Tag: Consciousness

• January 29, 2025

  Darshan Is Or Is Not Moksha?

  Question: I have been waking up with a blaring thought: “This is not moksha, this is darshan.” Wouldn’t it be both? The “it” is key. Let’s start with the standard interpretation: Darshan (though the word is plurisignant and is used differently in different Indian traditions) commonly refers to the grace of, or initiation by, the guru. This…
• June 17, 2013

  The quivering haiku

  ‘The brevity of haiku,’ writes R.H. Blyth in Haiku: Volume III–Summer/Autumn, ‘is not something different from, but a part of the poetical life; it is not only a form of expression but a mode of living more immediately, more closely to life.’ Here is Arakida Moritake, a sixteenth century Japanese poet cited in Alan Watts’…