The Great Teaching is very simple. It is so simple that most overlook it, even when given to them freely. They complicate it with ideas and concepts, with prejudice and fear. They believe they are not worthy of it and so delay their acceptance of it. This is not their fault – they do what […]
What is the difference between dreams and reality? One obvious answer is that we wake up from dreams but we don’t wake up from reality. But does the dreamed person in our dreams ever wake up from the dream? Or does their ‘reality’ just end for them? One minute they are living inside their reality […]
I was listening to the Radiolab podcast this morning and, yet again, was amazed by their story. This episode is about living in the moment. It’s 15 minutes long. Enjoy.
(LEFT to RIGHT: Chrissy, Duke, Bob, Cameron) As some of you already know, I was fortunate to be pointed in the direction of non-duality by “Sailor” Bob Adamson when I was 18 years old. While we were in Melbourne over the last week, we caught up with Bob on four occasions and had lunch with […]
Ask most people if they have free will (defined here as “the ability to think and act outside of the laws of cause and effect”) and they will tell you that they do. Ask them to describe in detail how they create a thought and they cannot. After reflection, some will accept that thoughts appear […]
New Scientist is getting on the bandwagon with their series “The Great Illusion Of Self“. This intuitive sense of self is an effortless and fundamental human experience. But it is nothing more than an elaborate illusion. Under scrutiny, many common-sense beliefs about selfhood begin to unravel. Some thinkers even go as far as claiming that […]
I got a very rare email from Sailor Bob himself this morning… I think this is first email he’s sent me in ten years! Anyway, he sent me this video which I think will blow your mind. I chatted with Bob on the phone last week about the scientific versus the mystical approach to non-duality […]
If you’ve ever spent five minutes around Advaita (translation ‘non-duality’, from Advaita Vedanta, a school of Hindu philosophy dating from the 5th century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism), you’ll have heard people say that your true nature is awareness or consciousness. What do Advaitans really mean when they talk about “awareness” and “consciousness”? Those words typically refer to something that happens inside the […]