Original sin is not some evil. It’s avidya, original ignorance, identification with the body-mind.
This original ignorance is not only passed on from parent to child, it’s in the DNA.
Only knowledge for consciousness, by consciousness, and of consciousness shall dispel this ignorance and see through the snake of avidya.
Thus there are these mahavakyas: Prajnanam Brahma, Tat Tvam Asi, Ayam Atma Brahma, Aham Brahma Asmi.
01. not an ai haiku
the universe is one cause and one effect
isvara is the cause and maya ten thousand effects
brahman (tattvamasi) is causeless
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dreaming is for the dream by the dream and of the dream
brahman is beyond dreaming
like seven continents can't imagine the one great sea
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When I was a child, I thought my God was out there.
When I was a man, I thought my God was a woman.
Now that I know I'm neither, what a long strange incarnation it's been.
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When I was a child, I thought my god was out there.
When I was a man, I thought my god to be a natural woman.
I now know I am neither.
1. triangulating consciousness
Either the world makes consciousness;
consciousness creates the world;
or consciousness is neither cause nor effect.
2. the consciousness trinity
The first ilk is called materialist—scientific, atheistic, postmodern.
The second is called spiritualist—orthodox, modern, new age.
And the third is nameless—changeless, birthless, nondual.
3. ode to maya
Although the world isn’t real, it’s not unreal either.
This illusion (snake-rope, mirage-desert) is the essence of Maya.
As Brahman is the name for the nameless, Maya is the name for all the names appearing in the nameless.
4. to nonduality and beyond
Yes, pure consciousness (aka awareness) is nameless and nondual
but the absolute is beyond nonduality as well.
After the first thorn has been removed by the second thorn, both roses are thrown away, grasshopper.
Karma is not the truth. Karma is an appearance in the truth. Karma appears to be the truth because people believe in because. This belief is one of the primal beliefs of avidya. Gaudapada uses the sanskrit word, abhinavesa, to describe it.
“Abhiniveśa is not merely a persistent belief, but an intense mental preoccupation with an ardent faith in a false knowledge sustained and nurtured by a totally laughable ignorance.” ~Chinmayananda
Causality is the fool of ten thousand koans and the liar behind every paradox. The universe is the cause and the universe is its result, crow caws the causelessness of crow. Not only is the absolute beyond causality, it's beyond beyond.
Between deep sleep and samadhi, the mind is walking.
Both dream states are like sleepwalking. True awakening is more like lucid dreaming.
As the mind is a perpetual motion machine, sleepwalking is more like sleep running, and lucid dreaming is just dreaming in slow motion.
It’s not true that one consciousness is vibrating into this duality of mind.
It just appears to be true; Maya’s middle name happens to be causality.
But in pure consciousness there is no cause and effect.
This is not to say such absolute knowledge precludes living in the material world.
Even Einstein ate his dinner at a table he knew to be 99% space.
Jivanmuktis exist beyond causality—in karma but not of karma.
1. Of Dragons, Rishis, and Al Green.
The year of the dragon—north of the river of love and south of the mountains of wisdom.
The rishis say that the nature of the absolute truth is pure existence, awareness, and ananda. There's no arguing with satcitananda.
The reflection of sat is 'I am', of cit is meditation, and of ananda is love and happiness. It makes you wanna dance and sing.
2. Ignorant Issues.
You can’t get there from here because you’re already here.
The mind dreams whether the body is turned on or off.
Ignorance of what I am is the issue—unborn and immortal, unknown and all-knowing, beyond all happiness and love, tattvamasi.
Maya sees with the eyes of ten thousand beings. Human beings are only one point of view.
In a sleeping dream, the one mind becomes subject and ten thousand objects. Why would the waking dream be any different, Thomas?
Isn't it astounding that the witness of both dream dualities is that which is witnessing the absence of duality in deep sleep?
First there is a mountain, then there’s neti neti, then there’s brahman.
First there is the waking state, then the dreamstate, then there’s atman.
First the material universe produces consciousness
or the spirit of consciousness generates creation
but consciousness is beyond all cause and effect as atman is brahman.
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Causality is the nature of maya.
Not only is atman immortal, I am unborn.
Because cause and effect is the nature of duality, and no one can kill the snake appearing in a rope because illusion, it’s not why, why, why. It just isn’t.
02.
Dreaming is the infinite regress of mind.
As a dream cannot know its dreamer and the dreamer cannot know the dream of a dreamer in its dream…
sudden enlightenment.
03.
Unborn, nondual, and effortless, I, atman, am brahman, that,
as in never temporary, not two, and causeless:
remarkably
the same pure consciousness
witnessing the dream states
is witnessing
the deep sleep dreamless state
tattvamasi
04.
welcome to the year
of the dragon south of hill
and north of river
my happy valley
is in this pleasant valley
but of the river
less than ten miles as
the crow flies is the great big
sea—that atlantic
05.
the sea is to space
as the sun is to the black
whole jack kerouac
jack is down river
from ed mcmahon upriver
from leo bernstein
beyond all howling
turning off the mind relax
float downstream like tao
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two red winged blackbirds arrive in the picture window thursday february eighth—earliest return appearance in my thirty years living in this valley.
all things change.
objects appear in the subject. the subject does not appear in the objective universe.
