Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

The Void is Not the Absolute; Silence is not the Absolute............ Many people who practice meditation begin to identify with ...

But why would anyone want to call something unknown and unknowable as their real self? This Absolute, this unmanifest is entirel ...

certainty once you realize that the Void is not the Absolute. However, never forget that the ‘You’ who really counts, is the man ...

Only the Absolute is changeless and eternal, and thus real. We can also come to see that what we are [beyond the appearance of t ...

experience oneself as a subject: As stillness? As unmoving? As eternal? These are all quality words, characteristic words. Stude ...

I jumped back into an embodied awareness, with the thought "I should turn back and complete my walk." I was struck by what had o ...

Who Says the I-Thought is the Ego or Self? Robert Adams and Ramana both said follow the ‘I’ thought. Nisargadatta said focus on ...

That is, there is an unstated assumption that there is an inner ‘I,’ and opposing that on the other side of the skin is an ‘oute ...

Everyone in our culture knows what a chair or an automobile is, while an Australian Bushmen of two centuries ago may not have ha ...

internal phenomena, the ability to relate to another person, the ability to relate to others in a group and to persist in adapti ...

the reality of the world. For Freud, most everything in our lives was unconscious or preconscious, meaning we could access it if ...

the same type persons that always lead to relationship failure), or other kinds of pain. On top of this developed the superego, ...

Does anyone in their right mind think that we could look within our subjectivity and find our personality? Can we find our perso ...

other person’s behavior and body language that reveal to us what he or she is thinking and feeling? Is it not obvious that most ...

psychotherapist, or challenging external circumstances, such as a life crisis, death of someone close, divorce, etc. Yes, seeing ...

entity in us, like a soul that ate rice. We are saying the collective of our body: all its processes, our mind, the personality ...

experience the world in its existence. The world does not exist apart from our experiencing the world. So what is the difference ...

What does this mean experientially? What is their experience? Does it mean that their intelligence or perceiving is spread equal ...

Later psychoanalysts developed models of the ego further and investigated various mechanisms by which that ego interacts with th ...

realized I had been living my life in a fantasy where I was somewhat like a soul inside of the body, separate from the world. Wh ...