Tag: Consciousness

• June 23, 2025

  Is Atmananda’s Direct Path Teaching The Same As Ramana Maharshi’s?

  Question: Aren’t Atmananda and Ramana Maharshi essentially saying the same thing, and can’t their direct path approaches be regarded as versions of the Witness teaching? Excellent question! And just the right one. In short: No! Atmananda’s teaching can be divided into “the lower” and “the higher.” The lower teaching employs the Witness in order to…
• June 19, 2025

  Suffering, Ultimately, Never Was

  For most spiritual seekers who set foot on a nondual spiritual path, the idea that suffering–indeed, my suffering–is real provides the motivating force to embark. This is a good, albeit provisional, thing. Slowly, however, this claim is sublated. First, this suffering seems to spread until it seems almost ubiquitous, sometimes to the point of suffocation.…
• June 13, 2025

  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…
• May 16, 2025

  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…
• May 5, 2025

  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…