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Read Our Town , by Thornton Wilder. It's a play that was written in 1937, and despite the differences between the play's setting in America at the start of the 20th century and the modern-day world, its main theme still holds true for today. By the way, although there is a plot in this play, the wor...

Ok. That was a “teaser title.” But my point in this post concerns a big problem with language. I’m reading John Wheeler’s “The Light Behind Consciousness.” Wheeler is a direct-path guy. He repeats himself forever saying essentially “You are non-conceptual pure awareness.” He’s not the first to asse...

"The Utter Simplicity of This" From the free extract of John Wheeler's The Light Behind Consciousness found at non-dualitypress.com: The Utter Simplicity of This Questions and doubts are thoughts arising and setting before you. They come and go, but you remain as what you are. You clearly exist and ...

In all honesty, these are just ideas about what "enlightened men" look like (whatever those are) and how they should behave. It has very little to do with clearly seeing that there is no separate self in existence. Nevermind those "enlightened men". What about you, monmonn? Return to your own experi...

The best meditation... ... is no meditation whatsoever. Otherwise, you might be expecting something to happen, something to change, some shift to occur, some awakening to happen. In doing so, you overlook your own, direct experience, which can be noticed and seen at any time. It is in this direct ex...

The Light Behind Consciousness is without a doubt the clearest expression of non-duality I have ever come across. Prior to reading it, I still had an intellectual and confused understanding of non-duality. While reading the book, it became rapidly apparent that non-duality involves seeing from our ...

I have talked to my wife about all this and she says, “If you want to go, go” but I can’t hurt her that way. I’ve been divorced once and I won’t hurt someone I’ve promised to be with and love dearly again especially for something as small as incompatibility. Can I be the space for this? Should I be...

How do you realize the truth. There is a two-fold process. One is recognizing what you are, awareness prior to consciousness, and seeing clearly through your own direct experience that this, and not your body, mind or anything else, is what is you. Second, the sense of personal self needs to be tho...

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The full text of the Ashtavakra Gita: http://bhagavan-ramana.org/ashtavakragita2.html

There’s something interesting that I’ve observed lately, something potentially disconcerting, but also liberating as well. If you’ve ever stopped to look, you’ll notice that a lot of the physical activities that you do during the day just seem to happen. You don’t consciously think about them- your ...

I have found that John Wheeler speaks in plain terms and cuts to the heart of spirituality. He's not interested in giving you practices, meditations, self-inquiry, any of that. He's only interested in pointing out what you are, right here and right now, and helping to resolve any questions that mig...

But how can we be certain that this is the correct understanding of the vichara? After all, we’ve seen that there are other versions taught by various spiritual teachers. Can we be sure that this one is correct? In fact, we can eliminate the other versions. The interpretation that one should merely ...

I've started to look at self enquiry again, and I've noticed something interesting: there seems to be a bunch of different interpretations of Ramana's vichara "Who am I?" I wanted to discuss a few of these variations, and then suggest which one I think Ramana actually intended. In some books on non-...

If he had no idea that he should be in some other place, then he had already lost attachment and resistance. Re-consider what was written here. It seems as though you're reading it as "The thought didn't even occur to Buddha that he should be any place other than the one he was already in." It can ...

But doesn't the Buddha say the true path is the 'middle way'? That when these positive and negative conditions occur, to bring ourselves back, to lose attachment to these conditions? That, to me, is the sticky part and the part that keeps me hoping/searching/frustrated. What is it that you expect w...