Category: philosophical counseling
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Isn’t Being Awareness Just A Matter Of ‘Take It Or Leave It?’
You wonder whether being Awareness is just one point of view while being the bodymind is just another point of view. Isn’t it just a choice? Isn’t this, in a way, a la carte sort of thing? Does it really matter whether one is Awareness or whether one is the bodymind? Or isn’t one able…
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Meditations: Etudes In The Spirit Of Atmananda
Check, confirm, and re-confirm until the below is clear: 1. All experiences change. Test that this is true of, e.g., (a) thoughts, (b) physical sensations, (c) hearing, (d) seeing, and (e) emotions. Have fun with this. Look at thoughts one day, at emotions another, etc. 2. Awareness is changeless. Test: 3. Experiences are in the foreground while…
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Nisargadatta’s Jnana Approach: The Ancient Way Of Liberation Through Understanding
Nisargadatta’s Jnana Approach What I teach is the ancient and simple way of liberation through understanding. Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands, misunderstanding is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy, whatever name you give it. It is the earliest and also the latest, for…
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‘I Often Feel An Intense Ache In My Sacral Region’
Question: I realized today that I often feel an intense ache in my sacral region. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know that I am frequently trying to escape from it, and I end up distracting myself via social media. It doesn’t feel exactly like shame, but it does feel somewhat similar.…
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Self-inquiry: Is There A Localized Center?
Since all meditation is improvisation, it’s foolhardy to pin Self-inquiry down such that it seems like “a recipe.” It’s not; it’s a spontaneous art. That said, we can look at this “blackbird” in myriad ways. Here’s one:
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 