Tag: Consciousness
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What Am I To Make Of A Blissful Or Horrifying Experience?
A common satsang-style question has to do with one’s having a non-ordinary experience. Perhaps the experience was blissful, or maybe it was horrifying. What is one to make of it? The simplest reply is: “Nothing. Just carry on and forget about it. Your true nature is complete, abiding, unchanging.” If this reply doesn’t do it,…
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A Philosophical Defense Of Byron Katie’s The Work
Philosophical Theses I’d like to offer a philosophical exposition and defense of Byron Katie’s process called The Work. My claim is that when one goes very rigorously through a large batch of beliefs (“belief” will provide one with that which will be tested through this 4-question directed inquiry), one could come to the following basic…
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Can I Sometimes Be Separate From The Self?
Question: I agree that I am not different from Self. But there are good number of instances in which I get engaged with thoughts. Is this due to habit/karma? Yes, that’s it exactly. See these instances in the following two ways: A. Each instance of engagement is actually an invitation to engage in citta suddhi (call…
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‘Mind In Purity Is The Self’
“Mind in purity is the Self.” –Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (ed. David Godman), p. 118. How can it be that the mind that has been purified is identical with the Self? To understand how this is so, we had better begin our inquiry with the question: “What…
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A Very Short Tutorial On Self-inquiry
Right now there’s a sense you have that I am reading these words. Then there’s the sense that I am looking around. Then a sense that I am experiencing tiredness or boredom. Then a feeling that I am getting hungry. These experiences–reading, looking, feeling tired or bored, getting hungry, and so on–come and go, come…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 