Tag: philosophy
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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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