Simplicity
A Meditation on Pure Beingness “Thirty spokes has a wheel…” reads Lao Tzu*: the usefulness is the center, which still, silent, just as the usefulness of a pot is the empty space inside. The spokes are the sensations, perceptions and thoughts, which we take to be us, to be a “me”—the bodymind and world—we…
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In the experience of more and more opening, unfolding; in the loss of the illusion of boundaries that separate, a devolving of the filters of mind, there is an ease of being. Or you could say just Being. We call this experience of just Being “peace”. There can be joy too. A very simple joy…
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A short dialogue about identity and practices. Hi Eric – I hope you’re doing well. I’m a 19 year old college student studying in [a city in the US]. I came upon your article on healthy ego development, and it resonated with me. I encountered Advaita Vedanta when I was 17, and I’m…
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Why are we told all the answers are in the silence, if such a direction is made of words which are not silence? Notice the paradox of listening to words to be directed to silence, of going to a teacher or a book to be told you are yourself: the consciousness in which the teacher…
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All Teachings are Dodos, and Tightening up what this Site is About I let my personal feelings cloud my discernment, and published a guest essay that I realized was of more of a religious or spiritual-y nature or attitude or tone than I really wanted in the site’s philosophical mosaic. This chalkboard here is…
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