Category Archives: Buddhism

Our sense of self is not a delusion. Instead, meditation reveals the self as constructed, fluid, and elastic.

Nirvana arises when we stop blocking the free flow of thought and sensation.

“No matter how assailed, anger need not arise. No matter what the pleasure, compulsive longing need not arise. No matter what the circumstances, a feeling of limitation need not arise.”

I am delighted with Michael Taft’s teachings about nonduality — the most precise and accessible I’ve found. Check out these links. 

Avoid the observer trap. See through the ego rather than destroy it. Don’t the experience into claims about reality. Keep practicing and attend to the tasks of daily life.

We can talk about nonduality in ways that prevent misunderstanding and point to the experience of it, beyond all words. 

“In this experience, the sense of being a witness or seer of things vanishes completely, and instead you feel yourself to be whatever thing you are beholding. You don’t see the mountain, you are the mountain. You don’t hear a bird, you are birdsong.”