Nondoing is what I do. Doing is the story why I did it.
Real poetry is like the voice of silence in the land of noise.
Poetry points. Nonfiction deconstructs. Fiction dreams. Love you, babe.
Yin and yang is the breath of duality. It’s not a problem until the tao takes a side.
The tao has no sides. The tao is the diamond without a facet. Tao loves brahman.
Between the water table and this spring-fed pool is the world of maya. Like atman is brahman.
In this metaphor, the earth of maya is simply conceptual and the water is indivisible pure being.
All words are metaphorical to some degree. A rose is a rose in as much as the word points to the mystery of consciousness called a rose.
Even the word, awareness, is a metaphor for that substrate of nonconceptual awareness, that that which can’t be named.
Pointing at the moon howling I am that reflection of awareness as the black whole is swallowing the sun of self-awareness—that's lakshana. It's no neti-neti.
1. Name That Brahman
Brahman kind of means, god is great.
Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman
or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.
You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.
That by any other symbolic intuition is That.
2. god is so brahman
god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.
god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.
god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.
god is so blissful in brahman now.
3. Atman and Brahman
Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.
Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.
Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.
Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi.
Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.
Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.
Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.
Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi.
god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.
god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.
god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.
god is so blissful in brahman now.
Brahman kind of means, god is great.
Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman
or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.
You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.
That by any other symbolic intuition is That.
Try identifying with the intellect. The intellect is a reflection of intelligence. Another name for intelligence is awareness.
Another name for the reflection of awareness is consciousness. Another name for the conscious intellect is I Am.
Hard-wired superimposition is the body-life-force. Subtle superimposition is the mind-intellect-quality complex.
Ananda, through the binary lens of maya, appears to be happiness and unhappiness, pleasure and pain, one and zero.
Another name for this is quality. Thus satcitananda reflected in maya is mind-intellect-qualifier.
The life force body is born, lives, and dies. Its sentience is only reflected immortality. The subtle body is the mind, intellect,
and qualifier—reflections of shimmering satcitananda. Only the qualifier is after maya but before avidya.
Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.
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.
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).
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.
