Song of Satcitananda

1. To thee I sing

I am is the expression of the principle of existence. To thee I sing.

I know is the outgrowth of the ground of consciousness. To that I listen.

I love is radiating from holistic bliss infinity. To self-awareness.

2. In God, I love

In primordial Maya, I am. In samsara, I’m not even that.

In samsara, I know I am during a profound revelation or two. Otherwise, sometimes I think I am and sometimes I think I’m not.

In God, I love. In samsara, I love some things. In reality, I am holistic bliss infinity.

3. no words

There are no words to describe Parabrahman.

Words can only point to the pointless.

That gap is called Zeno's paradox.

4. For Zeno

There are no words to describe Parabrahman. Words can only point to the pointless. That gap is called Zeno's paradox.

The world is made of memories but I am that before the mind records it.

Personal deconstruction hurts. The personal kills.

5. this Big Bang

I am, I know, I love. Such is the power of three.

Existence, consciousness, bliss, are the names of Maya.

Between absolute awareness and self-awareness appears this Big Bang.

Not this. That.

It’s not about the quality of this.
Not this, not this.
That.

This is an appearance in that.
This isn’t really this.
This is always that.

This is like a dream.
God is like a dreamer
waving its wonder of maya.

God minus maya is that.
I minus this am that.
That is that.

2. that, oh my

Discernment, dispassion, and an earnestness for that, oh my.

Mind-training isn’t rocket science. It’s like learning how to use a hammer.

You can bang your thumb forever or hit the nail on the head.

3. Basho is big

Basho is big in Japan. There are statues of him along the narrow road to the deep north. I have seen the ones at Hiraizumi and Yamadera. His greatest haiku was the one he never wrote. Ya Matsushima.

Fleas, lice,
The horse pissing
Near my pillow
~Basho wrote this one. This is Blyth's translation.

4. to the light

Between DNA and psychological conditioning, I am.

Firewood appears to be on fire. Light is appearing as wood.

Fire is wood returning to the light.

5. beyond bee

Beyond bee and beekeeper is being.

Self-awareness is appearing in awareness.

Satcitananda is beyond words.

On the Ground of Awareness

Senses see the world, mind sees the senses, and awareness witnesses everything.

Awareness is not attention. Attention is mind superimposed on awareness. Awareness is the ground.

I think I am the mind but in reality I’m that awareness. But this is easier said than done.

This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

2. the light of awareness

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

That awareness is like a screen and this universe is like a movie which that screen also illumines. Like television.

Thus the light of awareness is the ground, the omnipresence of existence is the principle, and holistic infinity of bliss is the essence.

3. when

When the mind is turned off, it's called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it's called the dream state.

When beginningless ignorance is turned on, it's dreaming or deep sleep. When avidya is turned off, it's samadhi.

Avidya off with mind on is savikalpa, jivanmukti. And with mind off is nirvikalpa samadhi.

4. god

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god.

Not knowing your god is not knowing yourself

Beyond god is atman and atman is brahman.

5. sitting

Sitting in a sequoia tree singing out raw poetry.

I was a labyrinth in Santa Fe. I was the loneliest road in America.

By the time I got to Woodstock, there's a forest for the trees.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what's happening. 

Pure consciousness is the movie screen. Reflected consciousness is the movie.

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This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

When the mind is turned off, it’s called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it’s called the dream state.

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god. Not knowing your god is not knowing your self.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what’s happening.

That Reveals Speech & Not Vice Versa

Whether metaphorical or scientific, no language can describe the absolute nondual Brahman. Language can only point. 

Right brain people prefer the metaphorical and left brainers like the scientific.

Be it slings & arrows of snakes & ropes or powerful equations of satcitananda is not the point.

Pointing out the pointless is.

2. appearances in the principle

Life and death are dreamlike appearances in the principle of existence.

Like waking up and instantly knowing a dream was just a dream.

You’re not the car. You’re the driver witnessing the road.

3. ananda

In the name of the effortless nondoing of existence, the intuitive nonknowing of awareness, and the affectionate nonloving of ananda.

I pledge myself to the principle of existence. Standing on the ground of awareness. Breathing in the essence of ananda.

Cause and effect is appearing in existence. Knowledge and ignorance is appearing in awareness. Love and death is appearing in ananda.

4. festival

Moonlight is the reflection of ananda.

Winter solstice is a festival of existence.

The big bang is awareness of awareness.

The Principle of Satcitananda

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

The body and the mind and all its thoughts are insentient. It’s the principle of existence which gives them the appearance of something living.

Thus they say you are the principle of existence. For the real you is Brahman.

2. Fireplace

In any working fireplace there’s firewood and woodfire.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

Firewood is to dreaming as woodfire is to reflecting as fire is the subject.

3. Thus Maya

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

For Brahman to be Brahman, Brahman must be beyond all definitions of spacetime.

Whatever appears to be changeable or limited is not Brahman. And Brahman is all there is. Thus Maya.

4. Moonlight

Between ego (I'm somebody) and the principle of existence (I) is reflected existence (I am).

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Deconstruct yourself like digging out a loved one following a catastrophic earthquake.

5. Awareness aware of awareness

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.

Are we are on some karmic timeline in that self-reflexive universe?

Self-realization is spontaneous. It only appears to take 13 billion years.

0. My self-reflexive universe

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.