All objects including the entire world of people and things are nothing but concepts. To see this is to be liberated from all suffering. Now we come to the practical application of this course. Everything that has come before has formed a groundwork of concepts that we shall now use in ending our suffering and uncovering our true nature. The purpose of spiritual teachings is to help make us aware of the experiences that validate the concepts that we have learned.
Most teachings incorporate some kind of spiritual practice.
There are hundreds of different kinds of spiritual practice, and each spiritual teacher will teach his or her own version. We have focused, and shall continue to focus, on only two teachings that are currently taught by jnanis in the West. One of them does not involve a practice at all. This is the deep understanding of the absence of volition, doership, and the individual, as taught by Wei Wu Wei, Ramesh Balsekar, and their disciples. The other is the teaching of inquiry into our true nature and that of Reality, and variations of this teaching, as taught by many teachers.