Category: philosophical counseling
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Speculative Remarks On Nisargadatta’s Mature Teaching
Why, after 1973 and before his death in 1981, did Nisargadatta change his style of teaching, and why did he do so so dramatically? I talked to Maurice Frydman [who edited and translated I Am That] some four years back and he edited my words, emphasizing certain points and adding his own ideas, in the book…
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Atmananda’s Higher Reason: ‘Objects Have Themselves No Connection With Each Other’
Let’s go through a case of Higher Reason from Atmananda’s Atma Darshan. Here it is: “Objects have themselves no connection with each other–their connection is always with thought alone.” Here, Atmananda is speaking loosely of “objects”; in this case he’s referring, say, to sensing: i.e., to hearing, to seeing, to smelling, etc. So, take experience 1:…
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Before Everything, I Am: A 3-Day Home Meditation Retreat, Oct. 27-29
Home Meditation Retreat At A Glance For more details and to sign up, go to the Luma registration page. About Me I’m a meditation teacher and a practical philosopher. You can learn more about me by visiting my website. The Nondual Teaching In Brief What the perennial nondual teaching says is as beautiful as it is true: “There…
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Two Basic Human Commitments
It could be argued that human beings have at least two basic commitments: a commitment to expression and a commitment to understanding. A Commitment To Expression The expressive (or aesthetic) commitment refers to the ability to articulate, as a first pass, what one feels. One senses that there’s “something going on inside,” and yet one…
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Steps In Understanding The Perennial Nondual Teaching
1st Step: The Near-ubiquity Of Dukkha It dawns on you, often very slowly, that disappointment, sadness, anger, restlessness, and so on and so on and so on aren’t separate, self-enclosed episodes. They’re actually instantiations of one basic “thing,” which is dukkha. This can be a real shocker. 2nd Step: Dukkha Points To Samsara After a while,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 