Tag: Meditation
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The Energy Body And Open Awareness
To explore the “I am the body identity,” it’s best to take an experiential approach: Begin by dropping all the weight from individual body parts, thereby letting all heaviness sink into the earth. In this way, the body is completely discharged of density, solidity, and a sense of weightiness. Indeed, what is slowly being discharged…
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Should I Curb The Mental Chatter?
Question: During my self-observation, I’ve noticed what strikes me as needless mental chatter. Should I try to curb it? What I learned from Zen was to really sit with whatever was arising. My Zen teacher would suggest that I sit without a timer. Just sit for as long as possible. No doubt he had many reasons…
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Why Do I Oscillate Back And Forth Between The Body-identity And Higher States?
Question: It’s funny how the feeling of aliveness is so deeply buried in this body. Even when I get out a level or a few [and come to higher states] and see my life beyond time, as part of a complete super-I, I am still oscillating and undulating back into a deep place within this…
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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…
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There Is Only The Plenum That Is Silence
The Bhagavad Gita happily suggests that there are many paths to the Truth; those discussed in the Gita, as you’d expect, include raja yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and (yes) jnana yoga. Turn to raja yoga and, in particular, to one meditation technique: concentration on and thus absorption in the Self. 1. You know that…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 