On Beyond Zen

On Beyond the Dream of Separation: an Exploration Beyond the Known

Non-Duality and Suffering V. 1

By Eric Platt | May 28, 2024 |

This is an earlier revision of the post on non-duality and suffering. After a reader talked about being depressed, and reacted to the article, I re-wrote it to seem less…

Psychedelics & Nonduality: Towards an Understanding of Ego Death , Openness, and More

By Eric Platt | May 19, 2024 |

Have you ever noticed how kids can have fun so easily, without any fancy toys or drugs or special circumstances? Playfulness and lightness are natural. A stick, a culvert, and…

A Meaningful Meaninglessness

By Eric Platt | May 9, 2024 |

I have a question. It’s kind of personal but kind of not. OK, shoot. I’m feeling the GP. The what? The GP. The “General Pointlessness”. Ah. (Laughs) I like that.…

On Beyond Pantheism

By Eric Platt | May 9, 2024 |

Pantheism is a mistake. Here’s a definition – one is as good as another: it’s the idea behind it that counts. And for “divinity or a supreme entity” or “God” you…

An Inquiry Into Feelings

By Eric Platt | April 26, 2024 |

I’m adopting a garden. A labyrinth. What do you mean adopted? Good question. I volunteered to be the one to take care of this section of the botanical garden. I…

On Having Never Left: Being Awake to Being Awake

By Eric Platt | April 22, 2024 |

A reader asks: … there is no way for us to presume that freedom from self deception or waking up however we wish to phrase it, has any similarity for different…

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To Be Human is to Be Frustrated

By Eric Platt | April 14, 2024 |

Readers were asking why all the articles disappeared… It’s too much “responsibility” for lack of a better word… besides, I never intended to start a blog, but that’s what people…

Self Inquiry: Finding One’s True Nature

By Eric Platt | April 3, 2024 |

I have a question. [S = “Student” A = “Teacher”] T: OK. S: Can you give me what you have – this True Nature – you seem very, you know,…

Self Inquiry: On Spiritual Liberation

By Eric Platt | April 1, 2024 |

I have a question.   [S = “Student” A = “Teacher”] T: OK. S: How can I attain spiritual liberation. T: I don’t know. I am not spiritual. S: You…

A Simple Question: A Dialogue

By Eric Platt | March 28, 2024 |

I have a question.   [italicized = “Student” regular text = “Teacher”] OK. How can I awaken, achieve the non-dual state of consciousness? I have a simple question for you.…

Tracing Consciousness Back to the Source

By Eric Platt | March 14, 2024 |

Let’s “reverse engineer” Consciousness, tracing it back to the Source, the origin of the world. And, to address the modern skeptic and materialist – who the author often tried to…

No Path To Everywhere

By Eric Platt | January 31, 2024 |

Jiddu Krishnamurti said something along those lines – in the elegant phrase “the pathless path” – but the complaint (such as by a certain non-duality teacher I hung out with…

Two Kinds of Liberty and Ultimate Liberation

By Eric Platt | January 21, 2024 |

I remember once being at lunch with a friend, many years ago, and mentioning regarding freedom, that there is freedom from and freedom to. I’d heard it from a teacher,…

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