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Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Pensiero non duale e coraggio dei samurai
L’epistemologia buddhista inclina alla coltivazione di un pensiero non duale. Finché si ragiona per opposti non si coglierà mai il nucleo della realtà. I samurai buddhisti lo concepiranno nei termini della loro prospettiva esistenziale: la vita e la morte sono strettamente…
L'enigma è il quotidiano
I versi dell’haiku non sono scelti a caso, ma esprimono la difficile coesistenza degli opposti. Del resto, parliamo di difficoltà solo perché siamo troppo attaccati alle polarità né sappiamo rinunciarvi. In realtà l’haiku non cela nulla, anzi dischiude il senso della vita. Ci…
Esistenza e non esistenza in Dogen
Il Dharma del Buddha è ovunque: questa la constatazione di esordio. Poiché la Legge (dharma, ho) riguarda tutte le cose, la natura buddhica attecchisce in tutte le cose. È un assunto del Grande Veicolo. Le cose esistono, e si traccia una distinzione tra i Buddha e gli esseri…
Il ciclo vita/morte è il nirvana
«Cercate soltanto di capire che lo stesso ciclo vita/morte è il nirvana. Non esiste qualcosa come un ciclo vita/morte da evitare; non esiste qualcosa come il nirvana da cercare. Soltanto quando avrete capito questo, vi libererete dal ciclo vita/morte.»8 Come va affrontata la…
Samsara (definizione)
Samsara. Il ciclo o ruota delle nascite e delle morti, quindi delle reincarnazioni. Lo si considera sede della sofferenza, ma nel Grande Veicolo è equiparato al nirvana. Come dire che l’inferno è il paradiso. Termine sanscrito.
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Advaita means not-two
Over the intervening years I had been surprised by the increasing number of people who were coming to feel the same way. Not only had Buddhism made steady inroads into Western culture, but so had the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta, of nondual philosophy. Probably Ramana…
The witness as pure consciousness
To what natural state will we revert? To the detached purely attentive consciousness, which has always registered everything we have ever experienced. To what Indian religion calls the witness—that is, the presence of consciousness itself in each individual. Pure consciousness…
Waking up just long enough to know I'm asleep
WHAT “THE ACID” (as I was coming to think of it) had done was to blow my so-called spiritual trip out of the water. I saw that Advaita philosophy had become just a way of coasting along, vaguely assuring myself that I was consciousness itself from time to time. It had no…
Not-two with my underpants
When I came to I was standing beside the bath, with no recollection of how I had managed to get there. Nor did I have any idea what to do next. Drying myself proved impossible because I couldn’t figure out what was me and what was not. Perhaps hell has its own unio mystica. The…
Meltdown in God
As I write this, true recall of what I felt, the existential suchness of it, has gone. But like the other no-boundary states that summer, what I do remember perfectly is its overwhelming self-evidence. I was everything. It was as simple as that. Nor was this something I had…
Driving through myself
I LOOKED UP THE passage, the one I had remembered under the holly, from Suzanne Segal’s Collision with the Infinite: In the midst of a particularly eventful week, I was driving north to meet some friends when I suddenly became aware that I was driving through myself. For years…
Standing apart as the pure witness
Again I found a luminously clear reflection of what had happened in Nisargadatta Maharaj. Consciousness coming apart from its identification with matter plays a crucial role in I Am That. Speaking of meditation, Nisargadatta says: When the mind is quiet, we come to know…
Osho's fourth body
Earlier we saw that Advaita Vedanta was putting down roots in the West and beginning to develop into a new nondualistic philosophy. This is the context in which I’d like—very briefly—to prospect a possible psychedelic/spiritual interface, particularly in terms of the two…
Always already free
It was late at night, and the young Adi Da wandered through the streets, intoxicated by what he had glimpsed: I saw that we are, at any moment, always and already free. I knew that I was not lacking anything I needed yet to find, nor had I ever been without such a thing. The…
I was everything
Turning a corner in the path, Step 4 struck with blinding clarity. I knew exactly what I was. I was everything. There was the same huge influx of energy as the previous summer. The same astonishment that all my life I could have overlooked the utterly obvious. The same roaring…
I am everything I behold
“People may sense internal organs and physiological processes usually kept out of consciousness.” That was exactly what had just happened to me when I felt I was seeing the internal structure of the eye. Then I began to wonder whether the same mechanism couldn’t have been…
Ram Dass overlooked Ramana Maharshi
To the best of my knowledge, he never defined more precisely what he meant by “catalyst” or “door opener,” nor mentioned whether he had explored the possibility of using psychedelics and awareness practice in tandem. More significantly, he overlooked another teacher who, in…
Who are you?
Who are you? Ramana asked. Just that. Who are you? Find the quick of your sense of identity, of your most intimate sense of you-ness, and see what you consist of for yourself. “You are awareness,” he said. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no…