my paraverse of advaita
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shizukasa ya / iwa ni shimi-iru / semi no koe In New England, Mount Washington is like the Absolute. Actually, the Gulf of Maine is like the Absolute. Mount Washington is like Isvara, first in our hearts. I never conquered Washington but I did do Lafayette. Negotiating Lafayette is why I'm in the mile-high club. I merely drove up Mount Mitchell and Pike's Peak. Silence! Entering rock and slowly…
Space isn't nothing. Space is the manifestation of consciousness. Time is measured in seconds. It's the third dimension of duality. A square circle is unreal. Consciousness-existence is real. Thinking and living is mithya.
Saguna Brahman creates spacetime with its power of Maya. This foremost God is called Isvara in Vedanta. Praise be! Like reflections of clouds in a lake, like dreams in a sleeping mind— spacetime appears in the timeless and spaceless Nirguna Brahman.
1. Ten Thousand Tongues The mind appears in Brahman. The mind is made of Brahman. The mind is activated by Brahman. The mind is witnessed by Brahman. There is nothing for Turiyam to witness. The mind creates in twos. The mind deconstructing itself is nondual. Nothing said is completely true. Every word speaks in ten thousand tongues. They say wisdom points. But everyone is looking from their own…
You are that. I am Brahman. You minus maya are brahman. I minus avidya am atman. Ayam atma brahma. Dreams are relatively real from the viewpoint of a dream. Dreams appear in the mind and are made out of mind. The waking dream appears in consciousness and is made out of consciousness. Further, consciousness is brahman. There's nothing to do unless you're a doer. If so, stop doing that. Nondoing is…
1. Treasuring Oneself Some say the metaphysical ground of nondual consciousness is ordinary awareness and that's true if such nonconceptual awareness is understood to be the witness of both dream states and deep sleep as well. The universe is Brahman with attributes arising from the power of Maya called Isvara, that universal consciousness, god of gods. An individual consciousness such as a person…
In the post-war years, western and western-inspired scholarship, notably that of Paul Hacker and Sengaku Mayeda, has tended to show that the only surviving independent work that can with safety be ascribed to Śaṃkara is the Upadeśa Sāhasrī or Thousand Teachings in both its prose and verse parts—though it would be incautious to suppose that there was finality in this judgement. ~A.J. Alston 1.…
Dropping the metaparadigm of scientific materialism is job one. But it's not a matter of doing or not doing but effortless nondoing. The body-mind doesn't manufacture consciousness like a dark satanic mill. Consciousness is the nondual substrate upon which a body-mind is superimposed. People are like silver balls in a pinball machine not knowing it. The power of brahman is maya. Avidya is its…
Philosophy is full of words. There are four mahavakyas used in countless variations. If consciousness is the metaphysical gound called brahman, and the innermost self called atman is brahman, then I am brahman, tattvamasi. footnotes 1. I minus avidya equals that minus maya means tattvamasi. 2. Objects are seen in the mind when the mind is turned on for both dream states. 3. When the mind is turned…
Consciousness-existence is the ground upon which this world is turning, twisting, slithering. Don't take this personally but you're not a person. Deconstruct the smoke and mirrors until suddenly things become transparent. You're beyond spacetime and there are no words. Footnotes 1. For the destruction of ignorance, the cessation of saṃsara, and the establishment of Brahma-vidya, take Shankara: —…
