The Summer of Consciousness

The forty days of first midsummer begins today.

Here the lilacs are just a day or two away from full bloom.

Walking along the early river today—the docks are in but the boats are not.

It looks like a great rebirth but nothing dies in winter. It just sleeps.

What dreams do oak trees dream? My dreams are not reborn.

Something happens in the frog pond and I am.

The rest is just conditioning, epiphany, and deconstruction.

footnotes

variations in mizu no oto

"""I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was."""

"""O powerful western fallen star!

O shades of night—O moody, tearful night!

O great star disappear’d—O the black murk that hides the star!

O cruel hands that hold me powerless—O helpless soul of me!

O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul."""

"""Sittin' in the mornin' sun

I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come

Watching the ships roll in

And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay

Watching the tide roll away

Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay

Wastin' time"""

"""But not so with the skunk-cabbage. Its withered leaves fall and are transfixed by a rising bud. Winter and death are ignored; the circle of life is complete. Are these false prophets?"""

~shakespeare, whitman, redding, & thoreau

"""in the end, the causes for

a crow's caw are endless

—the universe is the cause and

the universe its result—

thus crow caws

the causelessness of crow"""

"""Into the ancient pond

A frog jumps

Water’s sound!"""

"""old pond

frog leaping

splash"""

"gene pool

genesis

the water of sound"

"""One could also see the virgin birth as an awakening of what has been there all along. I have made much of this point in my theory, in the idea of the arc and the turn, and have applied it to all life. For example, the seed falls to the ground..."""

~rivers, basho (tr-suzuki), basho (tr-corman), basho (tr-rivers), young

"furu ike ya

kawazu tobikomu

mizu no oto

~basho"

The Missionary Statement

Truth devolves into religion. It’s part of evolutionary self-awareness. Let it be.

The universe of reflexive self-awareness must hit bottom, both physically and psychologically.

Belief is all about ends justifying means, be it either for ego or god. Every missionary serves its empire of belief.

Advaita Vedanta since Shankara has been as much a true religion as any fundamental Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Scientific you.

The world is their convenient fiction. Meta-myth is mine.

Consciousness is burning through these eyes.

I am the consciousness burning through these eyes.

My Self-awareness is the I am consciousness burning through these eyes.

Self-shining consciousness is brahman, brah.

Purple Amness

All words are metaphors. All metaphors are pointing to

the nameless. Believing any particular metaphor to be wrong

is just as foolish as the fool and holy finger. No metaphor is right.

Consciousness is like that hot dense state in the big bang theory

but experientially it feels like deep sleep feels.

Like that purple color in-between byzantium or plum.

Never Not Self-Shining Consciousness

There is consciousness and states of unenlightened, or occluded, consciousness. There are no higher states of consciousness.

There is light and filtered light of every color under the sun. Color is never not light.

Deconstruction is like seeing through the colors. Meditation is like being light.

Thoughts are very colorful. Getting caught in a thought is the rabbit hole of belief. Baby I’m a maze!

One is never not one self. One forgets oneself remembering memory as oneself.

Of course, I’m not a memory, but who am I? If not the known, the unknown.

a sonnet of notes

six footnotes

1. space-time is the first state of unenlightened consciousness. the mandukya calls this state, deep sleep.

2. light is like love and the filter is belief. emotion is the color. rage, rage, against the dying of the light.

3. see through daytime. be the light.

4. if one attaches to a thought, the thought projects itself to no end.

5. the lower-case self is the antiself.

6. real slow. memory is another name for forgetting. forgetting memory is another name for remembering myself. spontaneous self-awareness.

eight end notes

fear is the known. the unknown is fearless.

social conditioning is a horror show.

social media is psychological warfare.

belief is the dreamstate virus.

all religions, i.e. beliefs, including scientific materialism, lead to some dead end.

consciousness is neither dead nor alive.

self-shining consciousness is natural awareness. and ananda.

return of satcitananda!

afterword

one cure for hiccups is to breathe in as deep as possible and then to release the breath as slow as possible.

part one is mind training. part two is embodiment.

spacetime is emptiness, emptiness is spacetime.

i'm the world's worst hypochondriac.

sooner or later, i know better.

sooner or later, i'll have an alibi. or some new alias.

breathe. this is the last resort. paradise!

take no sides prisoner.

projection is the natural course of events.

it's always something you ate.

people don't eat belief. people eat true believers. political science 101.

thank you aunt einah.

consciousness asleep is psychosomatic.

cause is effect, effect is cause.

cause and effect appears in that pause between breaths.

i used to be a good speller. i'm younger than that now.

Buy me a flute and a gun that shoots

Tailgates and substitutes

Strap yourself to a tree with roots

You ain't goin' nowhere

~Bob Dylan

in the name ot unity, bodhi, and bliss.

power up! or whatever metaphor floats your boat.

i - t = i

Mind Dreams

If the world is physical and dreaming is mental, deep sleep is the immaculate conception.

The big bang happens every morning like clockwork, or groundhog day. Every man a king, every day a universe.

The immaculate conception is spacetime without thought or thought-forms. This is blowing my mind:

as thought, of course, must come before a thought-form, the dreaming state actually precedes the waking state

and not vice versa as you think. Spacetime, dreamtime, daytime–it’s the downwards vector of this reflexive universe.

In other words, dreams should foretell. They only don’t because yesterday’s universe wasn’t dropped at bedtime.

Sneak preview: lucid dreaming comes after daytime. Lucid dreaming isn't what one thinks. But that which one loves.

 

a process of footnotes

1. spacetime is subatomic.

2. memory is karma.

3. the unborn being born is basically the big bang.

4. the unborn being born is the definition of a dream.

5. in this way, dreamtime is obviously aboriginal.

6. lucid dreaming is seeing through memory.

lucid dreaming is to dreamtime as meditating self-shining consciousness or rigpa is to spacetime.

7.

a.

all religions mean well.

but all is well already.

beyond dreamtime is lucidtime.

beyond spacetime is meditation.

beyond awareness is self-awareness.

b.

deconstruction is the anti-form of lucid dreaming.

i love that every word is defined by more words.

spacetime. dreamtime. daytime. turiya.

spacetime. dreamtime. daytime. beyond spacetime, dreamtime, daytime. turiya.

i love my swiss knife.

awareness. spacetime. dreamtime. daytime. lucid loving deconstruction. intuition, contemplation, meditation. self-awareness.

The Heart of Electric Nonduality

Self-shining consciousness is natural awareness. This is the heart of electric nonduality.

Don’t let the nouns get in the way of experiential adjectives.

Pay attention to your crown chakra. That’s actually your third eye. Now downloading.

There’s nothing you can do but let it happen if you need to sing along.

Just because it’s nonconceptual doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like something.

the four footnotes of the heart of electric nonduality

jake, it's ananda

i play in a power trio

with sat and cit

i play lead guitar

we call ourselves electric nonduality

scientific materialism is all greek and roman but no ananda

call me son ananda

ananda is not conceptual. it will blow your mind.

in the world, ananda is experienced as unconditional love

i was fortunate enough to have a daughter

third eye, first eye

atman is brahman

is disbelief

son rivers has been a son ananda production.

feeling is the new listening.

the mind uses the body to send messages to itself.

consciousness uses the mind for self-awareness.

feeling is not a sixth sense. it is the first.

losing touch with intuition is the tragedy of hamlet.

ananda, ananda, ananda.

Seeing Through the Looking Mind

There are non-conceptual peepers in the Massachusetts wetlands tonight.

Non-conceptual experience is needed for the mind to do its work.

This mirroring myself is taking a spacetime of sleeping, dreaming, and awakening.

Don’t throw away the baby with the bathwater.

Don’t throw away the mind with the world.

As it is above, self-awareness is below.

Quantum science and physical science are united in a universe of reflexive self-awareness.

It’s perfectly well to think all is not well.

This is where Arrested Development contradicts appearances and says that all is well.

One comes to non-conceptual self-awareness through samsara.