Bob: Can anybody negate that knowingness? So again, we say start from the fact that you already are that. So we won’t go to the story or the spiel or all that, that’ll all come up in the questions, doubts or arguments that come up, in the explanations, be pointed out more and more clearly. [...]

There is nowhere we have to go, nothing we have to do, although lots of going and doing seem to happen. This apparent activity is just as it is without anything being wrong with it. It simply cannot make or create anything with regard to spirituality. At some point we are reoriented in our search [...]

This nondual sensibility is difficult to put into words, because it’s fundamentally the end of belief in description and the end of any primary focus on thought. Even though apparent thoughts and descriptions still come and go, the basic sense of existence is that of a totally mysterious happening automatically presenting itself. This isn’t a [...]

Within ‘the appearance of things’, there seems to be an over-arching theme about how you are a separate, limited entity. And within this theme there are many messages about how you need to gather, amass, and accumulate in order to find peace or happiness. What you ‘need to do’ is ‘to search for’ the specific [...]

It would seem that ‘personal suffering’ is the last thing anyone wants to give up. What am I without this ‘story of me’? The energy that is expressed everyday, in every major city in the world, expressed through the ‘personal drama’ could power up the city for a few hours probably. Is anything truly achieved [...]

Asked what is the major lesson of the spiritual teachings, I’d have to say that it is impermanence. As Ramana Maharshi points out, all forms (whether material or immaterial) arise then dissipate; they are impermanent. The actuality in which they originate and subside is infinite and eternal, and is itself without form. Thus, this ground [...]