Recognise
Self-inquiry
Am I limited to this experience?
“There is no reaching the Self. If the Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not now and here”
Sunday, 18 October
Stay with it for three breaths. No answer is needed.
Breathe at your own pace.
Below: the teachers and their next gatherings. Continue
In Advaita Vedanta, the self and ultimate reality are understood as not separate. Its teachings explore what we take ourselves to be and how this understanding relates to life.
Here you can discover teachers of Advaita and related spiritual paths. Their language and approaches differ. The profiles and original sources offer an account of each teaching.
Recognise and Embody remain connected: inquiry can be embodied, and meeting experience can reveal spaciousness.
Today’s perspective: Freedom and intimacy.
Self-inquiry
Am I limited to this experience?
“There is no reaching the Self. If the Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not now and here”
Alchemy
Can I meet this experience fully?
“a sudden penetration into the true nature of being, and then a gradual embodiment of this realization on the level of body, mind, and personality.”
The profiles describe each teaching and cite original sources. The groups offer orientation, without recommendations or rankings.
All 66 published profiles, grouped by path.
Scripture, study and lineage
Inquiry in varied forms
Love, remembrance and service
Practice within a tradition
Meditation, insight and not-self
The next announced gatherings, each series once, in the local time of the event.
In person ECC Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
3 sessions: 10:00 · 13:00 · 16:00
Online
Starts 10:30, ends 12:30 · Local time Los Angeles (PDT)
Short sentences from many teachers, each beside their own words, and five questions on which they differ.
Read allNothing to reach. Just this.
If practice is making things harder, you may pause. Where to find support
Each day the page opens with another of the four perspectives.