Tag: Inquiry

• March 27, 2026

  Where Are We Going?

  When I see a homeless man walk by, I wonder where he’s going. “Hi,” he said. “Hi there,” I said. And this guy walked right past our house. Where did he come from? And where is he going? Where are any of us going? And where did any of us come from? I don’t understand…
• March 25, 2026

  Ramakrishna Cuts Through The Divine Mother

  The Sword Of Discrimination Reaching the end of his rope, Ramakrishna said to Totapuri, his Vedantic teacher: “It is hopeless. I cannot raise my mind to the unconditioned state and come face to face with Atman.” “What?” Totapuri replied. “You can’t do it? But you have to!” Searching about excitedly, he picked up shard of…
• March 12, 2026

  Rugged Spirituality

  Have you ever wanted to be pushed—I mean really pushed, pushed really hard? I have. But not to do more pushups or to climb harder. I wanted to be pushed inward, to be directed to keep going toward the truth. I meditated and philosophized for countless hours, but I never found that pusher, that mentor,…
• February 23, 2026

  The Moth & Us

  The moth was fluttering its wings wildly, but it couldn’t take off. It kept trying and trying but still nothing. It couldn’t fly and, I feel, it foresaw its death. T.S. Eliot once wrote of the “objective correlative”: a writer describes a situation in such a way as to evoke a particular mood. I’d like,…
• February 20, 2026

  Metaphysical Commitments In Raja Yoga & Advaita Vedanta

  Which metaphysical commitments draw Raja Yoga (the path of willpower and concentration) together with Advaita Vedanta (the path of knowledge)? In Meditation and Its Practices: A Definitive Guide to Techniques and Traditions of Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta, Swami Adiswarananda tells us that there are four such principles–namely, the “divinity of the individual soul, [the]…