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The Compassion of Nonduality
The teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination. But the truth…
What Remains
Do I have an overarching thesis? Yes. It’s that our nature is Divine consciousness and our forgetfulness of that reality makes us suffer. Now ‘Divine’ is a very particular word and I use it in the sense that it pertains to the supreme being, the absolute, ultimate intelligence, the source of all. And ‘forgetfulness’ is…
Buddhism Has This Notion of Dharma Gates
Buddhism has this notion of Dharma Gates. It means that there are ways of entering into this primordial state of freedom and joy. And what’s important is that these gates are plentiful, diverse and always present and available in every moment. In other words, paradise is right here and now if only you’d ‘enter into…
The Usurper
The mind, it just makes up a bunch of questions to bother itself with. Questions that it demands answers to before it will allow itself to rest. Which of course is never. The mind just endlessly justifies its own existence, its own primacy. But maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on the mind. It’s doing…
Awakened Mind Has No Prescriptions
Awakened mind has no prescriptions, only descriptions. But since the world at large is dualistic, we have to translate much of what we hear into non-personal terms. So doing becomes happening. And moral or spiritual injunctions become the recognition and description of our nature and tendencies rather than actions we take as autonomous individuals.
Reality Isn’t Conscious
Reality isn’t conscious. That would imply a conscious subject aware of an object. Reality is conscious-ness. There is no second. Experientially we find the subject has no object other than itself. We can find no point of separation between so-called subject and object. The universal subjective. The Self knowing Itself. Descriptions, descriptions. These are just…
