Tag: philosophy
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There Are No Actual Problems, Only Imagined Ones
The Main Argument The pith of the awareness teaching of Advaita Vedanta could be put thus: “There are no actual problems, only imagined ones.” The argument can be laid out very neatly; it will take quite some time, however, to verify that it’s true in one’s own experience. 1. A problem only arises in and…
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The Veiling Of The Self Never Actually Happened
One’s true nature is consciousness, the supreme. When the mind is extinguished in the Self, the [three] saktis, beginning with inch, which are said to exist, will completely cease, being [known to be] an unreal superimposition upon the perfectly pure consciousness that is one’s true nature. —Muruganar, “Verse 42,” Guru Vachaka Kovai, p. 24 One…
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Your Inquiry Into ‘yourself’ Reveals Only YOURSELF
Once you contemplate “Who am I?” enough, you come to the conclusion that you’re neither the perceiver (of the so-called world), nor the gross body, nor the energy body, nor the mind. The most obvious candidate staring you in the face is that you are a self. And as you begin to contemplate this sense…
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The Self Cannot Dance
The Argument In Brief Death is a thought and thus is of the mind. All movements appear only in the mind. See clearly that all multiplicity and diversity–or, in a word, duality–appear only in the mind. The statements above set up the central going interest: to wit, the nature of the mind. The error is…
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Diversity (Which Is Not) And Oneness (Which Is)
The finite mind projects a diversity of objects (e.g., the body, the world, other minds, etc.) and then assumes that reality is such that it conforms to this diversity. As a result, when the finite mind “goes in search” of the Self, it posits twoness: its own independent existence as well as that of the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 