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A NOTE ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, Loving Personhood or Liberation
A NOTE ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, Loving Personhood or Liberation from Personhood by Robert Perry This article was sent to me by a student of mine a...

Some people have wondered why I bother engaging some views that I
Some people have wondered why I bother engaging some views that I find unhelpful or unhealthy when the people that hold these views seem so contracted...

I just find again and again so many still adopting others blanket
I just find again and again so many still adopting others blanket de-constructive formulas and theories about reality as a way to try to somehow have ...

We seem to have no trouble in getting the fact that God is
We seem to have no trouble in getting the fact that God is reflected in a giraffe precisely through its wonderful and hilarious giraffe-ness. We see c...

Human perfectionism and infallibility is a pipe dream. A flawless
Human perfectionism and infallibility is a pipe dream. A flawless Utopian existence is a fantasy. Many of us have such hopes and dreams that we attach...

One kind of initial awakening that is really quite simple is when
One kind of initial awakening that is really quite simple is when one simply becomes aware that they are aware. But this awakening is not the final fr...

Deep awakening or enlightenment is not just adopting a new bunch
Deep awakening or enlightenment is not just adopting a new bunch of novel Advaitic philosophical thoughts and beliefs about reality. It is not about h...

A comment by Sara Avtar......... I am reminded of insights
A comment by Sara Avtar......... I am reminded of insights from practice in the Theravada tradition of Vipassana: Seeing beyond witness consciousnes...

The truest teaching of spirituality is not really about words or
The truest teaching of spirituality is not really about words or actions at its source. The true teaching is about being, not speaking or even doing. ...

There is a functional and useful ego or personal identity and
There is a functional and useful ego or personal identity and there is a dysfunctional one. When we see this identity as an inevitable surface identit...