Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

itself, through you, who is also the Self, and the mind, and the physical body, and the Absolute, it is experienced as divine en ...

The path to the Absolute through the looker, or subject, is the way of the Jnani. The path to Self- Realization through the ‘I A ...

Absolute, is as much ‘You’ as ‘You’ are the witness. You have the luxury of identify with all of “it,” from your position as the ...

and become totally your irrepressible self, acting from the heart, not the mind or from convention, and this ‘heart’ is not a Li ...

Emotional Truth............................................................................ Thirty years ago I was engaged in di ...

I disagreed, believing, based on my own experience, that there was no ego, no I-entity, so how could it evolve? What I felt evol ...

Among our Sangha there are at least five people who, because of their dysfunctional upbringing, did not find sufficient love in ...

Some people want absolute security before they will love deeply, but there is no such security anywhere. When my cat, Satchitana ...

be truncated. We must be willing to love and lose rather than to not love, or only love in secure situations, otherwise there is ...

Because, unless you are fully capable of tolerating intolerable emotional pain, intolerably intense love, intolerably intense fe ...

We Are Also Human Beings.......................................................... We had an interesting Satsang yesterday. We m ...

At the monastery, while doing zazen for 4 hours a day, I find remaining in that alert space happens naturally and often, but in ...

way over to absoluteness without having to live in a cave by myself. Nor does it seem particularly desirable or altruistic to ex ...

and a very fleeting existence before the “Big Rest” of death. My personal belief is that we need to embrace both: accepting our ...

continuation and deepening of the process whereby we become ourselves. Hindu temple in Malibu. ...

On Guru Concepts and Self-Inquiry.............................................. Student: My question is about jnani behaviors al ...

Chadwick also made some criticisms of Ramana. He says that Ramana used to chew snuff (A pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a ...

I have mentioned all this because this question of behaviors sometimes give me some disturbance, because I think that I should b ...

The point is for you yourself to become Self- Realized, with whatever "faults" you may think you should not have. Just be yourse ...

More on Being Human.................................................................. I have a dear friend with whom I was speak ...