bondage And Not Knowing Is Bondage’
In his commentary on Shiva Sutras, Lakshamjoo translates verse 2 thus: “Knowing differentiatedly and not knowing undifferentiatedly is bondage.” He comments: “Knowledge is bondage. What knowledge is bondage? Differentiated knowledge. What not knowing is bondage? Not knowing your own undifferentiated self. So knowing individual consciousness as one’s own nature and not knowing universal consciousness as…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 