Tag: mindfulness

• 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…