The expression of brahman is always changing but brahman never changes.
The ignorant will freeze some particular span of space and time to worship for its monumental creativity—and defend its monument against all change.
Only the grateful dead live are the grateful dead. A poet reads in order to write. As consciousness, one writes.
The poet is not the word as brahman is not the universe but the wave is the sea.
It’s not true everyone is enlightened about their true nature, but it is true that no one is not brahman.
Enlightenment is just an ostentatious word for having rid oneself of this unborn ignorance once and for all. But I like it.
Not only is that one attentive to one’s natural awareness amidst the word cloud of the world’s loud benightedness,
but one is actually that awareness—awareness is always enlightening one if one is actually listening.
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The mind may come to know what it isn’t and what the mahavakyas say it is and cipher exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two and wait there for the magic bus that is coming to take me away ah ha!.
They say realization happens in the intellect, that reflection of divine intelligence, that cave of atman, that city of brahman, that lotus of my heart.
Call it pratibodha and say om.
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So what science sees as a great black hole is actually the self-shining seer seeing science.
You can't see it. That's why you have to listen. Silence is not an end in itself. It's the prerequisite for this listening.
And one doesn't listen by this listening. One listens by heart.
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At the heart of every concept is awareness, pure consciousness, that essential principle of existence.
Vedantic scientists have named this postulate of truth, pratibodha-vidatam.
Vedantic poets call it rope and snake.
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Awake the lotus heart is lucid dreaming.
Stevie wonder dreaming in the city of brahman—skyscrapers and everything.
In my day, the grateful dead were grateful for their psychedelic resurrection as pure consciousness and the beatles went all the way to rishikesh. This was my generation baby.
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Everything appears in the self-shining light of pure consciousness (natural awareness), does it not?
So the question you have to ask yourself punk, are you the appearance or the natural awareness?
It's the simple equation behind every koan: om is mu.
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Call it pratibodha and say om.
So what science sees as a great black hole is actually the self-shining seer seeing science.
Vedantic poets call it rope and snake.
Awake the lotus heart is lucid dreaming!
It’s the simple equation behind every koan: om is mu.
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If you feel you need to breathe, your god is obviously still vayu.
And by the transitive property of the gods themselves, you may choose any aspect of this absolute manifestation to worship instead.
For this is the heart of all polytheistic points of view. Praise maya!
The sea pervades and envelops the wave that’s not a wave but is maya’s brave new world of dreaming unawareness.
For unawareness is just a temporary state, much like the grand appearance of a superstar and its transformative return to the great black hole of brahman.
Look, only the mind sees that paramatman as a great black hole; the nondual self is in reality the self-shining seer.
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Indidividual consciousness is called the knowing atman because unborn ignorance has this natural need to know.
Universal consciousness is called the great atman because the wizard of maya.
And pure consciousness is called the peaceful atman as in tattvamasi satcitananda.
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It’s ok to call science your god.
God is the god of ten thousand attributes. Take as many as you want.
My god is maya neat.
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Science is still looking for the God of Consciousness inside Its Dream.
That’s like looking for the sea in the middle of an island paradise.
The big bang is easy. Beyond the big bang is the razor’s edge.
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Individual consciousness is a conditioned consciouness.
The conditioner is the world of individual consciousnesses.
It's a vicious cycle.
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A table is more than 99% space. Relax, you can’t put your elbows on it.
Objects appearing in consciousness appear to be something other than consciousness. They’re not.
Pure consciousness you are, Luke.
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Tao is to parabrahman
as te is to the sattva of maya
and sunday is to tamas
and yang is to the guna of rajas.
Om Lao Tzu
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Existence is the substrate and life its expression.
Personal lives are its writhing dreams and nightmares.
Waking up is every dreamer's destiny. Arise!
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Five days out of seven I'm not saying what I'm thinking; that's my earworm to be seen through.
Two days out of seven I am consciousness talking to consciousness. Each one of those days is like a long weekend.
Wake up Maggie, I've been playing the Upanishads louder lately. Enjoy!
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tao is to parabrahman
as te is to the sattva of maya
and yin is to tamas and yang is to the guna of rajas,,,
om, l,ao tzu
Individual consciousness is due to ignorance. All the ignorance in the world is due to this avidya. It’s why the world is what it is: samsara.
Universal consciousness is still an illusion, although its laws of nature work impeccably. You can put your trust in maya and give it any god-like name you love.
Pure consciousness is the godhead. The principle of existence is its nature. And as natural awareness, it is the deep blue substrate sea.
a. Never Misunderestimate Maya
1. Maya is more than a mirage.
2. Maya is more powerful than a locomotive.
3. Maya is mirage plus suffering, and further, jnanam sakti.
b. Talkin' Maya to Maya
1. The three powers of maya are veiling, projecting, and jnanam sakti in the highest.
2. Jnanam sakti is consciousness talking to consciousness, the greatest power.
3. Reflexive Consciousness is beyond spacetime. It is the speed of light.
c. To Satcitananda, Love Maya
1. Between awareness and self-awareness is maya. Between the rope and snake is applied this layer of maya.
2. Between the light and the material world is entered this atomic maya code.
3. Between the molecular universe and the light of self-awareness is the power of satcitananda.
d. Greatest Hits
1. Maya is mirage plus suffering, and further jnanam sakti. Jnanam sakti is consciousness talking to consciousness.
3. Between the light and the material world is entered this atomic maya code. Between the molecular universe and the light of self-awareness is the power of satcitananda.
4. Omkara is the bow, Atman is the arrow, and Brahman is named the goal. That is to be struck by an attentive mind.
Self-awareness almost always takes a back seat to the world of Maslow’s lower needs. 'You had one job.'
Atman meditation should be my number one priority, but this assumes I know what atman really is. If not, 'lectio divina' is priority too.
In advaita, listening to divine truth is 'sravana,' contemplating this truth is 'manana,' and breathing that truth is 'nididhyasana.' Three work procedures.
Pronounced om, as in home, Om is the most sacred word of the Vedas and may be compared to the Word referred to by St. John in the opening of the Fourth Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
According to Hindu philosophy, the whole of this universe has name and form (namarupa) as the conditions of its manifestation. (The form is its outer crust, of which the name or idea is the inner essence or kernel. The name is inseparable from a word or sound.)
The universe perceived by the five senses is the form, behind which stands the eternal, inexpressible Sphota, the Word or Logos. This eternal Sphota, the essential, beginningless material of all ideas or names, is the power through which the Lord creates the universe;
nay, the Lord first becomes conditioned as the Sphota by His own maya and then evolves Himself as the more concrete sense-perceived universe.
The symbol of the Sphota is Om, also written Aum. Since a word is inseparable from its idea, Om and the eternal Sphota are inseparable. Therefore the eternal Om is the mother or source of all names and forms, and hence is the holiest of all holy words.
There may be other words to denote the eternal and inexpressible Sphota; but the Hindus contend that Om is a unique word and uniquely apposite.
The Sphota is the material or foundation of all sounds or words, which are inseparable from names or ideas; yet it is not any definite, fully formed word. That is to say, if all the peculiarities that distinguish one word from another be removed,
Then what remains will be the Sphota, or Om. Therefore Om is called the Nada-Brahman, the Sound-Brahman... It is the symbol both of the Personal God (in His aspect of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer [A, U, and M]) and of Impersonal Reality.
