Disrupting the Harmony
“WHAT IS MEANT BY DISRUPTING the harmony of the Monastic Order?”The Master said, “If you properly understand that the bonds and entanglements of earthly desires are so much emptiness with no place to...
View ArticleThe Final Barrier Is Our Very Thought
MOST PEOPLE THINK THAT KNOWLEDGE is the key to everything, or almost everything, and that the reason we have not yet succeeded in realizing our Self, or Consciousness, is that we do not have the...
View ArticleThe Icy Couch
AS WE SIT, THE ENDLESS SPINNING in our heads reveals to us our strategy. If we label our thoughts long enough we’re going to recognize our strategy. It’s the strategy itself that generates the buzzing...
View ArticleAction and Non-Action
“Enlightenment is straightly attained by freedom from separate selfhood.” —The Buddha “Is not the idea of liberation in the domain of maya? Does not the Vedanta teach that the Atman (the I-Reality) is...
View ArticleThat Which Is
God has no reflection of himself. There is no one or thing to do the reflecting. The One Self is the Self of All, all Self. A reflection would not be the original, but rather an “image,” a “likeness,”...
View ArticleInquiring Beyond the Non-Dual: How Deep Are You Willing to Go?
It’s easy to recognize non-dual presence and let it go to your head. The concepts start to replace the direct experience. At about that time, non-duality becomes like a religion, something to defend, a...
View ArticleNo Death, No Fear
In my hermitage in France there is a bush of japonica, Japanese quince. The bush usually blossoms in the spring, but one winter it had been quite warm and the flower buds had come early. During the...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Awareness
That everything is included within your mind is the essence of mind . . . Even though waves arise, the essence of your mind is pure; it is just like clear water with a few waves. Actually water always...
View ArticleThere Is Nothing, Be
The Philosophy of Sri Bhagavan, the greatest of sages, can be summed up in just three words “There is nothing.” So simple and yet so supremely difficult. “There is nothing.. All this world that you...
View ArticleBearing and Understanding
We have been taught since the beginning of western classical metaphysics that what is is to be understood in terms of itself or as a substance, a constant; its cause is a constant also, whether we term...
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