Some say shiva is absolute awareness and shakti is self-awareness and the two are just aspects of one.
Some say nirguna brahman awareness is saguna brahman self-awareness by the power of maya.
Some say the intellect deconstructs the fog of mind and in the clarity called self-awareness recognizes and identifies with atman.
This deconstruction takes a lifetime but the recognition and identification is sudden, spontaneous, timeless, infinite.
Where does fire go after burning out?
For stars are but reflections of the great black whole.
The mirror only reflects the truth.
Any misconception lies within the eyes of the beholder.
The reflection of consciousness is pure consciousness.
It’s the appearance in the mirror which is conditioned consciousness.
This appearance is called ahamkara
or the I in action, ego, aren’t I something?
Ahambhava is the I at rest,
this manifest state of being, this sense I am.
And aham is the principle of I,
the sat of satcitananda, pure being.
A reflexive universe of self-awareness is my movie, maya, celluloid dream.
This cineramic silver screen is atman.
Every concept is brahman but brahman is not a concept. This is called the Golden Concept.
Even the thought of brahman may be brahman but brahman is not a thought. Brahman is beyond belief.
The Kena says, not thinking one fully knows nor not knows is the knowing of brahman.
That brahman is not conceptual is the ground of all personal deconstruction, neti neti, and other negative capabilities.
For after the satguru turns the intellect around, the intellect removes the fog of mind in which it has survived.
And I am That as the intellect recognizes its reflection of brahman is brahman. For brahman is the sacrifice and brahman is the fire.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
