Dear all,

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Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is 'try'. Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the personality, with its addictions and obsessions. Don't ask how, it cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed. If you persevere, there can be no failure. What matters supremely is ( Read more... )

After reading this synopsis of Nisargadatta's teachings by Albert McGuire last week, I was reminded that my great friend Jerry had once edited a collection of Nisargadatta's teachings pertaining directly to the 'I Am' that he called 'The Nisargadatta Song of I Am' (link). I created a shorter, abridged version of that piece for the purpose of ( Read more... )

Today I'm excerpting from the first appendix of the seminal book I Am That (Amazon.com | Amazon.ca), by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (?-1981), the illumined shopkeeper in India who became an early Western guru in contemporary Advaita Vedanta, or what we refer to here as Nonduality. The version I own is the most commonly available one online, first ( Read more... )