Tag: Meditation

• October 29, 2024

  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…
• October 23, 2024

  Error Messages Vs. Clean Messages

  Question: If all arising are consciousness arising, is there a difference between the “error messages” and the “clean messages”?  That’s a really good question. Ultimately speaking: No, there is no difference. Yet provisionally speaking: Yes, there appears to be a difference. What’s An Error Message?  An error message indicates that I (aham) have inadvertently mixed myself (aham)…
• May 8, 2024

  What Is The Cause Of All Suffering?

  Question: Is dukkha, or suffering, occurring because of the arising of I-thoughts? No, not because of the arising of I-thoughts but rather because of the identification with the content of I-thoughts. Let’s go back a step and ask, “What makes suffering possible?” The short answer is: “I-thoughts, provided that I identify with the content of…
• October 7, 2014

  In Stillness: A 10 minute chant and meditation

  Before leaving for Denmark where I taught a course at Kaos Pilots, Aleksandra and I recorded a 10 minute chant and meditation, which I have included below. One morning before dawn we sat as usual on meditation cushions. Aleksandra held an iPhone up to her mouth and chanted this two stanza poem. An earlier version of the…
• September 9, 2014

  ‘Stages’ of meditation

  I want to describe the ‘stages’ or ‘states’ of meditation that I have gone through. To do so, I won’t be relying upon doctrine, only on lived experience and on metaphorical language (such as ‘states’ or ‘stages’). The latter is necessary since any non-discursive experience will have to enter into language in order to be intelligible.…