Tag: meditation
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If All Human Activity Stopped Tomorrow
A Reflection on Sovereignty, Power and the Return to True Nature Consider, for a moment, the Highland Clearances. Between 1750 and 1860, across the mountains and glens of Scotland, an entire people were removed from land they had inhabited for thousands of years. Not by conquest in the battlefield sense. Not by plague or famine…
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Consciousness, Self, and the Wisdom of Not Knowing: A Comparative Essay on Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen
Two of the world’s most sophisticated non-dual philosophical traditions, Kashmir Shaivism and Tibetan Dzogchen, arrive at strikingly similar descriptions of ultimate reality while diverging sharply on one fundamental question: whether that reality can be described as a self. Kashmir Shaivism, emerging in ninth-century Kashmir through thinkers such as Vasugupta and Abhinavagupta, posits that the ground…
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The Ocean of Heartmind
Some realisations arrive quietly, through years of practice and study. Others arrive in a single moment, written in red on your forehead.I was in Hampi, India — an ancient sacred site of extraordinary power, where vast boulders rise from the earth like the bones of some primordial world. Walking through one of the temples, I…
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