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THE TEACHER, THE STUDENT AND THE LIGHT
The Seeker and What Is Sought Every search begins with a lack. A person feels that something is missing. They may not know what it is. It can come as restlessness, as grief, as a question that will not go away, or as a sudden moment of beauty that then fades. This feeling is the…
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THE PSYCHIC NATURE OF MAN AND LIGHT
Light and the Inner Life The word psychic comes from the Greek psyche, which means soul or breath. Before it came to mean mind reading and fortune telling, it meant the inner life of a person: thought, feeling, memory, and the sense of being someone. So when we ask about the psychic nature of man…
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WHERE LANGUAGE CAME FROM
From the awareness beyond thought and words, known through the light of consciousness and love, language was born in human mouths. Over a long arc of evolution, we are still searching for the words to express the relationship between that awareness and the word. Part One. Why Begin Here This section rests on the awareness…
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LIGHT, LOVE AND THE LIMITS OF UNDERSTANDING
What Light Is Light holds a special place in both physics and spirituality. To see why, it helps to look at what physics actually says about it. For most of history, people thought of light as something that simply shows us the world. In the nineteenth century, James Clerk Maxwell discovered that light is a…
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HOME IN AWARENESS
The Buddha taught anatta, that there is no lasting self built from the five skandhas. Form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness: none of these, alone or together, is a fixed thing that owns experience or stands apart from it. What we call a self is a composition, and compositions come apart. In meditation this is…
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GOING DEEPER
A Note Before You Begin What follows is one person’s perspective, offered rather than argued. I have come, through my own life and my own looking, to a single conviction: that beneath every tradition, every teacher, every serious attempt anyone has ever made to look honestly at reality, there is one and the same thing…
