Tag: Inquiry

• July 1, 2025

  You Mean Karma Yoga ISN’T Primarily About Being Of Service?

  Question: I thought karma yoga had to do with being of service to others. That’s not so? No, not directly–though that’s one type of action that can arise. The target of karma yoga is the ego-self–specifically, its diminution and ultimate “extinction” (The quote marks around “extinction” are meant to indicate that the ego-self never existed…
• June 16, 2025

  Does The Mind Exist?

  1. The mind, it can be asserted, is limited consciousness. This definition gives rise to two questions. One, is consciousness ever limited? And, two, is there such a thing as the mind? 2. If consciousness is limited, it must be limited by something. There are only two possible cases to examine: 3a) and 3b): consciousness…
• April 15, 2025

  Self-inquiry And This Divine Comedy

  Let’s really try to understand Ramana Maharshi’s teaching on self-inquiry. Why does he insist, second only to sacred silence (mauna), that it’s the next highest teaching? Consider the matter this way: In order for there to be a sense that I am experiencing such and such, there really has to be “an I” that’s playing…
• July 26, 2013

  Cultivating Discipline Lightly: A Weeklong Course at Kaos Pilots

  ‘Cultivating Discipline Lightly’ is a weeklong course running during the second week of September 2013 at Kaos Pilots in Aarhus, Denmark. This course offering grew out of the need for Kaos Pilots students, who will be on their own during their final year as they work on their social business project, to learn how to…
• May 22, 2013

  ‘I don’t know… Let’s find out.’

  Earlier this week, one conversation partner asked me to give him a better account of the art of inquiry. I replied that a certain genre of discourse would arise and would be suitable for a certain age. Panegyric and encomia would arise during, and be suitable for, a heroic age, since the poet’s job would…