The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening

The purpose of the practices presented here is to uncover fundamental consciousness as the foundational ground of our being. This ground can be called the essence of our being because it is experienced as unchanging and unmoving. Unlike all of the changing content of our experience, it is not constructed or imagined—it is revealed as we refine and

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As a teacher of fundamental consciousness, I think that the rangtong view may be better known than the shentong because it is simply easier for many people to do the conceptual deconstructive work of disassembling a table into parts than the fine attunement work of actually experiencing the table as made of the same consciousness as their own being

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It pointed out to me that people are instinctively drawn to particular philosophies, that we are each more compatible with some spiritual approaches than others. We need to follow our own lights to get to the path that feels right, and to do that, we need to understand the differences between the various paths and philosophies. This is especially t

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Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of

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Although my work as a nonduality teacher is aligned with the shentong view, I do not speak of fundamental consciousness as a metaphysical reality. I cannot claim to know what it is. Buddhists often speak of it as the nature of the mind, while many Hindu philosophers have asserted that it is the nature of the universe. Still others claim that we hav

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In the Realization Process, nondual realization is experienced as the laying bare of fundamental consciousness. When we uncover it, we experience that our own body and our surroundings are pervaded by and made of this same undivided expanse of consciousness. We recognize it as our primary nature, the fundamental ground of our own being, and at the

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