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The True Nature of Experience
- by Rupert Spira
- in Advaita Vedanta, Dialogues, Meditation, Nonduality, SAND 13
- 4 Comments
Our Essential Nature of Being, Knowing and Happiness Let us start with our self. What can we say for certain about ‘I,’ our self, the subject, the one that knows experience? The first thing is that…
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The True Nature of Experience
- by Rupert Spira
- in Dialogues, Nonduality
- 2 Comments
In other words, I am and the ‘I’ that I am, is aware that I am. This knowing of our own being – its knowing of itself – is the most familiar, intimate and obvious fact…
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Dark Side of the Moon – Spiritual Teaching & Identity
- by Georgi Johnson
- in Dialogues, Psychology
- 1 Comments
A popular misconception around spiritual teachers is that their work is complete: they are free, happy and at peace and there is no longer a need to suffer. The spiritual seeker may be driven by the…
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Sing a Song of Mooji
- by Georgi Johnson
- in Dialogues, Nonduality
- 1 Comments
“A sage may have nothing. He is empty, but the force of his mere presence alone will draw those to him who have even a spark of attraction to the Supreme. The sage doesn’t point you…
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Atlas of Emotions: Dalai Lama in the Fields of Emotion
The Dalai Lama helps chart the territory of emotion. “When we wanted to get to the New World, we needed a map. So make a map of emotions, so we can get to a calm state.”…
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Not Resisting Resistance
- by Peter Russell
- in Buddhism, Nonduality
- 0 Comments
The building where I used to run a meditation group was on the same street as a fire station; one could almost guarantee that sometime during the meditation a fire engine would come rushing past, sirens…
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On the Nature of Reality, the Self, Time, Space and Experience
Written by Menas C. Kafatos and Deepak Chopra Also see SAND Retreat: The Sutras of Science In this article we address the nature of Reality, universal Consciousness and the subjective Self found in monistic systems of India, particularly…
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The elevator pitch of a world in consciousness
- by Bernardo Kastrup
- in Dialogues, Philosophy
- 2 Comments
Bernardo Kastrup It strikes me how often discussions about the nature of reality get muddled in misunderstandings arising from concepts. Words like ‘mind,’ ‘consciousness,’ ‘subjectivity,’ and even ‘world’ can evoke all kinds of unintended meanings, depending…
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