Thursday, February 29, 2024

ndc240229. one giant leap day.


1.

koans don't crack mirrors.

a good koan sees through the mirror.


bad koans see through mirrors too

and the mirror cracks the koan.


2.

I once saw Ramana Maharshi raining from an infinite sky to the desert ground

Like turquoise columns seen through Mesa Arch on Island in the Sky.


3.

in the rainforest

—columbia river gorge—

i eat three pancakes


4.

two ferries crossing basho bay

—the dragon is catching the wake of a phoenix—

surfing matsushima










The Nonduality Trio

1. dedicated to the one i love

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy.

I am like that.

2. ahamasmi

I am,

I self-luminously know,

and never not beloved—

a 15th century poet writes something like that.

3. light, camera, action!

Consciousness is the highest knowledge!

Being is the greatest life!

Holistic infinity bliss is purest joy!

I shall be joining that chorus!




radio releases

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~Dedicated to The One I Love~

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy. 

I shall be joining that chorus!


~fm~

The energy of the sun is absolute existence itself.

The light of the sun is executive for all knowing.

And the warmth of the sun is good vibrations of pure joy.

Consciousness is the highest knowledge!

Being is the greatest life!

Holistic infinity bliss is purest joy!








Advaita History


 

 

Scholars have yet to provide even a rudimentary, let alone comprehensive account of the history of Advaita Vedānta in the centuries leading up to the colonial period, though this history is precisely what set the stage for its modern reception. Scholarship on Advaita Vedānta has tended to focus overwhelmingly on Sańkara, the founding figure of the tradition, but our knowledge of the thousand-year period between the Brahmasütrabhäsya and the lectures of Svāmī Vivekānanda remains largely incomplete. 

Introduction to Special Issue: New Directions in the Study of Advaita Vedānta 

Michael S. Allen, Anand Venkatkrishnan. 

International Journal of Hindu Studies (2017) 21:271-274 


 

 

 

 

 

The conclusions reached by scholars such as P. Hacker, S. Mayeda (Mayeda 1965a; Mayeda 1965b), among others, identified the works of the historical Sa´ m. kara as limited to commentaries on the Brahma-Sutra ¯ , early Upanis. ads, and the Bhagavad-G¯ıta¯, as well as the independent work Upade´sasahasr ¯ ¯ı. As important as these findings are, they have functioned, at least in the Western academy, as a kind of precedent for what counts as “authentic” Advaita Vedanta. In that way, the mid-twentieth ¯ century Indological concern for philosophically reconstructing early Advaita Vedanta, as well as ¯ the historical biography and authentic works of Sa´ m. kara, brought about a perhaps unintended consequence: later Advaita Vedantic works, particularly texts attributed to ¯ Sa´ m. kara but of later authorship, are all too often judged against the “authenticity” of the Sa´ m. karite commentarial corpus. This judgement, in fact, carries with it the subtle sense that such texts—and their soteriological and hermeneutical modalities—are inauthentic beyond the issue of authorship. 

James Madaio 

Rethinking Neo-Vedanta: Swami Vivekananda and ¯ the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedanta  

Religions 24 May 2017 

 

 

This list has been compiled based primarily on the most recent version (15 April 2010) of the online edition of Potter’s Bibliography and on Thangaswami’s Ko´sa. I have supplemented their findings by referring to Mahadevan, Preceptors of Advaita, some of the secondary sources that Potter lists, the texts themselves and the information available in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum and Raghavan’s New Catalogus Catalogorum 

Christopher Minkowski* 

Advaita Vedanta in early modern history 

South Asian History and Culture 

Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2011, 205–231