Exploring the Depths of Nondual Reality & States of Consciousness: Shankara’s Commentary on Mandukya Upanishad

Embark on a transformative journey through the Mandukya Upanishad with Adi Shankara’s profound insights. Explore the essence of Aum, the Atman’s four quarters, and the transcendent Turiya. Shankara’s timeless wisdom invites you to transcend ordinary perceptions and discover the unchanging reality within. Embrace unity, dispel diversity, and dive into self-discovery. Enriched by Shankara’s guidance, the Mandukya Upanishad beckons you to uncover timeless truths and dance with the eternal rhythm of Aum. Ready to embark on the path to self-realization? Explore the wisdom of Mandukya Upanishad now. … More Exploring the Depths of Nondual Reality & States of Consciousness: Shankara’s Commentary on Mandukya Upanishad

The Art of Self-Creation: Unleashing the Power of Imagination

Embark on a journey into the captivating realm of self-creation through the extraordinary force of imagination. Explore how the boundless landscapes of our minds become the canvas on which we paint the vibrant tapestry of our desired selves. This post delves into the profound impact of harnessing imagination as the architect of personal transformation. Discover the keys to sculpting the version of yourself you aspire to be, using imagination as the guiding force in this exhilarating odyssey of self-discovery and realization. … More The Art of Self-Creation: Unleashing the Power of Imagination

How to use our inner chaos to lead a better life and become who we’re meant to be

To move out of the looming chaos, we can pay attention to the loudest call that’s drawing our attention to itself; in most cases it’s very simple and is something in our most immediate environment and time-zone. Perhaps cleaning something up, writing the next blog post, renewing the car’s annual inspection, etc.. It’s only when our immediate environment (both mental and physical) is in a state of relative order that we can get a more stable long-term vision of our life and the next right step toward it. When we make our day a relatively clean day, not only do we allow the next layer of possibilities to shines forth, we also create more positive emotions through these meaningful actions, emotions that are conducive to more meaningful actions that can exponentially improve our situation. … More How to use our inner chaos to lead a better life and become who we’re meant to be

Phenomenological Reduction: A Way To Transcend the World

In performing the Phenomenological Reduction, we do not deny the existence of the world and hour human cover but rather get to see them as what they are, as a persistent Heraclitean flux of appearances that contain within them being-sense, the sense of independent existence, which we simply have accepted and are captivated by them through this acceptedness. As Fink says in CM, “in actuality the world just is not, what alone is is only transcendental subjectivity and its constitutive life, the life of performing acts of meaning.” … More Phenomenological Reduction: A Way To Transcend the World

What is Nonduality: Perspectives on Nondual Realization

In nondual realization, there’s no phenomena experienced apart from pure or transcendental consciousness. There’s no me and you, no I set up against a world. So, it’s in that sense that it’s a non-worldly experience and not an other-worldly experience. There’s no such thing as another world; everything is here and now but only concealed by an apparent diversity of phenomena. In fact, the experience of being-human-in-the-world is nothing but a notion, a sheer idea having the same nature as that of a daydream; this very notion has apparently blocked the seeing of nonduality which is right in front of us and always present and available. … More What is Nonduality: Perspectives on Nondual Realization

Finding the Real in Ecstasy: The Metaphysics of Joy

We need only reflect on our own daily experience to see that much of suffering, I mean the unnecessary and avoidable suffering, is the result of attachment to what’s pleasant and aversion to what’s unpleasant. Perhaps if we have a bad day where we don’t feel great, we’ve made it what it is in contrast … More Finding the Real in Ecstasy: The Metaphysics of Joy

I Can’t Stand Musicals & More

Sinn, in German is to have meaning, to deploy intelligence forward and outward. Perhaps it’s the same thing: to sin is to sinn, to suppress one’s primordial and divine stupidity for the sake of a loaf of meaning; it’s to beat the innocent stupidity in the head by the hammer of intelligence and wisdom so that life finds some arbitrary and transient meaning. Man can’t tolerate meaninglessness and indeterminate being, that is, sheer stupidity. To bring things into form, into intelligible conceptions and limitations, this man elevates intelligence over and above stupidity and takes the fall and the subsequent suffering. … More I Can’t Stand Musicals & More

The Primordial Confusion: How to See Nonduality in Duality

When we realize that realness belongs to us rather than the things outside us, when we realize that we are that realness itself, it’s only then that we become fearless, for we know that realness can’t hurt itself. Realness just is and and it is us. And that’s why he said “that which doesn’t kills us makes us stronger,” for when we face realness with courage and open heart we become even more real, which is in truth a case of reclaiming our own reality which we had lent to things outside of ourselves. … More The Primordial Confusion: How to See Nonduality in Duality

The Ground of the Soul in Meister Eckhart’s Theology

What keeps us from seeing The Truth is our stories and interpretations about it. Once we cease looking in the direction of this self-created drama, truth will shine on its own accord and without the need for our effort. It’s quite often our own efforts, and more so our spiritual efforts, that muddle the waters of Beyond-Being and keep our true essence hidden from view. … More The Ground of the Soul in Meister Eckhart’s Theology