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Churches, Temples, Silence and Sounds
Churches, temples, and in a more general sense the inner domains of sacred places are usually territories marked by silence. These are typically devot [ ... ]

The Jnani According to Advaita Vedanta
What exactly the characteristics are of the Jnani — the spiritual enlightened one — is a question often asked by Advaita Vedanta aspirants [ ... ]

Maya | Illusions and the Veil of Spiritual Ignorance
The Sanskrit word Maya in the religious and spiritual sense can mean illusion, delusion, unreality, trick, earthly ignorance, phantasm, attachment, or [ ... ]

Neo-Advaita | The Effort of Attaining Effortlessness
One of the tenets of Neo-Advaita — and in a broader sense all nondual practices such as Zen Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, or Dzogchen — is th [ ... ]

Reflections on Zen Master Jinen | Zazen Sitting Meditation
In 2014, I stumbled upon a short video titled A Teaching From Zen Master Jinen posted on YouTube by El-Branden Brazil. It’s a little questions a [ ... ]

What Is Spiritual Enlightenment? | Paths to Spiritual Awakening
“As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the ‘ [ ... ]

Nature Connectedness | Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Bonding
The term Nature Connectedness refers to the degree in which people include Nature as an inseparable, intrinsic part of their identity. In a more gener [ ... ]

Silence of the Mind, Meditation, and Self-Realization
Achieving silence of the mind has always been a primary goal — or perhaps rather requisite — of an appropriate and successful meditation p [ ... ]

Finding the Truth behind Appearances
To realize that all truths are no-truths is a first, essential step to getting rid of them. When you’ve logically asserted the truth of no-truths, t [ ... ]

Living Quest – Searching for Truth and Self-Realization
I’d like to talk a bit about this “search,” this quest for Enlightenment or Self-Realization, because the real quest, the real searc [ ... ]