Tag: Inquiry
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Ego Detection
Ego As Target Ego is the target of many spiritual traditions concerned with one’s directly seeing that one is the Self, or consciousness, or awareness, or universal love. To its credit, the direct path teaching of Advaita Vedanta has elegant, philosophical ways of honing in on this target in order to see whether there’s actually…
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Is The World Unreal, Or Is It Real?
Provisional Proposition The world is unreal. Rationale The nondual teaching states that the world is unreal in order to get you to discover what is truly real. Definition of the World The world is the idea, or concept, of a unity (or substratum) that synthesizes all perceptual objects (sights, sounds, touches, tastes, and scents).…
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How Can I Be Angry At The Same Time That I’m The Witness?
Your Question I’m still not sure how I can be angry and be the witness. Being angry feels all encompassing and being the witness feels stoic. Aren’t these polar opposites? This is just the right question! Let me take some time to slowly go through your puzzle. I. A Phenomenal Analogy To illustrate what the…
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The World Is Not Real?
The whole universe appears as a superimposition on the Real Self, the Substratum, which is the Reality and hence it is not like a man’s horn. But it is taught that it is not real in its own right. –K. Lakshmana Sarma, “Verse 194,” The Supreme Science As Taught By Sri Ramana, p. 106. The…
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Working With The Work: Who Are You Without These Beliefs?
A Workshop On Byron Katie’s The Work On August 23rd How Can’t I Help? In 1985, Ram Dass wrote a book entitled How Can I Help? The assumption, about the primacy of caring for others, is that we can. Could it be that this is the wrong question to ask, at least at the outset? Early in the pandemic, I…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 