No Longer I

You’ve come to realize, you say, that despite your best intentions your motives for spiritual work remain largely “ego-based”. It’s doubtless important to have noted this fact, but I wouldn’t brood about it. After all, Christ Himself...

The Despotism of the Eye

Be very careful: discrimination (viveka) between Ātma and Māyā, or the Real and illusory, is a good deal trickier than you may have realized. It’s easy to make the mistake of supposing that the two terms are somehow parallel and thus equally real, even though...

The Oxford Comma

I’m glad you liked Eats, Shoots, and Leaves; it is indeed a wonderful book, as you say. But I confess I was surprised when you expressed your disappointment that the author, Lynne Truss, “takes anything less than a fascist attitude toward imposing the...

No Longer Dying Death as Before

The key to Christian teaching on the subject of the Crucifixion is closely related to the Christological point I was speaking about in my last post (30 September). Christ is not merely empowered or indwelled by the Divine Logos or Word; He is that Logos in human form....

Occupying the Same Space

I’m afraid it’s a serious mistake to write, as you have, that “most Christian theologians have labeled the belief in one fully Divine Jesus as the monophysite heresy”. This is by no means the case. Every orthodox Christian believes and teaches...