Tag: Consciousness

• March 5, 2025

  The Self Cannot Dance

  The Argument In Brief Death is a thought and thus is of the mind. All movements appear only in the mind. See clearly that all multiplicity and diversity–or, in a word, duality–appear only in the mind. The statements above set up the central going interest: to wit, the nature of the mind. The error is…
• February 24, 2025

  ‘This Ghostly Ego’

  What a wonder it is! This ghostly ego which is devoid of form comes into existence by grasping a form; grasping a form it endures; feeding upon forms which it grasps, it waxes more; leaving one form it grasps another; when sought for it takes to flight. Know thus. —Ramana Maharshi, Ulladu Narpadu, verse 25…
• February 10, 2025

  Diversity (Which Is Not) And Oneness (Which Is)

  The finite mind projects a diversity of objects (e.g., the body, the world, other minds, etc.) and then assumes that reality is such that it conforms to this diversity. As a result, when the finite mind “goes in search” of the Self, it posits twoness: its own independent existence as well as that of the…
• 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’…