Maya's Ghazal

Atman lends sentience to the subtle and outer bodies of reflexive consciousness

like fire lends fire to a forest.

The mind is like a data collector and the intellect is the analyst.

But when the mind attempts to analyze its own data, the pursuant feedback results in garbage out.

There is no ego. Deep down the ego knows this.

It’s called ego’s paradox.

Nonduality appears to be a temporary faith based in logic destined for contemplative confirmation,

unless one chooses to believe it. Then it appears to be a permanent error.

Universal consciousness is isvara. Isvara is a place name for your particular god of universal consciousness to love.

All systems are go, gone, gone beyond. All philosophy is maya.

Conceptul Love Story

Believing itself to be an object, the mind desires other objects to possess. It’s a kind of mental love. Further, like atoms, most minds are programmed to be molecular, combining with another object to grow bigger.

To the materialist mind, you can never be too big. And the bigger you are, it takes that much more to make you bigger. Wild affluence is a vicious exponential vector of a river. 

And romantic love is a type of mental love as well in which the object is another person. But real love is one in which universal consciousness recognizes and identifies with universal consciousness, seeing through the superimposition of individuality.

From the point of view of individual consciousness (egoic mind), real love appears to be unconditional. But from the point of view of universal consciousness, all conditions are maya.

Purple Immortals (my favorite transcreations 101)

from cicadas of yamadera

to matsushima's matsushima—

ah one basho

Returning, I spread out a simple mat and eat

while chewing on some purple immortals.

I rinse my bowl in a clear pool.

I boil what’s remaining into a soup.

Sitting in sunshine, wrapped in a cloak,

I scan unhurriedly poems of the ancients.

~Cold Mountain (tx-SR)

The guru speaks of one direction:

Outer expression, inner entrance.

That became Lalla’s sacred word and practice.

Thus began my natural naked song and dance.

~Lal Ded (tx-SR)

How long shall you speak in riddles? Paradox bewilders the mind. Now speak clearly so the heart may hear.

The venerable Shams is both my Lord and Master. By his grace, the land of Tabriz is perfume and ambergris.

~Rumi (tx-SR)

The state in which both this and that are no longer known as opposites is called the Heart of the Way. And from the stillness of such a pivot point, all movement and opposition is seen in their immeasurable transformations.

~Zhuangzi (tx-SR)

Ask and you are given.

Seek and one is finding. 

Knock and be opened.

For every asking is receiving 

and the seeking is the finding 

and the knocking is being opened as oneself.

~Jesus from Matthew 7 (tx-SR)

Tao alone is truth.

Formless—it holds an image.

Indistinct—it shelters fact.

Hidden—it embraces essence.

How do I know? It tells me.

~Lao Tzu (tx-SR)

The Secret Knowledge welcomes by speaking accordingly; uttered to you is The Secret Knowledge of the Absolute; just You, The Secret Knowledge, is speaking therefore.

~from Kena Upanishad (tx-SR)

If Maya Then Isvara

Isvara and maya go together in this world.

For every subtle body, there’s a light reflecting in it.

The sleep dream is purely a mind dream, thought built upon thought.

But the waking dream is a superimposition of thought built upon the substrate of satcitananda.

But deep sleep is not nirvikalpa samadhi.

Nirvikalpa samadhi requires an awakened intellect to recognize and identify with intelligent awareness.

To deconstruct the superimposition and identify with the substrate.

The mind provides the data. The intellect analyzes and decides. The life force moves the body. That’s spontaneous nondoing in a nutshell.

Maybe in deep sleep the memories of the day gets downloaded to the dna of universal consciousness. So both body and mind get refreshed every night during a deep sleep.

If seeing through maya is seeing isvara, it’s helps to know what’s exactly being seen through.

Reflections of Isvara

Deep sleep is the absence of duality.

And deep sleep is a mass of universal consciousness.

And deep sleep is the abode of saguna brahman, isvara, name your god.

And deep sleep is the causal body called anandamaya.

And in the causal body is the dna of maya.

And isvara is reflecting in the intellect as intelligent awareness.

the big before the bang

1.

when in maya, do as the sattva do.

the veiling power of tamas; the projecting power of rajas; the revealing power of sattva.

tamas: you fail to see the rope rightly.

rajas: you see the rope as something else.

sattva: you still saw the rope in the first place, but only have mistaken it for a snake.

rajas is yang, tamas is yin. sattva is viveka.

2.

advaita vedanta coopted samkhya by turning prakriti into maya. a genius move.

like nonduality accepts the terms of duality as long as this duality is seen as maya.

if it changes, it can’t be the substratum.

the shimmering prakriti must be maya.

that changeless parusha is brahman.

3.

did you ever notice that the outer changes and the inner remains the same?

the nonconceptual inner is the big before the bang.

brahman is another name for the big.

atman is brahman is a paramahavakya.

Jnana and The Intellect

In functional maya, the mind supplies the data, the intellect decides an action, and the life force moves the body.

The intellect is the reflection of absolute intelligence. Without thinking about it, the intellect is absolute intelligence, or intelligent awareness.

In a materialistic metaparadigm, the intellect works for the mind. In the metaparadigm of universal consciousness, the mind works for the intellect.

Uncovering the Substrate

The subtle body of maya is transparently organic but insentient.

Pure consciousness reflecting in the subtle body gives it sentience.

The power of three creates the intellect, mind, and life force.

The mind usurps the life force creating the ego.

Outnumbered, the intellect surrenders to the ego and its world-building ways.

Until the satguru gets through by inspiration, intuition, or revelation.

Turning the intellect around to deconstruct the superimposition.

And recognize and identify with the uncovered substrate.

From the Encouragement Staff

Relatively speaking, maya is neither existent nor non-existent. From the absolute point of view, there is no maya. That’s why it’s said that maya is unborn but not eternal.

There’s not much of a difference between believing in santa claus, god, or the theory of everything. It’s not about the subjects of belief but belief itself. Go ask maya.

If the brain appears in consciousness, it can never figure out the holistic bliss infinity of pure consciousness. Thus it has to believe consciousness appears in the brain. There’s too much money at risk.

Is materialist nonduality a thing? Is that what a zen slap is? Knocking the materialism out of the disciple? First things first. My zen slap was my mirror image. Tomorrow is its anniversary.

The mind is an island in the sea of consciousness. Consciousness is a reflection in the subtle body of the buddhi. The buddhi is organic and transparent maya. The source of the reflection is intelligent awareness. Tattvamasi.

Maya is much like a shadow. It’s not real but it’s certainly not nothing. And in the full light of atman it’s just not there.

Turning Towards the Visionary

Illusions aren’t nothing; they’re illusions. Dreams aren’t nothing; they’re dreams. Similarly maya isn’t nothing. It’s maya.

So seeing through maya isn’t seeing through nothing. It might not be rocket science but it’s not child’s play either.

First there’s the modern metaparadigm of scientific materialism to turn turn turn around.

As long as the material mind is one’s foundational point of view, all the tea in China doesn’t make a visionary.

The mind cannot see through maya. The mind is maya. Only intelligent awareness sees through maya.

Maya makes the impossible possible. Like darkness, maya isn’t something but neither is it nothing. And in the light, maya is gone.