James M. Corrigan, Ph.D.

Unsaying

The Irrefutable Fact of Now

This “now” that we talk of is the edge of eternity, which is always present, and in which all things that happen thereby become present.

Commonplace Malevolence

Has Our Malevolence Towards One Another Grown To Become So Systemic, And Pathologic, That It Is Now Just A Given In Our Lives? Has our malevolence towards one another grown to become so systemic, and pathologic, that it is now just a given in our lives?

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In the Servitude of Science

Constructive science shifts the scale of studied action beyond our ability to experience directly, understand, or to use wisely what we know.

Enlightenment is neither a state, nor a process — it is a ‘merit badge’ granted by others

There is a ‘joke’ that circulates among some meditation circles about enlightenment being something that one believes is attainable — for…

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The Danger Inherent in Modern Secular Meditation

Secular meditation is taken from ancient spiritual traditions, but jettisons their profound wisdom.

Discussions

Plato On The Necessarily Nondual Nature Of Reality

Plato Explained That Reality Is Necessarily A Nondual Whole, And That The Appearances Are Proof That This Is So.

Unsaying

On The Limen of Poetic Being

A Poem

Lifting Water From the Well

A Poem

Unsaying

Beyond Concepts, Begone Concepts

Somewhere along the way, the understanding that something is “beyond concepts” got very confused.

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Loosening the Chains of the Conceptual and the Intelligible

An understanding will always separate us from the truth, because an understanding creates a something-that-is-understood.

Tradition

Mystery of The Four Elements Sound Practice

Inner Spontaneous Sound Is Not A Contingent Or Compounded Evanescent Phenomenon  —  This Is Why All Buddhas Reach Enlightenment By Using It

Tradition

Inner Spontaneous Sound Meditation Practices

Inner Spontaneous Sound Leads Directly To A Definitive Experience Of The Nature Of Mind, And This Is Its Unique Excellence