you can't practice love;
any practice of peace is essentially violent.
between knowing love and witnessing maya,
this green river is flowing.
when i was a child i believed religiously.
no longer a child, it's simply unbelievable.
pure consciousness (brahman) is the witness.
reflected consciousness (isvara) is the i-am.
ignorant consciousness (avidya) is the person.
enlightened consciousness (tattvamasi) is pure consciousness.
01. Peaking Mount Chocorua
Obviously this Mount Chocorua
reflecting in Chocorua Lake
is not the true Chocorua
02. The Old Man
First there was an Old Man of the Mountains
and then there wasn't—
Cannon Mountain-May 2003 spacetime
03. Memorial Day 1976
By the time we got to
Kancamagus Pass—
all the trees were bare
04. Mount Lafayette-June 1993
After breaking through the wall
looms the timberline of my devotion—
the Pemigewasset Wilderness is waiting on the eastern side
They say realization is being real and not being the real.
Being the real implies an awakening to the knowledge of the real, as in an object being known in the world.
On the other hand, being real is like being the unknown.
One way is pure consciousness. The other way is still reflecting consciousness.
Obviously, this Mount Chocorua reflecting in Chocorua Lake is not the true Chocorua.
01. Crazy Cat, Crazy Cat, What
This consciousness is
to reflected consciousness
as a mirror will reflect
light on a wall
and drive all those cats crazy.
Like they know
the light
shining
on the wall
is nothing but light.
02. Ode to Snake and Rope
In the old advaita
snake and rope analogy
the snake is nothing
but an appearance
in the rope
like magical reality—
there’s never anything
but the one
reality of rope.
03. ATTN
They say
the subtle body
(organic chemicals and
functional compounds)
reflects awareness
and is experienced
as consciousness,
the reflection of pure
consciousness,
attention,
I am.
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before,
during,
and after the movie,
there is nothing there
but a movie screen—
and the same witness
witnessing the dream
is witnessing
deep sleep as well.
05. ode to brahman
nirguna brahman is
pure consciousness.
saguna brahman is
universal consciousness—
individual consciousness is
avidya.
every appearance in brahman is
brahman
and nothing but brahman.
06. attn est
attention
is
nothing but
pure consciousness
blended with thought—
this ‘i am’ is the reflection
of pure existence
similarly metaphysical
1.
They say the subtle body (organic chemicals and functional compounds) reflects awareness and is experienced as consciousness, the reflection of pure consciousness, attention, I am.
This consciousness is to reflected consciousness as a mirror will reflect light on a wall and drive all those cats crazy. Like they know the light shining on the wall is nothing but light.
And attention is nothing but pure consciousness mixed with thought. And this ‘I am’ is the reflection of pure existence in a similarly metaphysical fashion.
2.
Nirguna Brahman is pure consciousness. Saguna Brahman is universal consciousness. Individual consciousness is avidya. All appearances in Brahman is Brahman and nothing but Brahman.
In the old advaita snake and rope analogy, the snake is just an appearance in the rope, like magical reality. There’s never anything but the one reality of rope.
Before, during, and after the movie, there is nothing but a movie screen. And the same witness witnessing the dream is witnessing deep sleep as well.
Crazy Cat, Crazy Cat, What
This consciousness is
to reflected consciousness
as a mirror will reflect
light on a wall
and drive all those cats crazy.
Like they know
the light
shining
on the wall
is nothing but light.
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
02. 240217b
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
03. 240217c
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.
04. 240217.2337
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.
