Spiritual seekers who aim to go beyond duality often fancy that, at the end of the journey, they are going to experience reality altogether differently. That’s right and wrong at the same time. Even before, there are many situations that allow us to experience non-duality, which is in and through everything. Reality being non-dual, it would be quite surprising if …
Lets look at the play of the universe. Pauli’s exclusion principle, fundamental to quantum mechanics, basically states that two electrons can never occupy the same space at the same time. As all matter in the universe contains electrons, it means that what we call life (including the play of the lifeless) is nothing but an ever-whirling dance: a dance of …
This is an invitation to reflect on the reality of one’s self identity. This is not about unhooking the identity from feelings, thoughts or situations, which are different for each of us. Rather it is about the basic identification with what we call ‘I’ or ‘self’ – an identification that is the same for almost everyone. Most people say „I“ …
There are as many spiritual journeys as there are spiritual seekers. Nevertheless, here I would like to look at the spiritual journey itself and the stages most seekers pass through. The spiritual search starts off with the insight that the happiness that one tries to attain usually through success, money, human relations and pleasures of varied kind cannot be attained …
The last essay finished with the words: Now I can direct my attention to the one and only thing I really lack, namely the knowledge of what I am anyway already. And how do I do this? I turn to those, who do not seem to lack this knowledge any more. Only a teacher who knows about our true non-duality …
In our linked up world we have access to almost all possible information at almost any moment. In spiritual regard this is sometimes a blessing, but sometimes not. For the one who knows exactly what he needs it is a blessing. For the one who does not know it leads into a maze – which is largely due to the …
Advaita seekers in the West want to find out whether it is true that they are neither body nor mind, but in truth are one, eternal, free and all-pervasive. Most of all they are interested in the answer to the question: „Who or what am I?“ They do not really care what the world is. But once the true import …
For many spiritual seekers in the West God is a difficult issue; it is often one of the reasons, why they have turned Eastwards for spiritual inspiration. Why is the idea of God such a problem? Primarily due to the history of Christianity and other Western religions. Their concept of God is dualistic – man and God are forever different …
Most spiritual seekers long for stillness, first for stillness in their surroundings, then increasingly for stillness in their own minds. In our hectic world, flooded by an unending wave of information, constantly requested to have instant recall of millions of names and facts, our minds are hardly able to relax and switch off any more. That is why meditation is …
How on earth does man actually come to ask himself the question „Who I am?“ Is it not obvious who one is? After all, I have my own name, a date of birth, an address, an individual body, an individual kind of thinking, an individual psychological structure, individual likes and dislikes etc. There is no other person with exactly this …
The world view of most seekers in the West is pervaded by popular psychology – a mixture of psychology and esotericism – on which they base their behaviour. Preferred concepts vary from seeker to seeker, but there are some things that most agree about. 1. I should take care of myself; I do this best by fulfilling as many of …
Everyone knows this question – asking themselves occasionally, often or constantly: ‚What is the right thing to do?‘. Each time when a decision has to be made is an opportunity for this question to surface. Everyday decisions: Eat now or later Take line 17 or line 19 Give something to that beggar or not Wear the red t-shirt or the …
In our secular society growing old is a disaster, particularly – but not only – for women. As a consequence, in this part of the world nobody is old. Everyone is ’still young‘, maybe already ‚a little older‘ or of ’senior citizen age‘, but by no means old. In this essay it is about determining why this is so and …
Interestingly, the word ‚dis-identification‘ exists neither in German nor in English. Even though it will not appear in the following text, I like to use it because dis-identification – the dissolution of one’s identifications – is an indispensable key for the spiritual seeker. First of all: What actually is identification? The literal translation makes clear that in identification the identity …
Spiritual seekers should be able to distinguish the essential from inessential in order not to waste time and energy with inessentials on their journey. Hence, the ability to discriminate is basic. What exactly is it that helps us discriminate? Our senses inform us about the fact that a zebra is something other than a fish. The fact that the feeling …
