Not this. That.

It’s not about the quality of this.
Not this, not this.
That.

This is an appearance in that.
This isn’t really this.
This is always that.

This is like a dream.
God is like a dreamer
waving its wonder of maya.

God minus maya is that.
I minus this am that.
That is that.

2. that, oh my

Discernment, dispassion, and an earnestness for that, oh my.

Mind-training isn’t rocket science. It’s like learning how to use a hammer.

You can bang your thumb forever or hit the nail on the head.

3. Basho is big

Basho is big in Japan. There are statues of him along the narrow road to the deep north. I have seen the ones at Hiraizumi and Yamadera. His greatest haiku was the one he never wrote. Ya Matsushima.

Fleas, lice,
The horse pissing
Near my pillow
~Basho wrote this one. This is Blyth's translation.

4. to the light

Between DNA and psychological conditioning, I am.

Firewood appears to be on fire. Light is appearing as wood.

Fire is wood returning to the light.

5. beyond bee

Beyond bee and beekeeper is being.

Self-awareness is appearing in awareness.

Satcitananda is beyond words.

On the Ground of Awareness

Senses see the world, mind sees the senses, and awareness witnesses everything.

Awareness is not attention. Attention is mind superimposed on awareness. Awareness is the ground.

I think I am the mind but in reality I’m that awareness. But this is easier said than done.

This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

2. the light of awareness

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

That awareness is like a screen and this universe is like a movie which that screen also illumines. Like television.

Thus the light of awareness is the ground, the omnipresence of existence is the principle, and holistic infinity of bliss is the essence.

3. when

When the mind is turned off, it's called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it's called the dream state.

When beginningless ignorance is turned on, it's dreaming or deep sleep. When avidya is turned off, it's samadhi.

Avidya off with mind on is savikalpa, jivanmukti. And with mind off is nirvikalpa samadhi.

4. god

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god.

Not knowing your god is not knowing yourself

Beyond god is atman and atman is brahman.

5. sitting

Sitting in a sequoia tree singing out raw poetry.

I was a labyrinth in Santa Fe. I was the loneliest road in America.

By the time I got to Woodstock, there's a forest for the trees.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what's happening. 

Pure consciousness is the movie screen. Reflected consciousness is the movie.

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This is not about belief, the mind’s religion. This is simple self-awareness. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

Awareness is not only the ground of the self, awareness is the ground of the universe. Thus, I minus Avidya equals That minus Maya.

When the mind is turned off, it’s called deep sleep. When the mind is turned on, it’s called the dream state.

Everyone has a god. Even no god is a god. Not knowing your god is not knowing your self.

Self-awareness is the big bang. Self-awareness is what’s happening.

That Reveals Speech & Not Vice Versa

Whether metaphorical or scientific, no language can describe the absolute nondual Brahman. Language can only point. 

Right brain people prefer the metaphorical and left brainers like the scientific.

Be it slings & arrows of snakes & ropes or powerful equations of satcitananda is not the point.

Pointing out the pointless is.

2. appearances in the principle

Life and death are dreamlike appearances in the principle of existence.

Like waking up and instantly knowing a dream was just a dream.

You’re not the car. You’re the driver witnessing the road.

3. ananda

In the name of the effortless nondoing of existence, the intuitive nonknowing of awareness, and the affectionate nonloving of ananda.

I pledge myself to the principle of existence. Standing on the ground of awareness. Breathing in the essence of ananda.

Cause and effect is appearing in existence. Knowledge and ignorance is appearing in awareness. Love and death is appearing in ananda.

4. festival

Moonlight is the reflection of ananda.

Winter solstice is a festival of existence.

The big bang is awareness of awareness.

The Principle of Satcitananda

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

The body and the mind and all its thoughts are insentient. It’s the principle of existence which gives them the appearance of something living.

Thus they say you are the principle of existence. For the real you is Brahman.

2. Fireplace

In any working fireplace there’s firewood and woodfire.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

Firewood is to dreaming as woodfire is to reflecting as fire is the subject.

3. Thus Maya

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

For Brahman to be Brahman, Brahman must be beyond all definitions of spacetime.

Whatever appears to be changeable or limited is not Brahman. And Brahman is all there is. Thus Maya.

4. Moonlight

Between ego (I'm somebody) and the principle of existence (I) is reflected existence (I am).

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Deconstruct yourself like digging out a loved one following a catastrophic earthquake.

5. Awareness aware of awareness

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.

Are we are on some karmic timeline in that self-reflexive universe?

Self-realization is spontaneous. It only appears to take 13 billion years.

0. My self-reflexive universe

Existence is beyond divine. It’s a principle.

Wood is born and cut down. Fire is an eternal principle.

The logic of nonduality requires the paradox of Maya. Otherwise Brahman cannot be Brahman.

Between the earth and the sun is the moon. Coyotes howl. We sunbathe in its moonlight.

Awareness aware of awareness appears like a self-reflexive universe.

A Paradox Called Maya

The universe is this holographic dream of Brahman.

Not only is this dream appearing in Brahman, it’s nothing but Brahman.

Brahman does not create this dream. It’s a paradox called Maya.

2. three Gods with one Maya

From the point of view of the first two powers of Maya, God is Saguna Brahman.

From the point of view of a third power of Maya, the principle of existence is Nirguna Brahman.

Nirguna Brahman witnesses the universe. Saguna Brahman plays three Gods with one Maya.

3. waiting for its next move

They say nondoing is hard to do.

They say nondoing isn’t something to be done.

They say nondoing is following your heart and waiting for its next move.

4. enough said

Not only does no one get out of here alive, no one gets here born.

In duality, one is the body or the mind after all. 

In nonduality, enough said.

5. No one gets here born octet

Not only does no one get out of here alive.

No one gets here born.

In duality, one is the body or the mind.

In nonduality, enough said.

I am not an object to be illumined by a mind. I am self-luminous.

Only awareness is aware of awareness.

They say with discernment comes dispassion and with dispassion is self-realization. 

Viveka! Viveka! Viveka!

I Am Pure Consciousness

Consciousness is not what you think it is. The mind reflects pure consciousness. (Some call this reflection, consciousness, and pure consciousness, awareness.) Reflected consciousness is what you think consciousness is, but pure consciousness is not this consciousness. 

One can lose this kind of consciousness but awareness can't be lost. Awareness is not a thing in space-time. In fact, space-time appears in awareness. Not only does awareness witness both dream states of the mind (sleeping and waking) but deep sleep (mind off) too.

Consciousness appears in awareness as I Am appears in That. Ignorance of this fact is what makes one human. Dispelling this ignorance is like losing the human form. I am not reflected consciousness. Reflections are the stuff of dreams. I am pure consciousness. Real, not opinion.

2. fearlessence

They say Maya has three powers.

First, it veils; this is called ignorance.

Second, it projects; this is called the dream state.

Third, it reveals; this is called nondual wisdom. 

I pledge my being to that principle of existence. 

I take my stand on that ground of consciousness.

I breathe that fearlessence of holistic bliss infinity.

3. waiting for ananda

driving like star wars in this redwood forest of california where the elk and the ewok play

i am high upon a big sur starry bench with thomas merton and an infinite pacific beneath our wings

standing on the corner of existence street and consciousness waiting for ananda.

4. key

it looks like saguna but it's really nirguna.

superimposition is the key.

you are not a snake.

5.

i remember surprise

i love the unmemorable

snow in san alsemo

6.

Saguna Yoga

Believing people don’t exist is easy thinking.

Knowing you don’t takes the grace of God.

In the world, I am something else. In the grace of God, I am.

From samsara, the way to Nirguna Brahman is through Saguna Brahman.

2. existence

The principle of existence is the silent eye.

The voice of existence says I am.

Samsara hears many things but only loves some of them.

3. that I Am

God is the one manifestation of nonduality.

Consciousness reflecting in the mind makes up many worlds.

Between the principle of existence and this variety of worlds is that I Am.

4. 

The dark side of the moon is who you think you are.

Sometimes I go howling at that full reflection in the sky.

I am sings Werewolves of London from New York to Old Bombay.

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In the world, I am something else. In the grace of God, I am. From samsara, the way to Nirguna Brahman is through Saguna Brahman.

The principle of existence is the silent eye. The voice of existence says I am. Samsara hears many things but only loves some of them.

God is the one manifestation of nonduality. Consciousness reflecting in the mind makes up many worlds. Between the principle of existence and this variety of worlds is that I Am.

The dark side of the moon is who you think you are. Sometimes I go howling at that full reflection in the sky. I Am sings Werewolves of London from New York to Old Bombay.

a. Satcitananda is Brahman

There is a time to appear on mountains and a time for mountains to appear in you.

This is the time for mountains to appear in you. Check now if you’re in the right room.

You are not material. The stuff of dreams is conceptual.

The principle of existence is nonconceptual.

Tattvamasi Story

It’s not in God we trust but in God I am. 

For Maya is the power and the glory of Nirguna Brahman.

And God is wielding that Maya conjuring this dream world.

I am, I know, I love. Yes, Parabrahman is Satcitananda.

2.

I have been one to say attention equals awareness plus thought. After further review, I am now saying attention equals awareness plus life (prana, I Am) plus thought.

Be it as it may, between Ego and the Principle of Existence is God. In fact, Life is the Voice of God singing of Nirguna Brahman.

God is life. Life sings I Am.

Ego says I am something else.

The land of death drones on.

Listen to those waves.

3.

Consciousness and existence are beyond imagination

like the sea is beyond any of its islands

until you dip your toe into that water.

4.

Belief is this wasteland.

Revelation is that lightning.

Basho is reflecting on thunder.

5.

Lightning is the dark side of the sun.

The will of god equals the wisdom of maya.

I am that in which all this is appearing.

Brahman and Powers of Three

1. The Sea of I Am

In the ordinary world of samsara, there are attributes of ignorance, the gunas of rajas and tamas, busyness and inertia, doing and not doing. These are Maya’s powers of projection and veiling.

In primordial Maya, the quantum power of Isvara God, there is the effortless nondoing and intuitive nonknowing of the sattva guna. Revelation is Maya’s other power.

I am, I know, I love! God, Saguna Brahman, is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. In reality, there is the principle of existence, ground of consciousness, and essence of bliss. Nirguna Brahman.

2. like

The sun is like that self-shining pure consciousness.

The full moon is like a mind of reflected consciousness in love.

This shadowy world is like conditioned consciousness in its war of long division.

3. In Reality Aham Brahmasmi

In the world I am somebody. In universal consciousness I am. 

I am, I know, I love that harmonious expression of Satcitananda.

The Sea of I Am is holding me afloat until I take you in.

4. God Itself

November in Bar Harbor and the wind begins to blow.

Like March in Grand Canyon when the sun begins to rise.

Spacetime is God Itself appearing in Absolute Reality.

5. Dreams do not know reality

Define your words. Don’t let your words define you.

One does not sense existence. Existence senses you. This is called intuition.

Reality expresses itself in dreams. Dreams do not know reality.

Dreams deconstruct themselves until reality takes them in.

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I am, I know, I love! God, Saguna Brahman, is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

This shadowy world is like conditioned consciousness in its war of long division.

The Sea of I Am is holding me afloat until I take you in.

Spacetime is God Itself appearing in Absolute Reality.

Dreams are deconstructing themselves until reality takes them in.

Brahman is not Maya

The waves are water and water is the sea. But the sea is not the waves. Brahman is not Maya.

Like I am not these brain waves. I am that consciousness in which brain waves are appearing.

In Brahman and of Brahman but they’re not the nondual Brahman. Atman is.

2. garbage in and garbage out is appearing

Although the body-mind appears in consciousness (despite government-funded efforts of big materialism to prove otherwise), we identify with the body-mind. It’s crazy like the sea identifying with a desert island.

Pay attention. Attention equals awareness plus thought. In egoic consciousness, thought is primary. In awakening consciousness, awareness is primary.

I am neither the input of the senses nor the output of the mind. I am that pure consciousness in which such garbage in and garbage out is appearing.

3. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome

When I was young, the great outdoors was this space best lit for my mind.

I'm younger than that now. I know the great outdoors appears within my light.

Maya appears in myself. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome. I am Brahman. 

4. Mahavakya

Perambulating the southern dunes of Plum Island which are strictly off limits to my kind but November makes me do it.

On the highest dunes of Agawam, I see a Snowy Owl just like a Cheshire Cat with eyes that go forever.

Voila!