This is Dedicated to the One

0. the one

It’s not that there’s no personal god, there’s no person. But as long as one is acting like an individual, there’s a universal god to be reckoned with.

Forgive me Isa for I have sinned and missed the mark. Although in Maya I am you the universal consciousness, I’m thinking I’m an individual consciousness instead.

Moreover due to this original ignorance, I’m alienated from holistic bliss infinity and stuck inside samsara with the dreamstate blues.

And that almighty satguru is always whispering this ignorance is only cured by knowing what I’m not while being the pure knowledge that I am.

1. oppenheimer redux

As long as one is acting like an ego there's a superego to be heard.

Newtonian physics is to the universal body-mind as quantum physics is to universal consciousness.

From the point of view of materialism, quantum physics is a paradox. From the point of view of consciousness, a paradox is an effect appearing in the cause.

2. satcitananda!

Life is but a reflection of existence. Consciousness is but a reflection of pure consciousness. And happiness is but a reflection of ananda. Let's go satcitananda!

Satcitananda is not a quality of the absolute noumenal godhead. Satcitananda is the nature of the absolute noumenal godhead. Like fire is hot, parabrahman is existence itself and consciousness itself and holistic bliss infinity itself, that power of three!  And that's not nothing.

Please do not mistake pure existence for nothing. Just because absolute existence is indescribable and therefore hasn't a name doesn't mean it's name is nothing.

3.

In this Valley of the Tao

Cynthia Forsythia shall be appearing

if the Creek don't rise

The Little Lower Layers of Causality

0. on satkaryavada, vivartavada, and ajativada

First, the effect is same as the cause. Moreover, the effect is merely an appearance in an immutable cause.

Actually, cause itself is an appearance. Nothing is ever born. There is existence and existence only.

As maya is the power of saguna brahman, causality is the potency of maya. Samsara is the effect of ignorance. 

Destroying ignorance is the effect of knowledge. Knowledge is the effect of the all-knowing. Non-origination is beyond original sin.

1. on the force (of prajnanam)

It's the mind divides and the intellect decides. And not the mind divides and decides, and the heart of intelligence covers the mind's ass in reams of rationalization.

Consciousness is, so to speak, the single cell which has never divided.

Addition nor subtraction, there is neither. To be fruitful and multiply is maya's directive. In division but not of division, consciousness talking to consciousness, that is.

footbotes

a 

It's the mind divides and the intellect decides. And not the mind divides and decides, and the intellect covers the mind's ass in reams of rationalization.

The intellect is the reflection of pure intelligence as knowledge is the reflection of pure consciousness.

As the 'I Am' is the reflection of pure existence and happiness is the reflection of ananda.

b.

Consciousness is, so to speak, the single cell which has never divided.

Am I the filament or electricity? Am I the manifestation of light or light? Outside of the mind, there is no question.

The opposite of pure existence, the sat of satcitananda, is life and death.

The opposite of pure consciousness, the cit of satcitananda, is ignorance and wisdom.

And the opposite of pure bliss, the ananda of satcitananda, is sad and sadder.

c.

"By criticizing worse views one arrives by stages at better ones. 

For example, the view that effects are different from their causes (asatkaryavada) is worse than the view that the effect is essentially identical with its cause (satkaryavada);

within the latter, the view that the cause transforms itself into its effect (parinamavada) is worse than the view that it manifests its appearance as effect without itself changing in so doing (vivartavada);

still, all views that take causation seriously are inferior to nonorigination (ajativada), since causal relations, as any relations, involve differences and are thus tinged with ignorance."

~Karl Potter

The Assumption of Maya

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To assume doesn’t make an ass out of you and me. It makes you and me.

The first assumption is I’m not the universe, but an individual entity surrounded by an infinity of others.

Here’s the wrinkle though. Not only am I not an individual consciousness, I’m not universal consciousness either.

The former assumption is made out of ignorance, but the latter one is the wizardry of gods and maya.

Tattvamasi is where the rubber meets the way. No person but atman. No god but brahman. No truth but atman is brahman.

1. the nondual turning

If consciousness is brahman, and atman is brahman, as the mahavakyas testify, then consciousness is atman by the transitive maya of nonduality.

Not the body-mind complex, I am consciousness and consciousness is my true self. And the true self is the inner self and the outer self, our nondual self.

From a materialist metaparadigm to one of consciousness, there is a great turning. It's like that of molecular rock becoming functional compounds and organic chemicals.

2. rest in presence

Another name for profound meditation is resting. Like Jiva Be Goode and still.

Resting in existence is resting in consciousness. I Am is its mantra.

I am, therefore I know. I know, therefore infinity and so on, like a cat's cradle.

3. dropping hyphens

I am therefore I know.

I know therefore infinity and a cat's cradle.

Supercalifragilistictattvamasi.

4. mary mother of god

I am, therefore I think I am.

All thoughts appear in one consciousness, do they not?

Maya whispers yes.

5.

The sea knows the island.

The island doesn't know the sea.

As consciousness knows the mind

But the mind cannot know consciousness.

Symphony of Epistle Me and Prophecy You

You usurp the I and call it me. As if that consciousness is a creation of the body-mind,

you pray at the feet of science who’s yet to prove it.

Praying to the Christ is not a superstition but just giving a name to the godhead

of consciousness, like Krishna, in which the world is appearing like a powerful dream.

Devotion is the first step in turning away from all your scientific hocus pocus.

And devotion to consciousness itself is the middle way

as identifying with consciousness is the direct way.

Toward jivanmukta, all three ways are legit. In whatever combination applied,

their earnest deconstruction beats your unsubstantiated and frantic belief, friend.

I bow to Sri Dakshināmūrti in the form of my guru:

I bow to Him by whose grace the whole of the world

Is found to exist entirely in the mind, like a city's image mirrored in a glass,

Though, like a dream, through maya’s power it appears outside;

And by whose grace, again, on the dawn of Knowledge,

It is perceived as the everlasting and non-dual Self.

~Shankara in Hymn to Sri Dakshināmūrti (tr-Nikhilananda)

Drive My Fast Car

Mindfulness is like paying the same attention to the actions of a body-mind as one would in driving a fast car. Consciousness is talking to consciousness. Consciousness is not a backseat driver.

First, there is devotion to the representative of consciousness. Next there is allegiance to consciousness itself. And finally there is identification with consciousness. No belief. Oneself.

Fact-checking

In devotion, consciousness is sometimes called spirit.

In pledging one's allegiance to consciousness, one is dedicated to that spirit of existence and holistic bliss infinity too.

Identification with consciousness is not identification with any belief. Identification with consciousness is, in fact, disidentifying with all belief.

The Last Belief

Nonduality is, in fact, the last belief. Letting go of nonduality is your personal apocalypse.

That's why letting go takes a lifetime—ba dum tss! Seriously though, you can't let go. It lets you go.

And It doesn't let you go until It knows you're ready to let go. So get ready already.

Getting Ready

There's no one way of getting ready. Basically, for the purposes of this paraverse, there's devotion, a middle way, and direct.

And all the weird combinations of that power of three per your singular conditioning.

I am hereby devoted to the raw intelligence of Maya. I now pledge allegiance to the universal consciousness of Isvara. I Atman Am That Brahman,

Beyond, Be Yonder, The Great Beyond

0. beyond, be yonder, the great beyond.

Like the movie screen pervading the movie, consciousness pervades the world.

Like a mirage is in and of the desert, the mind is not just an appearance in consciousness, the mind is of consciousness.

Like the illusory snake is in and of the rope, there is no mind. There’s only consciousness.

Like if consciousness is all there is, then I am consciousness. And as consciousness, I am, I shine, and Beloving.

1. gate 

Consciousness projects the mind upon the screen.

Maya is the movie.

The screen is pure consciousness.

2. paragate.

Clouds appear in the sky

but aren't of the sky—

the sky appears in space 

and is of space.

3. parasamgate.

Like a dream is in and of the mind, 

spacetime is in and of consciousness.

There is no spacetime.

4. isvara and maya.

Cities are just projections of the past. Nature is happening now.

The city is Maya. Intelligence is Saguna Brahman.

5. lakshmidhara and basho.

In a dragon boat on Matsushima Bay

the ghost of Basho is appearing

like 260 infinitesimal pine islands.

6. gaudapada and the mahavakya.

Like the sleeping dream, the waking world is in and of the mind.

And the mind, body sleeping or body waking, is in and of consciousness.

And consciousness is existence is holistic bliss infinity—prajnanam brahma.

7. call me satcitananda

Please allow me to introduce myself. The satcitananda that can be named is not the real satcitananda.

I am existence itself—as in not non-existence. I am awareness itself—as in not unaware. And I am holistic bliss infinity as in ananda.

In other words, I am, I know I am, and ananda!

I Am Breaking Maya (symphony 1)

breaking maya

Do not agonize over maya but understand avidya. If the body-mind appears in consciousness, as is obvious (at first disturbing) to the witnessing of deep sleep,

I’m not the body-mind—I am consciousness, beyond any doubt the mind may have. In other words, I am that ‘I am’.

The metaphysics of nonduality isn’t rocket science. Existence, consciousness, and holistic bliss infinity is all there is. And I am that.

Yes, I am the sky of pure consciousness. Neither earth, water, wind, nor fire offer any real concern. Maya can’t touch me.

deconstructing ordinary awareness

Ordinary awareness witnesses the waking state but true awareness witnesses deep sleep.

In the ordinary world, ordinary awareness is attention, which is consciousness and thought combined.

If you think you know what true awareness is, deep sleep is there to deconstruct you.

devotional #1

The mind is a tool the mind does not know how to use.

Devotion to a god is not to be believed but practiced.

To help the mind not abuse itself by using itself, let consciousness be Krishna.

in the name of satcitananda

Satcitananda is the god of gods.

And life is but the reflection of Existence; attention, the reflection of Consciousness; and happiness, Ananda.

That is that existence which can't be named; that consciousness which can't be believed, and that ananda which can't be defined.

devotional #2 (methuen #1)

Beyond spacetime is the space of consciousness and the time of timelessness.

Marrying the matrices of life, attention, and ananda is oneself, nonduality.

Dedicated to that christ consciousness i so mysteriously loved

While skipping catholic sunday school behind the anglican stone walls of the east street cemetery.

~My First Methuen Devotional~

Beyond spacetime is the space of consciousness and the time of timelessness.

Marrying the matrices of life, attention, and ananda is oneself, nonduality.

Dedicated to that Christ consciousness I so mysteriously loved

While skipping catholic sunday school behind the anglican walls of the east street cemetery.

nonduality comics 240302

1. unconsciousness

a.

unconsciousness is a misnomer. it's more like unmind.

b.

the mind is either on or off. 

consciousness is neither on nor off 

but is is is.

c.

consciousness is that immutable nonduality

witnessing either the presence of duality or the absence of duality—

whether it's dream or deep sleep doesn't really matter to 'me'.

2. personalizing

a.

yes the mind personalizing consciousness is the original sin

and the source of all suffering

but give the me a break.

any one-year-old would have made the same mistake.

b. 

and don't go blaming god the parent for the work of god the child.

c.

forget it jake the snake, it's maya town.

3. epistle to my dakini

belief is like a rock in the middle of a stream. in other words, belief is the root of all duality. in nonduality club, no identification is required.

the only difference between dreaming and waking is the body being on or off. otherwise, dreaming is dreaming.

if mind-on is dreaming whether the body is on or off, and mind-off and body-off is deep sleep, what is mind-off and body-on, my inner dakini?

Symphony Number One: Me, Myself, and Atman (for Agi)

1. paraverse.

Consciousness is where the buck stops. The dream state is lit by the mind. The mind is lit by consciousness. Consciousness is self-luminous.

Strange, the mind borrows its sentience from consciousness but in some material hallucination has come to believe that consciousness owes the mind its life.

Look, in deep sleep, the mind is nowhere to be seen, yet consciousness is present witnessing this absence of duality. Further, consciousness is all there is. In fact, I am that.

And all those castles in the clouds are appearing in ‘me’. For the mind usurps the noumenal subject and mistakes its false sense of self for ‘me’, I, the true Self.

2. advaitaverse

Vidyaranya says you have to draw the line somewhere not in the ad infinitum metaphysical but that which is actually intuitive most importantly.

Ashtavakra says to Janaka, when the mind usurps consciousness, it makes its body its sole identity, and this stream of consciousness its natural by-product.

Gaudapada divides the ordinary states of mind in two: deep sleep and dreaming, whereas most suppose three. But in his karika, the waking state is

just a subset of dreaming—highlighting both deep sleeps’s absence of duality and the dreamlike quality of the waking state. Genius!

The poet Laksmidhara in Advaita Makaranda (Nectar of Nonduality) is taking one’s stand in Brahman. It’s up to you to prove that truth otherwise.

3. tantrikaverse

belief is like a rock in the middle of a stream. in other words, belief is the root of all duality. in nonduality club, no identification is required.

the only difference between dreaming and waking is the body being on or off. otherwise, dreaming is dreaming.

if this mind-on is dreaming whether the body is on or off, and mind-off and body-off is deep sleep, what is mind-off and body-on, my sweet dakini?

ndc240229. one giant leap day.

1.

koans don't crack mirrors.

a good koan sees through the mirror.

bad koans see through mirrors too

and the mirror cracks the koan.

2.

I once saw Ramana Maharshi raining from an infinite sky to the desert ground

Like turquoise columns seen through Mesa Arch on Island in the Sky.

3.

in the rainforest

—columbia river gorge—

i eat three pancakes

4.

two ferries crossing basho bay

—the dragon is catching the wake of a phoenix—

surfing matsushima

The Nonduality Trio

1. dedicated to the one i love

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy.

I am like that.

2. ahamasmi

I am,

I self-luminously know,

and never not beloved—

a 15th century poet writes something like that.

3. light, camera, action!

Consciousness is the highest knowledge!

Being is the greatest life!

Holistic infinity bliss is purest joy!

I shall be joining that chorus!

radio releases

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~Dedicated to The One I Love~

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy. 

I shall be joining that chorus!

~fm~

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy.

Consciousness is the highest knowledge!

Being is the greatest life!

Holistic infinity bliss is purest joy!