On Beyond Zen

On beyond dogma, beliefs, and spiritual addiction

Inquiry into Living, Consciousness & Freedom

How Is This Even Possible?

By Eric Platt | September 21, 2023 |

To see light. To Be. To Exist. To have any experience at all. Sidebar: What’s the point of suffering in order to not suffer – to sort of refine our…

On Spiritual Growth

By Eric Platt | August 14, 2023 |

It can be heartening to consider that, if you think or feel you’ve fallen back into ignorance, or aren’t making any progress spiritually speaking, or that all this non-dual stuff…

Hold The Jewel in Your Heart

By Eric Platt | August 10, 2023 |

To see rightly , one does indeed have to turn life inside out and upside down.   And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only…

On Beyond Death

By Eric Platt | July 24, 2023 |

Bodies die, but you don’t…  Meaning, “you” as Consciousness.     The Universal Deathless One One evening, after visiting a friend and client in his 80’s — I was helping…

Where’s The Will? Or, Liberation in an Instant

By Eric Platt | July 11, 2023 |

One of the deepest mysteries of life is about free will. It’s obvious there can be nothing like will for a separate entity. A separate, individual will makes no sense,…

Start From Happiness

By Eric Platt | June 29, 2023 |

The idea is you start from happiness. Not happiness from something but from Happiness itself. Happiness is not a state but the nature of one’s nature itself. Given that it’s…

The Non-Dual Revolution, Chapter I: Defining “Consciousness” the Word

By Eric Platt | June 2, 2023 |

Unraveling the Concept & the Experience We are on the cusp of a revolution, one as profound as anything that has happened to humankind, or indeed with Life itself. It…

Life as an Open System: Challenging the Mathematical View of Evolution

By Eric Platt | May 31, 2023 |

Recently I saw this tweet from Brian Roemmele. While I think Brian is a very interesting and creative thinker indeed (and I love Arthur C. Clarke as a science fiction…

Higher Reasoning II

By Eric Platt | May 16, 2023 |

A friend asked:   Concerning Higher vs. Lower hierarchy: Isn’t it all one, all at the same level, no distinctions? Yes and no. The hierarchy “higher” and “lower” is a…

What is “Higher Reasoning“?

By Eric Platt | May 11, 2023 |

A friend sent a question:   What meaning do you give to “Higher Reasoning”? I believe it started with Atmananda Krishna Menon. Higher Reasoning is an essential part of the…

Non-Duality 101: How to Realize Oneself

By Eric Platt | April 30, 2023 |

This is a reminder (to myself and others – who don’t actually exist). How To Know And Realize What Is Eternal Q: What is Non-Duality? A: Non-duality means “not two”.…

The Three Stages of Liberation

By meestereric | April 20, 2023 |

Freedom manifests itself as a seeming human being along these lines:   1. Being open to being open to listening or seeing Reality-Truth. A teacher experience (could be any form…

All Else is Bandaids

By Eric Platt | March 24, 2023 |

The Truth, or Reality, or Awareness, whatever concepts you want to use, is intangible-and also the totality of tangibility-thus not abstract or intellectual; it is an experience, and felt as…

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