Truth
Let’s look at the hierarchy – the true hierarchy, not the ones derived from social structures: religion derives from the spiritual, in its historical genesis, and its core of “mystical” truth; spiritual truth springs from the non-dual. So at the top, the absolute top, is what non-duality points to. In the East, they call it Atman.…
Read MoreThe way to solve violence has been known for thousands of years. Why is it not heard, known or understood? If understood, why not put into practice? How to restore or continue to enjoy, allow to flourish, a harmony and peace in one’s life, and more broadly, in the world? This, we will look into.…
Read MoreAlthough what we call spirituality may have something to do with nonduality, it is obvious that nonduality has nothing to do with spirituality. It’s not even an experience, and cannot be an experience, nor item of experience. Nothing can be known about it. And yet, people go to spiritual teachers, as if something can be…
Read MoreWho Becomes Enlightened? Who Is The Real Sage? Topic: This article, this little foray, is about coming to grips with one of the the central paradoxes in a field of paradoxes*, of the spiritual game here on Earth, for the spiritual seeker who wants enlightenment, who thinks the messenger is in some way the message,…
Read MoreAll 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…
Read More“Pathological” – Francis Lucille, quoting his teacher Jean Klein, regarding U. G. Krishnamurti “The teaching mainly concerns the dying of the “I”, the “me”; then you are free from the psychological memory. Can this shift happen without crisis, or is crisis an element of it? In principle, there are no crises. But practically speaking there…
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