Mayatown

In Maya, the mind is reflection of being and the intellect is reflection of intelligence.

In a healthy relationship, the mind provides the data and the intellect makes the decision. This is how nondoing works.

When the mind makes decisions instead, all hell breaks loose.

Maybe procrastination is like the mind has made a decision and the intellect informs the body not to do it. Better Bartleby than Citizen Kane.

Forget it Jake, it’s Mayatown. Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.

Self-Inquiry is Nondual Devotion

Without divine revelation being transmitted by a trustworthy one, silence is boring.

Faith begins with trust and ends in disillusionment or realization.

Advaitic self-inquiry is founded on affirming vedic faith, or practical nondual devotion

(religions (including scientific materialism) are founded on 

blind faith and its dogmatic theories of god or everything).

The Divine Revelation of Advaita

In advaita, silence is the ground,

but the divine word (veda) is the revelation

heard (sruti) by the seer (rishi).

It is the voice of the silence

introducing truth to the world.

But divine revelation is not to be believed!

Divine revelation is taken on faith

until confirmed or disproved.

Science investigates the physical world

but self-inquiry is investigating

the divine revelation of the metaphysical one.

The Power of Seven

Form follows function. Name follows form. X follows name.

Solve for function. Absolute consciousness is not functioning.

Self-awareness begins in beginningless ignorance and ends in endless insight.

You don’t need a surgeon general to know this kensho is addictive.

Self-realization is not a question of countless causeless quotes.

Self-realization is one of four advaita mahavakyas. 

Consciousness is brahman. Atman is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi.

And End

Self-awareness requires the space of maya and the time of avidya. And as maya is to form, and avidya, name, satcitananda is pervading namarupa now—call this principle, vishnu.

In advaita, it’s not as much original sin as beginningless ignorance. And original revelations are transported via rishi guru lightning and upanishadic thunder.

The mind calls intellect, intuition. The intellect calls intelligence, revelation. And the grace of beginningless ignorance is it’s not endless too.

Self-Revelatory and Self-Luminous

Reality is self-revelatory.

Reality cannot be known. Only reality knows.

The revelation of reality is spontaneous. And although transmitted revelation is not, it may spark such sudden revelation.

Reflected intelligence shines in the intellect. The intellect informs the mind. The mind deconstructs the mind. Intelligence is self-luminous.

Eka-jiva-vada Math

The ground of an individual is atman, the real self. The ground of the universe is brahman, the great reality. That atman is brahman is ultimate knowledge.

One comes to brahman through atman. One comes to atman through avidya, as one comes to nirvana through samsara.

One jiva, one avidya. One atman, one brahman. This is the mythical mystical math of eva-jiva-vada.

nondual dialog pseudo ghazal number 9

there's nothing wrong. there is no golden age. i am brahman.

the only thing is i am ignorant of that.

which came first? ignorance or conditioning both are beginningless.

ignorance ends.

non-abiding realization is there when you listen.

non-abiding confirmation without abiding invalidation isn't nothing.

self-realization is not a badge of honor.

i doesn't need your stinking badges.

every samadhi is non-abiding samadhi, with the exception of the nirvikalpa one.

nirvikalpa samadhi is the absolute point of view.

this point of view is savikalpa, non-abiding at best.

not that there's anything wrong with that 😍

take heart. ignorance ends. that is all.

when you find the right myth, marry it.

Seeing Faith

Existence, consciousness, and bliss is the rope. Name and form is the snake.

Sat, cit, and ananda are not three layers of brahman. Satcitananda is a single substrate, brahman. And namarupa is a superimposition of maya on this substrate.

This analogy of rope and snake is a temporary article of faith and not dogma. This advaitic myth is not to be believed, but confirmed.

Without confirmation, it's neither truth nor untruth. And believing myth with blind faith doesn't make it true, but untrue. Yet as long as the myth hasn't been unproven, keep the faith.

Reflections on Satcitananda

The reflection of satcitananda is satmaya, citmaya, and anandamaya, of course.

Anandamaya is the causal body. This is like saying self-awareness is the primal cause. 

Anandamaya is nothing if not a seeker and a lover.

The mind is satmaya, existence-maya, dream. The intellect is citmaya, consciousness-maya, buddhi.

Witnessing is to existence (being) as intuition is to consciousness (knowledge).

The happiness urge is anandamaya, always the procreant urge.

As devotion is to bliss (oneness).

In the name of the witness, knower, and beloved.