When you just watch what’s going on with your seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thoughting, feeling and your body-mind in general — it becomes very clear that you are not the things you se…
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When I started just looking at what’s going on, I first noticed the cyclic nature of all phenomena. Just about everything had a beginning, middle, and end. Whether it was breath, or heartbeat, or thou…
As Turiya, what is the purpose of life? The purpose of a body-mind-personality system is easy to define in terms of goals, ambitions, aspirations and so on. But, as Turiya, what really is the purpose…
When I take a close look at anything, it seems to dissolve and eventually disappear. Behind everything, there is just emptiness. There is no solid stuff. It’s all empty. I understand that this can be…
We live in the age of self-improvement. Therapy, trauma-healing, productivity hacks, and endless self-help advice promise to make us better, happier, more fulfilled versions of ourselves. But have you…
The 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” unpacked so many complex philosophical ideas in a way that complete non-philosophers could comprehend and munch on them. I clearly notice a fundamental shift in my un…
Many spiritual traditions say that enlightenment reveals the world as an illusion and lets you see true reality. But what does that really mean? The Mandukya Upanishad describes four states of human e…
Introduction Recently my older brother stumbled upon a AI documentation generator called DeepWiki, and shared a full documentation of my Scrite project he generated using it. DeepWiki can parse the so…
On my morning walk in the park today, I had this very surreal knowing that my mind was I was reduced to a mere witness of this whole show. Yet, oddly, it did not feel like a reduction. It felt like th…
In our everyday experience, we often think of ourselves as a separate “Self”-a permanent entity that is distinct from everything else in the world, including other people and things. This sense of sep…
Memory is whatever the mind brings up. Hypothetically, the mind can create random images, thoughts, and bodily sensations that feel like memories. Even when the body-mind system is working perfectly,…
The term māyā is often translated as “illusion”—a powerful force that makes the dualistic world appear real, even though only the non-dual Brahman truly exists. However, I prefer to interpret māyā not…
Awareness is always of what has already happened. I become aware of what I see only after the seeing has occurred.I become aware of what I hear only after the hearing has happened.I become aware of wh…
When I look at an object, like the cup on the table next to my laptop right now, the visual feel of the object is entirely driven by the physical object itself. In this case, I am not imagining or mak…
I think the purpose of meditation matters a lot. If we are after enlightenment, then its pursuit becomes a craving in itself and that ends up being a hindrance. However, if our intention is to end suf…
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