Saturday, April 1, 2023

On Perennial Self-Inquiry

Nonduality is myth and not belief. But reality is easier to believe than realize.

Look, nonduality is like a map published by a trusted source. 

It tells you where you are metaphysically speaking and where truth is.

Careful, just because truth is on your map doesn’t mean you’re there.

Neither does it mean you’re not. That’s where honest self-inquiry comes into play.

It follows non-abiding realization is a common understanding.

Believing it's abiding is a common misunderstanding.


Friday, March 31, 2023

on brahman pond

in isvara universally reflexive maya

an evolutionary admixture of functional compounds and organic chemicals is becoming so subtle

pure consciousness is reflecting perfectly off it's early evening glassy surface

Isvara Paradoxos

If brahman is one without a second, then this must be maya.

If brahman is one without a second, then my essential self is brahman.

If brahman is not one without a second—that’s just maya talking.


Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Visions of Advaita

Nonduality is divine imagination—deconstruction and revelation; existence, consciousness, and bliss. One’s highest self is the absolute reality.

The world is name and form superimposed upon being-awareness-infinity. Without a doubt, nihilism is one of the greatest feats of imagination.

In advaita, self-evident existence, self-shining consciousness, and self-contained bliss is satcitananda, the nature of brahman the absolute.

Satcitananda is one brahman in three tantamount aspects, the holy trinity of nonduality. Real myth is divine imagination. The world is imagination through a glass darkly.


Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Mahavidya 2

The second mahavakya Vidyaranya explicates is aham brahmasmi.

Focusing on the first word of the three words—aham, or I—

what does this I represent, the physical or metaphysical? 

This is essentialy self-inquiry: the I is paramatman, the supreme unlimited self.

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Mahavidya One

Pure consciousness is the witness of reflected consciousness which by the eye is not seen but by which the seeing is seen, that I of I Am, the prajnanam of jnanam.

How marvelous! The consciousness of any creature in creation is the same one consciousness of the Creator itself. 

Consciousness not only passes through the eye of a needle but encompasses the cosmos. Prajnanam brahma.


Monday, March 20, 2023

Ode to Pink Panther

Julia of Norwich wore the pink panther faithfully. There are two macrocosmic universes: general relativity and quantum mechanics. And so on. It’s not as much scriptures as revelations. It’s not as much free will as non-doing. It’s not about how it should be but as it is.

It's neither religious nor scientific nor all the sub-divisions. Being is intuitive. Separate the wheat from the chaff. The gem in their pocket is your gem. The lint in their pocket is their lint. My paraverse is busy separating my gem from their lint. Owning it intuitively is sometimes called lectio divina.

Self-realization is not a goal. It happens. It’s like this transcendental stage of evolution within the subtle body of brahman. Enlightenment is a popular name for it. One day at a time. Don’t take it personal. Do your best. As one is well aware, waking is gradually spontaneous.