“Islamic Non-Dualism: The Sufi Poetry of al-Shuhstari” – Filip HOLM | LET’S TALK RELIGION

This episode is a sort of remake of an earlier one I did on al-Shushtari a few years back, with some added content. Join me as we explore on of the most fascinating Sufi poets in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te-ohX1qfHs Translations of poems and the Baghdad Treatise are from the works of Lourdes Maria Alvarez. Translations from…

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“Non-Duality and the Mystery of Consciousness” – Peter RUSSELL

What is non-duality? What do we mean by consciousness? Does it really exist? What is reality? Is there any thing "out there"? Why don't we see consciousness in the material world? What do we mean by "I"? Why is any of this important? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ0YFoUcY0s From the deep pools of Eastern wisdom, to the fast-paced rapids…

“Only burgeois suckers put hope in the future” – Alan WATTS

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. R. RORTY, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tG7aOe4tk There are three classes of people in…

“Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution” (introduction) – David R. LOY

Now that Buddhism has come to the West, how are they changing each other? Half a century ago the British historian Arnold Toynbee predicted that their encounter would be a major event in world history. According to one account he even claimed that the arrival of Buddhism in the West “may well prove to be…