Tag: Spirituality
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‘I Didn’t Want To Come Back Inside!’
A new meditator reflects on the “problem” of noise: “I took to my daily meditation to the river today. It was ‘noisy,’ but it gave me an opportunity to practice separating awareness of the noise from the labeling the noise. I didn’t want to come back inside!” Wonderful! When listening is very relaxed, then there’s no wedged-in thought (no…
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Is Time Real?
1. Why is the question interesting or relevant, to begin with? Because there’s a conceptual “set” consisting, notably, of ego, space, time, objectivity, and movement. One of the chief members of this set is time. For instance, how can ego exist in the absence of time? How can an independently existing world unfold in the…
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Does The First Person Exist?
From “Verse 14” of Ramana Maharshi’s Ulladu Narpadu: English translation: If the first person exists, second and third persons will exist. If, oneself investigating the reality of the first person, the first person ceases to exist, second and third persons coming to an end, the nature that shines as one alone is oneself, the state of…
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What Is Karma Yoga For The Jnana Yogi?
Karma yoga has as its central realm that of action. It is not, as is commonly believed, concerned chiefly with trying to do good on behalf of others. Instead, it’s the arena in which one seeks to transcend certain ego conceptions–two in particular. First, karma marga invites one to become detached from any results–good, bad,…
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Abiding Quietly As The Heart
If what exists were not, would existing awareness exist? Since the existing substance exists in the heart without thought, how to think of the existing substance, which is called ‘heart’? Being in the heart as it is alone is thinking. Know. –Ramana Maharshi, “Maṅgalam (benedictory) verse 1,” Ulladu Narpadu, trans. Michael James and Sri Sadhu Om…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 