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.