If absolute consciousness manifests as being, intelligence, and the life force, then the false is materialist, believable, and lifeless.
The mind may be insentient but these reflections of consciousness make it appear to be a seer. You are not a seer, but, like any other object or eye, the seen.
Absolute consciousness is the one and only witness. And you are not a you for one is truly the seer.
Hiking in acadia np is not about the altitude. It’s altitude plus visibility.
The highest altitude is only 1530 feet. Cadillac mountain, nee green mountain, nee wapuwoc (first light mountain).
“It is known as the first place in the continental U.S. to see the sunrise, although that is only true for a portion of the year.”
Whatever. The point is not some statistic. The point is an infinite visibility to be seen from this dawnland overlooking the gulf of maine.
Imagine hiking weathered granite steps up the lower northwestern middle earth like slope, then scrambling up a pink granite desert sage ascension to the sudden crown of infinitely blue atlantic air space!
Once you see the truth, you never forget it.
Consciousness is the expression of brahman as voiced by maya. Thus consciousness is reality but reality is not consciousness.
But for someone identifying with an individual consciousness, that universal consciousness is reality enough.
(Individual consciousness is the expression of universal consciousness as voiced by avidya.)
The name of universal consciousness is, I am. The name of individual consciousness is, I am something.
‘Something’ is a concept. ‘I am’ is the immaculate conception. One deconstructs the concept while resting as an immaculate conception. We’re not nihilists after all.
The mind is the gate. Consciousness is the gateless gate. Just wait. Brahman has no name.
The teaching is not a map to follow.
The teaching is a map for those who know they’re lost,
to let them know where they are, and how they got there.
It’s like following the cairns on a naked peak in heavy fog.
The next cairn is visible only after losing sight of the last one.
Only the unknown deconstructs the known. The mind deconstructs the mind in the way a screwdriver unscrews a screw, but what drives the screwdriver? In the art of self-awareness, the unknown is destined to forget itself first. This forgetting is called the known.
Note to myself. Satcitananda doesn’t mean intelligence, being, bliss.
Satcitananda points to that which is not unintelligent, not nonexistent, and not divided.
Intelligence and being are not difficult concepts to digest, but bliss is. Bliss doesn’t mean what you think.
Bliss as a whole is a word for that which is not divided, not suffering, not samsara.
In other words, that which is brahman is not unintelligent, not nonexistent, and not in a state of suffering.
