To Beatles and Beyond

Our introduction to the world is our conditioning. The less an introduction, the less the conditioning. Thanks, Dad.

I was taught to be afraid of the world. Mother wasn't wrong. It's just Samsara isn't the truth either.

They say, turn off your mind. Relax and flow upstream. The river is tidal. I am not dying. Play the game. Existence to the end. Of the beginningless. Of the beginning.

Note: later that day, fyi the final overdubs of Tomorrow Never Knows were recorded on 22 April 1966. Sixty years ago today. I did not know that until just now. Coincidence, serendipity, destiny, or a fourth way?

Our Sonnet

Sunny Saturday in early April—

Forsythia Suspensa!

And no sign of cherry blossoms yet.

Sunroof open and radio on—

I'm in love with Massachusetts.

Without memory there's no desire.

"I need you more than want you and I want you for all time."

Saturday is Saturn's day.

Saturn is the god of time.

Its ring of timelessness is crow.

From the principle of existence springs the river.

In the ground of consciousness appears a way.

I love I know I am. 

You can tell everybody this is our sonnet.

Absolutely Om / Turiya

Om Jesus. Om Beatles. Om Joni Mitchell singing paradise and parking lots. Om Van the Man into the Mystic.

Om Anne Bradstreet. Om Good Gray Poet in a Supermarket. Om White Whale. Om Walden Pond. Om Desolation Peak.

Om New Testament. Om Tao Te Ching. Om Four Agreements. Om Here and Om Now. Om Tattvamasi. Om Aum.

A is the waking state. U is dreaming. M is deep sleep. Substrate to such superimpositions is the satcitananda silence called the Fourth.

Turning on a Metaparadigm

Atman is neither the seed of consciousness as unmanifested Maya nor that god of universal omniscient consciousness called Isvara—Atman is Brahman.

Brahman both pervades and transcends this universe like ocean air does to an island atmosphere—imperceptible, unreachable, and indescribable.

Consciousness is that foundational "one self intuition essence" and not some highly refined product of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen as scientific materialism preaches without proof.

The social conditioning of scientific atheistic materialism is the greatest obstruction to self-awareness in the current western world.

That the world appears in consciousness is common experience yet we've bought this snake oil advertising—

consciousness as a product of the material world and we drink of it until it becomes our metaparadigm. Turn, turn, turn, my friend.

To Self-awareness

From awareness to self-awareness appears as space-time but in reality is spontaneous.

I know I am takes space and time. From a snake to a rope is a self-reflexive universe.

First principle is existence. People die for it. Ground is consciousness. Materialism be damned.

A Consciousness Hero

Being existence presence consciousness awareness intelligence holistic infinity bliss, oh my.

First you're conditioned by karmic DNA and then they lock you in space-time instead of it all.

Maya is beginningless and the seed of mind. Atman is not a seed of consciousness

nor omniscient consciousness. Brahman is indescribable. Ayam atma brahma is turiyam.

Can't You See?

Duality can't be proved. Nonduality is beyond proof. Story at eleven eleven.

That which is higher proves something lower. Thus the mind can't prove itself.

Nondual awareness is the highest ground, can't you see? 

The mind is reflected consciousness and reflections are lower states by definition.

Turiyam, Turiyam

In Samsara, there is doing and not doing.

In Isvara is nondoing.

Turiyam.

Brahman is consciousness-existence.

Maya is the sword of Brahman.

Turiyam.







~rj35

Jijnasu Zen of Both and Neither

Consciousness-existence is the silver screen.

The mind is the movie. To be or not to be?

Am I the movie or the movie screen?

~rj34

Song of Isvara

Brahman lives at the crossroads of Saguna and Nirguna.

That Great Square where the power of Maya veils and unveils!

This is where the Gita and Mandukya coexist. Om.

~rj33

In the Dark Side of the Sun

1.

Consciousness-existence transcends space-time. 

It is one without a second and a second with no time.

It doesn't have a reason. It transcends all rhyme.

2.

I am of that order of the principle of existence. 

I know the ground of consciousness like the back of my mind.

I am here transcending space. I am right now beyond time.

~rj32

Ten Revelations

Seeing through a glass wall
isn't bad for the eyes.
There is no snake.
The rope is a vehicle.
That's Maya, Jack.
DNA is the stuff of karma.
Time is like a family tree.
Space is forgiveness.
The god of atheism is theism.
Atma of Brahma is Brahman.

~rj31

On High and Lo

The lower cause is transformational.

The higher cause is apparitional.

Thinking is the lower cause.

Pure consciousness is the highest.

Dreaming is the lowest state. 

Self-awareness is the highest.

~rj30

Aum/Ohm

In Maya, Brahman is two-faced. In reality, Brahman is one without a second.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are the two sides of That in nonduality.

The truth of Turiyam is beyond Brahman and Atman as quantum physics is to classical mechanics. 

~rj29

My Valentine's Day Ananda

Consciousness is the absolute truth.

Consciousness is such a hard problem thinks science.

Even the highest wave of consciousness studies can never know that sea.

I love I know I am.

~rj28~

Dreaming Brahman

Isvara is the lucid dreamer.

The jiva is the sleeping dreamee.

Wake unto Turiya, om.

Say Isvara

An individual is a component of the universal. Without the universal, there is no individual.

If a human individual possesses personality is that personality a component too?

Of a universal personality? Say Isvara? Let us pray.

~rj26

All Superimpositions Must Pass

One could say Brahman is smaller than a mustard seed and larger than the multiverse if Brahman didn't transcend space-time itself.

Brahman is, Gaudapada says, neither a seed of consciousness nor omniscient consciousness, neither unmanifested Maya nor that omnipotent Isvara.

Brahman is not reflected consciousness although reflected consciousness is Brahman. All brilliant names and shadowy forms appear in The Lake of Pure Consciousness. 

~rj25

Isvara Help

Scientific atheists of the west are between gods, Isvara help them.

Isvara is Brahman as seen from the point of view of Maya.

Maya is the snake in the rope, a desert mirage, fool's gold, Texas tea.

~rj24

God is a conscious being who must necessarily have all-knowledge and all power/skill to create, sustain and resolve the jagat. We will replace the word God, with the word Īśvara because it is an unabused Sanskrit word, so far. ~Dayananda

On God, The Universe, or Isvara

If there's an individual consciousness, there's a universal consciousness to deify.

Call it God, The Universe, or Isvara, simple acknowledgment is worship enough.

Denying this basic recognition is the height of self-deceit making real self-inquiry infeasible.

~rj23

It is true there is one Reality that appears as the universe, as the individualized knowing self, that appears as the Ruler of the universe. Yet, as long as you acknowledge one of these three, you have to acknowledge the other two also. ~Satprakashananda