The Death Illusion

  INTRODUCTION ~ Humans tend to regard themselves as supreme by nature, in contrast to what is viewed as a primitive world.  We live with a…

Why Cause and Effect Never Met

    The teachings of Nagarjuna (150-250 CE) widely considered the most important Buddhist philosopher after the founding Buddha, begins his profound Middle Way treatise by…

The Myth of the Self: Neurology Weighs In

Thomas Metzinger’s book, “The Ego Tunnel,” makes a stunning contribution to the insight that a self does not inherently exist.  Metzinger’s work now brings neurology into what…

Memory Is Not a Time Traveler

It is critical to deconstruct memory in order to see that it does not inherently exist.  Memory is often viewed as a time traveler that can…

Consciousness Is Empty (and so is love)

  ~ INTRODUCTION From the perspective of emptiness teachings, to say that something is empty means that it is empty of an inherent or independent existence.…

Reconsidering Psychotherapy: A Nondual Opening To Diversity

Reprint from “Nonduality America,” Publisher: Matthew King http://nondualityamerica.wordpress.com By Susan Kahn ~ In this article, I set out to address a nondual audience regarding psychotherapy. My…

No Separate Self

  People commonly believe that they have a separate self that is fixed and unchanging, an inside core that is a me.  Despite noticing that thoughts, feelings,…

Haiga by Roberto Alborghetti and Susan Kahn

Link to Roberto’s site to watch video

Einstein on Selflessness

“The fact that man produces a concept “I” besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be…

Nagarjuna’s Seventy Verses

Translation by Christian Lindtner [1] Though the Buddhas have spoken of duration, origination, destruction, being, non-being, low, moderate, and excellent by force of worldly convention, [they]…