Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Pure intransitive awareness alone is real consciousness and what actually exists

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In section 16.1 of A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications Robert Lawrence Kuhn quoted some extra...
Tuesday, 2 February 2021

In what sense is it true to say ‘everything is one’?

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A friend wrote to me recently, ‘I think I got this part wrong: “Everyone is oneself”. You would say I am saying “Many is one”, right? What w...
Thursday, 31 January 2019

To understand consciousness can we rely upon the observations and theories of neuroscience?

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Recently a friend wrote to me saying that he was caring for his mother, who was in the final stages of dying because of a brain tumour, and ...
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Saturday, 18 February 2017

What is the difference between pure awareness and the ego, and how are they related?

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A friend recently wrote asking me to explain the difference between awareness and consciousness and how consciousness is connected to the eg...
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Wednesday, 31 August 2016

What is the ‘self’ we are investigating when we try to be attentively self-aware?

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In a comment that he wrote today on my previous article, Is it incorrect to say that ātma-vicāra is the only direct means by which we can ...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015

What is cidābhāsa, the reflection of self-awareness?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Can we experience what we actually are by following the path of devotion ( bhakti mārga )? , an ...
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Monday, 6 April 2015

How we can confidently dismiss the conclusions of materialist metaphysics

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In one of my recent articles, All phenomena are just a dream, and the only way to wake up is to investigate who is dreaming , I wrote: More...
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Friday, 20 February 2015

Self-investigation and body-consciousness

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A friend recently sent me a PDF copy of The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and referring to the sixth chapter of it, ‘The Inner Body’, he w...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

The connection between consciousness and body

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A friend wrote to me recently saying that in a German book on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu called Über das Selbst (‘About the Self’) the author has wri...
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Friday, 15 August 2014

Establishing that I am and analysing what I am

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In my previous article, We must experience what is, not what merely seems to be , I wrote: ‘I’ definitely does exist, because ‘I’ is what e...
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Thursday, 19 June 2014

Is consciousness a product of the mind?

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In a comment on one of my recent articles, Self-investigation, effort and sleep , Venkat wrote: May I ask for your comments on the follow...
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Sunday, 15 June 2014

Why do we not experience the existence of any body or world in sleep?

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In a comment on my previous article, What do we actually experience in sleep? , Wittgenstein wrote with reference to my ‘gap’ argument that...
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Thursday, 12 June 2014

What do we actually experience in sleep?

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A friend wrote to me recently asking me to further clarify what I had written in Chapter 2 of Happiness and the Art of Being about sleep ...
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Friday, 25 April 2014

Scientific research on consciousness

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A few months ago an academic psychologist whose current research is exploring ‘the conscious experience’ wrote to me inviting me to give fe...
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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Japa of ‘I am’ as an aid to self-attentiveness

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After I wrote my previous article, ‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive , a series of interesting comments have been posted...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

‘Holy indifference’ and the love to be self-attentive

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In reply to a friend who wrote to me asking for some advice concerning the psychological effects of some health problems that he was experie...
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Sunday, 16 August 2009

Thinking, free will and self-attentiveness

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The following is a reply that I recently wrote to a friend: Regarding your final sentence, ‘We are only given the thoughts that we are allow...
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Monday, 27 July 2009

Self-attentiveness is nirvikalpa – devoid of all differences or variation

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A friend recently wrote to me suggesting: ... Indeed Nan Yar? contains everything we need to know and I would be very grateful if you would...
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Sunday, 12 July 2009

‘Tracing the ego back to its source’

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: I am stuck at a point where I feel I need help ... While reading Sri Ramana Maharshi’s work and Talks ...
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Svarupa-dhyana and svarupa-darsana

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A friend recently wrote to me asking: Does svarupa-dhyana , atma-chintana and atma-smarana mean focusing attention on the first thought ‘I...
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