Tag: Love

• August 1, 2025

  The Specific Meaning Of The Inward Turn

  Ramana Maharshi states, “The Self is known to everyone, but not clearly.” All that’s needed is right here. The Self cannot be an object, nor can it be conjoined to one. This is because–to take but one distinguishing factor–the Self is continuously present whereas all objects appear and then disappear. Therefore, the Self is not…
• June 18, 2025

  Maya As A Kind Of Seduction

  Atmananda offers us a helpful clue when it comes to trying to understand the nature of maya. In Atma Nivriti, he likens bondage, or maya, to the captivation one experiences while being transfixed by “the beauty of the figure” carved into a rock. There are three key remarks to make about this metaphor: One, maya…
• October 30, 2024

  Does Sickness Contradict The Nondual Teaching?

  Question: I still can’t seem to kick this illness…. You mentioned a few conversations ago that I should look for places where the teaching seems not to be true and investigate. Having this illness [that won’t go away], I am struggling. While I recognize that all these experiences are arising to me, I still feel…
• July 8, 2015

  ‘I Know the Most Beauty There is…’

  Love of another human being adds density, real heft, gristle, girth, to a human life, i.e., mine. A life without love is only “rather nice.” A few pennies in a drawer, a thought before bed about washing. The worst fate is not that of a loveless life, but it is the least beautiful and therefore the least…
• March 21, 2014

  Kissing a ‘thing which is human’

  1 At bedtime, I lie on my side, facing her. Her hand is so warm, rough from climbing. 2 After I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I lie back down and listen. There: her breath. 3 Epicetus says, ‘If you kiss your wife, say you only kiss a thing which is human.…