Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The core teaching of the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta, as espoused by Shankara, is that All is One, there is no not-One.

It is only what he called illusion that prevents us Knowing this Basic Truth, and living accordingly.

This illusion, and all the countless ones superimposed on it, arising out of it, are

It was the example of Dr. Leadley, my invalid grandmother’s general practioner, that determined me to be a doctor, to be like him.

She was a cardiac cripple living in a constant state of borderline heart failure. What could he do in terms of modern medicine? Merely adjust her digitalis dosage. But

I believe that if there is a reason for me to meditate, it is to become Aware, hopefully one day Ever Aware, of the linkage to the Spirit World and beyond to the Force Divine, The Great Spirit, the Determiner of All.

One particular morning I was meditating in our bedroom,

When I ask for an example of a good marriage, I’ve yet to have someone propose his or her parents’. (In fact, few can give any good example!

Apart from the obvious problem of the lack of a positive marriage model – or rather, the presence of the very opposite – to emulate, there is another problem.

For

Empathy: to feel the suffering.
Sympathy: to take it on.

A healer must always be empathetic, but never sympathetic, for then he is as disempowered as the sufferer.

To empathize is to become one with the sufferer.
To sympathize is to become the sufferer.

A sympathetic surgeon who cries as he cuts the patient’s skin would be useless. On the

It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.

I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.

And to us all, our mother is God – as God on earth.  For she was, and still is, our holiest intimation of the Divine.

The way to God is

I love the SP root. It gave rise to so many words, most of them with a common, central meaning. Consider a few: spurt, sprinkle, spark, sperm, sputum, spit. All with the idea of something vital being projected from a live source to a destination which it may vitalize: the spark igniting the kindling.

A general note on what I think I mean: Soul: the Deepest, Holiest part of an individual’s self, which, being of the self, dies with the rest. It is our Jen, our Humanity, our Matrophilia. Spirit: The spirit dwells within us throughout our lives, being incarnated at our conception. And on our death it returns to the Spirit World, to be reincarnated again and again as it has been countless times in the past – and as it will be in the future.

The only knowledge really worth knowing dwells not in the mind but in the heart. This I capitalize, as It deserves – Knowledge. And this, the Knowledge, is of Belovedness.

There must be an unconscious association between our words (and therefore our concepts) breath and breast, as their etymologies are so close that they must have been derived from a single primitive source.