Tag: Spirituality
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The Illusory Appearance Of Ignorance
The direct path teaching of Advaita Vedanta states very clearly that only awareness exists and thus that you are, and have never been anything other than, awareness. For most, the statement above doesn’t “ring true,” and so the teaching also needs to provide an account of the illusory appearance of ignorance, of “not getting it.”…
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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…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 