Tim's Advaita-Blog

Is existence ‘nice’? We’d like to think so, wouldn’t we? But look around you – pleasure and pain cancel to net nothing, and existence simply IS.

The ‘ness’ extension indicates a quality rather than a statement of existence. Beingness is the essence of Universal Awareness, and I Amness the subjective noticing of the fact of one’s own existence.

When you realise yourself to be a grain of sand on infinity’s shore, all of which is the Self, you’ll realise that I Amness is totally dependent on, a product of, Beingness.

Isaac Shapiro is a living Advaita teacher, who was told by his teacher H W L Poonja to teach in his own right. Isaac did so – mainly in Europe. I visited several of his Satsangs – this article relates a few aspects of how I experienced his presence.

The Mr. Rubin song, by Lesley Duncan, reminds us not to forget love when we try to shape events on earth. It was witten 50 years ago, but its message is still highly relevant – meaning we haven’t changed much since then. This article shows that stepping out of the judgemental attitude is the only way for you to avoid subjective suffering.

You can only feel alone if you ascribe to the illusion of being a separate individual. When you drop this incorrect view, the whole question of being alone does not even arise. Drop this illusion by getting Enlightened.

A discussion on how to improve the microbiota of my gut – and how it turned into a surprising spiritual insight on how the Divine can work in everyday life.

A concept from some books by Sir Terry Pratchett: First sight is when you see what is actually there, rather than what you want or expect to see. Second thoughts are those you have about what you are thinking, i.e. a kind of self-monitoring to catch prejudiced, conditioned or simply unhelpful or nasty thinking.

Monotheism says there is one God, all-knowing, all-powerful and present everywhere. In fact there is only Awareness and Consciousness, respectively the creator and the shaper of all manifestation.

A migration of butterflies, or a flock of birds flying, are the manifestation of a pattern in Consciousness. In humans, such impulses from broader swathes of Consciousness are very often drowned out by the cacophony of thoughts in small mind.

Neale Donald Walsh asked Eckhart Tolle how to come to presence (no-mind) in everyday life. Neither man spoke about total self-acceptance – the awakened state, so this article explains that alternative to let go of subjective suffering.