Wayne Liquorman came to nondual teaching in the late 1980s through Ramesh Balsekar, the retired Bombay banker who had been Nisargadatta Maharaj’s chief translator and one of his close students. After his own recognition, he was authorised by Balsekar to teach. He has held open weekly meetings in California ever since and travels for retreats.
His teaching reproduces the central Nisargadatta-Balsekar pointing. There is no doer. The sense of being a separate self choosing among options is itself an arising, not the agent it appears to be. The apparent doership dissolves not by effort but by the recognition that nothing other than what is happening could possibly be happening. This recognition, when it lands, brings an extraordinary lightening, the sense of being lived rather than the strain of trying to live. He is also responsible for editing and bringing into print most of Balsekar’s later books.
His Ram Tzu poems, sharp little verse-dialogues with the seeking mind, circulate independently of his prose teaching.
Where to start
- Acceptance of What Is: A Book About Nothing — his most direct presentation of the teaching, drawn from the Hermosa Beach meetings.
- Never Born — a longer collection of dialogues.
- No Way for the Spiritually Advanced — the Ram Tzu poems.
- The official site (Advaita Press) — meeting schedule, books, and a substantial archive of audio talks.
