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On Beyond Nonduality – It’s Not About
It’s not about a mental state; it’s the clarity of seeing What Is. Since there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do, a description is…
Spiritual Reflections on Spiritual Teachings (The Three Principles, Non-Duality…)
This is an update to an article I wrote a couple of years ago. I just re-read it and liked it, so am expanding it…
Poem: My Head Is Gone
My Head Is Gone Went home and discovered My Home is everywhere Sand blasted through time My foot is a radio Picking an Infinite line…
Do Circumstances Cause Feelings?
Dear Eric, thanks for your reply to my enquiry about meditation. Perhaps you might clarify something I’m also struggling with. I really don’t get this…
Sanity, Insanity and Common Sense Revisited
The title and content of this article refer to the book “Sanity Insanity and Common Sense” that was an early entry in the spiritual psychology…
The Nature of Ego in the Psychology of Happiness
Preface I found this article on my computer. I don’t remember writing it – it says 1998 (this is June 2016) – but I kind…
Back To Reality?
Just back from a retreat yesterday, I go into the bank and am chatting with the cheerful teller, telling her how I’m just back from…
Transform a Difficult Relationship By Seeing Yourself
Seeing from the eyes of love and understanding, rather than judgement and fear, we can see someone anew. This is not a technique, but something…
How To End Anxiety: The Dawning of a New Understanding
It’s only via an apparently finite mind that we can know an apparently finite object – Rupert Spira Here’s my two cents on anxiety –…
Some Thoughts on Thought
Some Thoughts on Thought, Universal or Not? Since becoming involved with an Advaita community (meditating and discussing consciousness with them, etc.), many of whom are…
What Is Meditation, and Is It Needed?
To taste something sweet, is it necessary to eat strawberry ice cream, or can you simply eat a wild strawberry? Meditation. Like yoga, it seems…
Eckhart Tolle and Attention to Thoughts
Nice to hear Eckhart Tolle talking about thought and feeling (from the video “your Ego Love Unhappiness”): The feeling will often tell you what kind…
Facts of Life – The Axioms of Happiness
One day a couple years ago, when I was complaining to a Zen-like life coach and friend, he confronted me in a very direct way,…
Western Philosophy of Mind and the Problem of Life
Turning Western Philosophy of Mind on It’s Head Is life a problem to be solved? The philosophers and scientists who are trying to figure out…
Death and Life are The Same: A Peak Experience
When I was 21 years old, I had an experience of the ultimate, the infinite Oneness that we all are, that everything is. Here’s how…
The Dream: A Brief Personal History with The Three Principles
Someone asked me again—this time it was Jamie Smart, via an online message—”sounds like you’ve been aware of these principles for many years. When/where did…
Happiness in Work
“Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You are’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when…
The Paradoxes Along the Path
(Click here to jump down to the list of paradoxes) Note: The contradictions one hears in spiritual teachings are not necessarily paradoxes. What’s the difference…
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On Beyond the Bad News
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi There is an erroneous notion out there I’ve noticed,…
Share Your Being
A bit of “practical nonduality” I posted to Facebook today: SHARE YOUR BEING I just wanted to remind you, in these “challenging times”: How…
On Beyond Death and Predetermination
Someone in the Robert Adams community online asked about death and predetermination. (And when the world has gone crazy – well, crazier than usual…). Don’t…
On Beyond Cause and Effect, Part II
A reader asked “how can one go beyond cause and effect?” in response to my article “On Beyond Cause and Effect“. Here is one possible…
On Beyond False Imagination
“There appears to be a knot between the consciousness and the flesh. A knot that separates the consciousness from the flesh. This knot is called…
Beyond Separate Consciousnesses
A response to a question from a reader. Question: I’ve been on this journey of awakening since coming across Eckhart Tolle many years ago.…
Natural Harmony (A Valentines Day Meditation)
Consider how normally the mind controls most of us. We react to something someone says, or something we see, and we go along with this…
Is The World Real? Reflections on Change and Illusion
Is the world real? Why is it said by non-dualist teachers and sages of Advaita vedanta that the fact that the world of phenomena, of…
Does Consciousness Ever Die?
Does Consciousness Ever Die, Disappear or “Go Under”? Q: If I am consciousness (which I know I am)… and, if consciousness gets lost under General…
Free Will: The Question Arises in the Answer
“As long as individuality lasts there is free will. All the scriptures are based on this fact and they advise directing the free will in…
Notes on Liberation and Free Will
Just by getting your (little) self out of the way you become a blessing to the world – you don’t have to do anything. But…
The Master Game
Here we are trying to make little jokes, but life itself is a joke. We are born into a body only in order to discover…
On Beyond Seeking
These notes are in response to a question. QUESTION: Namaste. [I am] curious to know how your seeking started? When it ended? Many stages…
On Beyond UG Krishnamurti
Where UG Went Wrong UG Krishnamurti (not to be confused with Jiddu Krishnamurti, his nemesis) wanted to have his cake and eat it too: be…
On Beyond Beliefs: What Is Self-Realization?
When I ask myself this morning, where am I, this being on this…whatever it is: this “pathless path”, this understanding (for the benefit of the…
No Body No Problem
Neither scenario or worldview that society hands us, make any sense: neither the religious model nor the scientific one: 1. That a loving benevolent God…
On Human Genius
I got a question from a friend, an artist from Athens, Greece: Question: All humans are geniuses? This is the solution. We [only] think we…