Category: philosophical counseling
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Sri Ramana’s Tears
Anyone with a big heart can’t help but cry when reading this story about Echammal from Arthur Osborne’s Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-knowledge. It must be noted that Ramana is not crying for “himself” (whatever this could possibly mean); he is only crying on behalf of Echammal, whose sorrow runs deep. The following…
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We Are Certain Of Two Things…
1. We are, without any reflection or consideration, certain of two things: 2. One is I am. The other is that there is experiencing (thinking, hearing, touching, tasting, and so on). 3. Anyone who tries to deny the fact of experiencing is evincing experience (i.e., is experiencing) in that denial: he is thinking, then speaking,…
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Don’t Take The Kick
Shri Ranjit Maharaj has a very idiosyncratic way of teaching Advaita Vedanta. Consider but two instances (among many others) of his vivid references to “the kick”: A realized person doesn’t get the kick, the world is there, but he has no kick of it. Kick is the worst. The world is nothing, but the kick…
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In The Nondual Teaching, There Is No Problem
1 There is no problem. Therefore, you can stop hunting for a problem (and thus for something to improve). Therefore, you can rest in and as Awareness. But, nonetheless, if there is a thought that arises and if that thought seems to ‘defensively’ say, “There is no problem,” then it’s worth investigating the matter more closely. Is there…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 