Pip: If you have ever stared at the ocean and thought, “yes, this explains everything,” you may already be halfway through a Dippack Mistri post. Mara: This episode covers one extended piece of philosophical writing — Vedantic metaphors, what they actually point to, and where they run out of road. Pip: Let’s start with theContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE METAPHORS OF VEDANTA”
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Podcast Episode: Wisdom of a Cherry Tree
Pip: If you have ever walked past a cherry tree and thought, nice fruit, moving on — Dippack Mistri is here to suggest you missed the entire sermon. Mara: That is exactly the territory this episode covers — one tree, one garden, and what a season of blooming, feeding, and bare winter branches has toContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Wisdom of a Cherry Tree”
Podcast Episode: Who Am I
Pip: There’s a question that’s been asked for thousands of years, and Dippack Mistri just sat down and wrote about it like it was the most natural thing in the world — which, depending on your answer, it might be. Mara: This episode follows one post into some of the oldest territory in contemplative philosophyContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Who Am I”
Who Am I
Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi revealed, ‘WHO AM I?’ The gross body (Anamaya kosha), which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus: chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and semen), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs (Jnanendriyas), viz., the sense of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz., sound,Continue reading “Who Am I”
Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA
Pip: There is a question that has occupied mystics, philosophers, and at least one very patient dog — what is bliss, really? Mara: Dippack Mistri takes that question seriously, and today we follow the thread through the heart of Vedantic philosophy, a pilgrimage to Tiruvannamalai, and what it means to find the Absolute not inContinue reading “Podcast Episode: THE BLISS OF SAT-CHIT-ANANDA”