Tag: Consciousness
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How To Transcend Engagement With The World
‘Engagement’ You stated that not infrequently it seems as if you’re still “engaged” with the waking state. Take time to contemplate the following point: And what seems to follow from taking “all this” to be real? If this interpretation is correct, ghen what’s so neat about it is that all we have to do is to…
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Sisyphysian Man Or A Daoist Melody?
Part 1: What Is The Doer? Let’s explore the I am the doer conception further. In what follows, I’ll call it “doership” or simply “the doer” for short. What is this concept? No one is denying that activities or even doings happen. These are, after all, readily observable. The question might then be put: “Has anyone…
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Is Time Real?
1. Why is the question interesting or relevant, to begin with? Because there’s a conceptual “set” consisting, notably, of ego, space, time, objectivity, and movement. One of the chief members of this set is time. For instance, how can ego exist in the absence of time? How can an independently existing world unfold in the…
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Does The First Person Exist?
From “Verse 14” of Ramana Maharshi’s Ulladu Narpadu: English translation: If the first person exists, second and third persons will exist. If, oneself investigating the reality of the first person, the first person ceases to exist, second and third persons coming to an end, the nature that shines as one alone is oneself, the state of…
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Abiding Quietly As The Heart
If what exists were not, would existing awareness exist? Since the existing substance exists in the heart without thought, how to think of the existing substance, which is called ‘heart’? Being in the heart as it is alone is thinking. Know. –Ramana Maharshi, “Maṅgalam (benedictory) verse 1,” Ulladu Narpadu, trans. Michael James and Sri Sadhu Om…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 