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Advaita Vedanta

Only By Courtesy: Sankara’s Definition of Real

December 16, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Federer Nadal shaking hands

As of late, I’ve been enjoying a pair of books, toggling back-and-forth between them in a way that feels quite interesting and enriching. One of them—Insight into Emptiness by Khensur Jampa Tegchok—harkens from the Buddhist Madhamakaya tradition. The other—The Seven Great Untenables by John Grimes—expresses the view of Advaita Vedanta. So, I read a bit from one, then a bit from the other—as …

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Practice Notes: Distinction and Separation

November 15, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

golden stiletto

There are so many interesting things to explore! And I’ve explored quite a few, thus far in my life—following the thread of my enthusiasm, what piques my interest, lights my fire. But in comparison to all possible things to explore—all the phenomena past, present, and future, in this universe and all others—clearly the explorations accomplished via this one body-mind are miniscule: an estimate …

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Practice Notes: Carrot Juice, Grapefruit & Eggs

April 15, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

goose with golden egg

Groceries Needed just a few things the other day—carrot juice, grapefruit, and eggs—so headed over to Trader Joe’s. Now, of course, I ended up with a few other things also in my shopping basket, but still a fairly small haul, overall. Scanned for a short line at the registers—and spotted one completely open. Yeah! Placed my basket next to the clerk—a young guy, late-twenties, maybe. …

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Realisms Interlinked: A Preview

March 30, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Bruce Lee Hall of Mirrors

I’ve been dipping into the rather dense but fascinating book Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects, and Other Subjects by Arindam Chakrabarti—a scholar who, with great facility, straddles the worlds of Indian and (analytic) Western philosophy. Mr. Chakrabarti’s overall project is to propose and defend a form of metaphysical realism. And while I—from my lay-woman’s perspective—remain agnostic …

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Practice Notes: Untouched & Deeply Felt

January 6, 2022 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Butterfly cocoon on black

It’s been a month now, at least, since I first opened this Word file, and typed in the title—Practice Notes: Untouched & Deeply Felt. I expected that (as is generally the case) I’d return, within the next day or two, to complete the essay. Yet that impulse, until today, just never arrived. Somehow, for a long time, nothing else was needed. Somehow, the title in and of itself (with fewer …

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Practice Notes: Knowing, Being, Seeing

November 29, 2021 by Beth Reninger Leave a Comment

Avatar movie scene: I See You

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from The Little Prince What I’ve been feeling most curious about, as of late, is the meaning of “seeing” and “being seen”—both in relation to the human organism and in terms of our essential identity as Pure …

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