Pratiyogin
In connection with my recent series of posts on the topic of whether ignorance is a separately existent entity or simply means ‘absence of knowledge’...
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Being: the bottom line
Since I am busy writing my next book (for a change), I have been looking through the past 25 years of written essays and reviews, looking for material that is not currently available anywhere. And...
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(Read Part 1) Another misleading claim is that “there’s no one bound and therefore no liberation from bondage.” This sounds very clever and obvious and is very likely to be accepted without question by...
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Waking Up
Here is another old book review, this one from just over 10 years ago. It is for the book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris.It is an even longer review than the last, so...
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Part 2 of the review of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris Read Part 1 Science Another problem which adds to the book’s confusion is the attempt to utilize science,...
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Part 3 of the review of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris Read Part 2 Other Religions and Non-duality It is not at all obvious why ‘religion’ should be so disparaged. He...
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Part 4 (conclusion) of the review of Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris Read Part 3 / Go to Part 1 Drugs Many pages are devoted to a discussion of Near Death Experiences,...
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This will be a multi-part post, triggered in part by Ramesam’s recent post ‘Liberation is Disembodiment’, following which I promised a separate post. First of all, I will repost an article on the...
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*** Read Part 1 *** There are also two significant dangers regarding the Neo-Advaita ‘movement’. Firstly, there is the clear possibility of charlatans who, having read a little or heard the fundamental...
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*** Read Part 2 *** *** Go to Part 1 *** Advaita refers to the unchanging reality by the Sanskrit term paramārtha and to the constantly changing appearance by vyavahāra. Within this phenomenal realm,...
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