By coming to look at ourselves from outside we lost this treasure, we lost this wealth, and we spend the rest of our lives, alas, many of us, trying to get back a part of our lost heritage. I really do believe, my own experience I think supports it, that when we [...]
We’re all like this if we tell the truth. In this sorry world in which there is so much fear and hate and confrontation, the splendid, marvellous truth remains: the fact that the wickedest, the most foolish, the most aggressive people are still built to this pattern – every one of us is. The most [...]
The practice of Atma Vichara is to look at you. The outcome is to dissolve the lie that you are “you.” The you in quotes is the you that you have been convinced that you are, the components and conditions of the life. Your job, your name, your social standing, or any of a [...]
What you now have to do is to take up His invitation and go on seeing your way Home to Him till your seeing becomes much more than seeing. Till it ripens into trusting wholeheartedly the only One that’s absolutely trustworthy, and merging whole-heartedly into the only One that can really be merged into. (Douglas [...]
The practice of Atma Vichara often falls under the rubrik of non-duality teachings. So, I often find myself listening to podcasts by said teachers, or their organizations and frequenting non-daulity discussion boards, groups, and forums. One persistent pet peeve of mine makes me wish that the greater non-dualist communtiy would take a page from the [...]
