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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The Source nor the Universe have come to tell you that they have created you. The mind, obsessed by the idea of causality, invents creation and then wonders, “Who is the creator?” The mind itself is the Creator. Even this is not true, for the created and its creator are one. The mind and the world are not separate. Understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind. All space and …

Anxiety as Teacher?

Seems we all have stories of how best to deal with anxiety and fear arising in the body. Those of us held hostage by chronic panic and anxiety sensations usually have compassion for others experiencing this cocktail of chemicals and hormones racing through the body. For years I was on a mission to learn and practice any tool that offered the promise of relief from panic and anxiety. As soon as I learned of a …

Self Inquiry 2022

January 3, 2022 Hello Satang Friends, and Happy New Year 2022! I’ve missed seeing you the last two years for our monthly gatherings 🙂 I hope you are well. I need your feedback about our monthly gatherings so we may plan for 2022.   Below is what feels right and what I am offering.  If others of our group wish to host, please let it be known! I feel we will be safe to resume our …

Dream of Opposites

Our human brains are amazing in the ability to name, claim, and label appearances and to compare one appearance to another.  We are convinced we are separate beings in a tangible world of eight billion other separate beings. In Truth, absolute Truth, not relative truth, there is only edgeless, empty, awareness appearing as this and that. This realization, this awakening, shocks the human perception and brain and plunges the long-held belief of being and existing …

Update on Saturday Satangs

All Saturday Satsangs are cancelled for 2021.  We will update this site in January about our gatherings for 2022.   Our self-inquiry gatherings are for ardent seekers of Truth.  We discuss and explore the nature of what is self-evident, here, now.  We expose and grok the illusory nature and appearance of the personal self and rest in the spaciousness of aware presence, just this, here, now. Many of us are searching for relief from the weight …

TAT Retreat Sept 11-12, 2021

I’m passing along this announcement for the upcoming TAT virtual retreat.  Love, Friendship, and the Return Home A Virtual TAT Spiritual Retreat Weekend September 11-12 2021 “Intentional self-inquiry is a conscious attempt to get congruent with what life’s trying to do for us. This could be described as going Home…So how do you go “Home” when you don’t know where it is…?”     ~Art Ticknor, Beyond Relativity, p. 107 Where did we come from? Where are we …

Eternity – Joseph Campbell

“Eternity isn’t some later time.  Eternity isn’t a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it.  And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.”  Joseph Campbell   According to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, time is just another dimension …