Author: James Swartz

Depressed Person: “Everything is infinitely pointless, nobody cares how you feel, especially not the utterly cold and indifferent clockwork that drives our nightmare universe,...

Dear Ramji,After today’s satsang, I kept thinking about the relationship between Yoga and Vedanta. You know that I’m a full-time yoga teacher and have...

Inquirer: I was hesitant to write to you, partly because I assume you are very busy, partly because I do not know if or...

Fetfree: You actually can experience non-existence. And you did. If you ever blacked out for hours but it was a blink for you, closing...

UPDATE Fire near Trout Lake! It happens regularly. July and August is fire season around the world. Only covid shut us down so far...

Objector: I respectfully disagree. If life is a zero sum game then there is no true creativity, no true novelty. No where to go...

When you say THERE IS SUFFERING, you make it real. Stop giving it a name and just be with it. James: I haven’t had...

Inquirer: I know the physical world doesn’t stand by itself. I understand it just fine. I know there is no we in terms of...

Dopededicated to my best friend Johnny Bondage You will havesurvived againalive and kickingto the end when a couplet bysay AlexanderPope makes a snake aropeyou...

This sentence reveals a certain confusion. Illusions definitely exist or you wouldn’t use the word. We don’t have words for things that don’t exist,...