The universe was never created. Matter, energy and consciousness are one. There is no center, no periphery, no end to time and space. Seeing is interpretation. All statements about ultimate truth, including this one, are a lie. There are multiple … Continue reading →
I like to think of myself these days as being without a teacher. I’ve decided to find my own way, during the years ahead, to draw my own conclusions, etc. And I realise I have grown a little dull, not … Continue reading →
Dharma as a spiritual practice that can maybe save the planet I. Separation and underlying unity The world, the universe, reality, can be said to exist both in diversity and in unity. In diversity it exists as a conglomeration of … Continue reading →
I think I will stay about another week here in Tiruvannamalai. I arrived on May 13 to stay with an octogenarian friend in his home close to the ashram. I spend about four hours a day there, in a self-imposed … Continue reading →
D. in the evening pointed out the peacefulness of the place where he lives and said that “this moment would not return again.” He seems to be wishing me to enjoy the moment and make the most of it, and … Continue reading →
Did a little work for the office in the afternoon. Quite a hot day today. I’m thinking how to create an autonomous personal space in the cosmos, and am partially succeeding at this here in South India. My sitting mat … Continue reading →
Found myself growing really exasperated with D. tonight. The dissonance between his assertions of nondualism and his constant disparagements of everyone around him is the salient feature of his discussion. As if there are two themes: Bhagavan (God) and the … Continue reading →
If the matter of liberation is not a personal thing, I wonder if it is actually important for there to be a mystical supramental realization of the truth, as long as one is acting according to the principle of interbeing, … Continue reading →
The individual observer sees other individuals and neither are real, in the sense that neither are complete. The web that unites them, the substratum, is not seen or intuited. The substratum is interbeing. When the element of interbeing is there, … Continue reading →
Sitting in the first hall at the Ashram. A man is sitting next to me reading a newspaper. People seem to do what they want here. Earlier, in the place where the newspaper reader sat, was a man who read … Continue reading →