The Beneficence of Evil

Is it really true, you ask, that evil—with all its attendant suffering and death—is nothing more than illusion? As you know very well, this is precisely what many spiritual teachers have claimed, both Eastern or Western. To use Medieval Christian language,...

Irreducible Goodness

I’m not sure I’d use the phrase “non-dual God”. God is God. Non-dualism has to do with our relationship with Him rather than with some sort of unusual conception of God. The question I was raising in class is whether we are fundamentally or...