Category Archives: Nonduality

In his essay “Is Now A Moment In Time?” Michel Bitbol talks about “. . . the pure referring ‘now’ from which everything is referred to.” “Everything” is this case refers to time as well. That is, in “the pure referring ‘now’” there is no time; time is also referred to, a signification arising inContinue reading “Is Now a Moment in Time?”

With respect to inner peace, the suggestion here is twofold. First, the world is forever an image of God which is endlessly partial and thus merely hints at God. For example, imagine that you see the Sistine Chapel but only through a narrow window. The size of the window only allows you to perceive aContinue reading “Inner Peace and Christ as Light”

Say that I take a picture of you, and set it next to you. Now I have you and an image of you. If I want to feed you – bake you bread, make you tea – I will not place sustenance before the photograph. If I want to hold you or walk with you,Continue reading “Self, Self-Image and God”

In “You Have to Be Two to Start: Rational Thoughts About Love” Ernst Von Glasersfeld makes an interesting observation which is that in order to experience love, “you have to be two.” That is, what is one has to construct an other – become two – and then be in relationship with that other inContinue reading “Love Begins With Two”

I want to talk a little about giving attention as an exercise by which we see through the distinctions we make to that which makes distinction possible or, if you like, the groundless ground from which all distinctions arises or “the Mind which caused all minds to be” (T-28.I.11:3), et cetera. It is natural toContinue reading “Distinctions and the Whole”

It seems as we look into our experience of living that we are free to adopt various means of looking into our experience of living, each of which may provide a slightly different perspective of and thus experience of living. That is to say, the way we look at our living affects our living whichContinue reading “Freedom is Always Relational”