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It's rather strange, but I am increasingly convinced that until one is inwardly prepared to allow the realization that "I"=God, no amount of reading or study, even in the non-dual traditions, will reveal it. We will always find a "work-around", or why it's not present fact, or a...

Yes, exactly. If you pursue this concept further, then, you begin to understand the importance and reason for all the teachings' emphasis on getting one's act together, and finding out "who you are". ALL, and I do mean ALL, religious discplines at base are about this fundamental imperative...

To carry this a bit further: Perhaps the actual living of that truth, that you must try to help, both yourself and others out of their suffering, knowing full well that there is nothing you can do to change the situation, is actually a subtle expression of universal love. In other words, to do this ...

Oh my yes, it is a real problem with me. I often start to write something, and a little way into it, I realize that there is nothing to say, indeed, I often read what I have written and find it so inadequate, and so unnecessary. That said, some great old Sufi (there were so many of them!), stated th...

Was it Nisargadatta, or Da Free John (?) who said "I am not here to console you."

iamDiane wrote: One walks their talk through being!

Oh, I like that very much!

In any event, here's a story about Josie to highlight your point, Anna: One day while I was staying with Josie, I asked her why she didn't have bottled water delivered to her home instead of having my oldest sister drag in gallon after gallon when she went shoping for Josie. Josie lived in a big ci...

Well, here I am, with an update. For some strange, and inexplicable reason, and to which I can not attribute a cause, one day, I woke up with a changed attitude, and while I am unable to treat my parent as a child, yet, at least, I am able to say "no" to the old need to fill the need to be...

I remember many years ago coming across the "new age" belief that when someone was ill, that they "brought the disease upon themselves". I found that to be an extraordinarily non-compassionate point of view, not to mention judgmental, and I still do. In fact, I think it is an arr...

So, then. The conclusion one must inevitably come to, if this position is valid, is that, when one finds the answers to all of one's questions, that one ceases to question, indeed, finds it increasingly difficult to discuss or carry on dialogue other than "What is for lunch", and "how...

So, then, what do we gain from exchanging ideas? In particular, what do we gain by discussion with seemingly opposing perspectives? DO we gain anything, or is it an exercise in "I know more than you", or "I'm the king of the castle, and you're the dirty rascal?" (Remember that ga...

Carried further: Learning requires, in and of itself, a kind of stretching, or release of self, which can be perceived to be discomfort, if one doesn't understand the value to be gained from that experience. If you can remember what it was to be in school, and the enormous energy required to be atte...

I just stumbled across this site: you can read the book there, or you can order a CD from them with ALL the books they list - quite an archive.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

But this kind of logic, though reasonable, is also what cultish teachers purport. When the students are encouraged to relinquish their beliefs and substitute the teacher's, that's a double standard, and a precarious situation if the teacher's motives are less than pure. This can be a way to disempo...

You realize, of course, that the only reason a child doesn't take it personally, is that the child does not extend her concept of self to include her opinions, whereas, as adults, we increasingly identify ourselves with "what we think or believe". Not realizing, of course, that those belie...