From a Reader (R): R: I also read with interest the postings by both of you at Randall’s blog site, particularly your light bubbly words (It’s Very Gentle). It is quite clear and I can easily see the fact of what you say. I address you this mail, however, out of some genuine concerns and NOT to pick an argument. VF: I'm going to attempt to respond to your note. Thank you for writing. I hope what I say might be somewhat helpful. I understand your question and the struggle it produces and struggled with the same concerns and questions for years. I appreciate ...
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In this blog I would like to highlight the Vedantic perspective and provide a summary of the key Vedantic philosophies. Vedanta is the great wisdom tradition of India that goes back to at least 1500 BC. Authors are the great rishis who spent several eras of time thinking about various questions and developed sophisticated philosophies to explain the meaning of life. During the 1st millennium of common era the people in the Indian subcontinent began to discard the simple teachings and stories of Gods and miraculous mythologies and the first level of God. Survival became easy and relatively more organized. Decided that the human ...
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This is a copy of the letter I sent to Annette Nibley as an update to our last conversation. I'm posting it here because I think it provides some explanation of what "getting it" has been like here. While I would love to tell you that energy has been flowing through my body and exploding out of the top of my head and that everything is glowing, that hasn't been the case; and yet, something is very different. hi annette - here is the update we discussed. i really don't know what to say. it is utterly obvious that this open, clear awareness is ...
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Why are you reading this? If you're similar to me, it is because you're searching for something - you may not even know what it is. All you know is that "this" - whatever "this" is - can't be it. While you may not realize it, you believe the answer to everything is always around the next corner, on the next page, in the next book about awareness or nonduality or enlightenment...it will all become clear after reading the next post, viewing the next movie, after the next conversation with the next nondual teacher. I know. Me, too. I am writing this in the ...
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Hinduism is probably one of the oldest religions that is still practiced by over 800 million people in India. The term Hindu was coined by the moslems to refer to the people from the Indus valley. Study of Hinduism is often very complicated since new ideas evolved without discarding the older ideas that are not relevant or had been discarded. As one author on Hinduism put it, "Hinduism can be best related to a collector who keeps collecting things without discarding the old." In this blog my objective is to stick to the basic tenets of Hinduism and not delve into the details. There ...
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