Tag: Dzogchen
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The Misunderstood Eternal – 6: Mystical Traditions: Veiled Unions, Unspoken Eternity
Among the world’s religious traditions, it is often the mystical branches that come closest to touching the eternal. Stripped of ritual obligations, institutional boundaries, and political frameworks, the mystical path tends to turn inward, toward contemplation, inward transformation, and a direct encounter with what it names as the divine. Often expressed in metaphors of light,…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 6: Buddhism – Emptiness, Interdependence, and the Question of Appearance
Of all the great spiritual traditions, Buddhism stands as perhaps the most radical in its deconstruction of substance, self, and separateness. Where Western and Islamic metaphysics sought to secure a necessary foundation, Buddhism uncovered the groundlessness of all things. But is this negation a form of nihilism, or does it open toward a different kind…
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It Is What It Is 