God and Brahman

God is nature.

Spacetime appears in Brahman.

The universe appears in God

and God appears in Brahman.

Atman is Brahman is Turiyam

Atman is not exactly like a soul. It's not inside a person. The person appears inside it.

Similarly, the universe is appearing in Brahman, that great absolute godhead.

My real self is not the mind. Without the mind, there's deep sleep. Without consciousness, who am I?

The Lamp of Awareness

The reflected consciousness of attention is ordinary awareness for most

and not that real awareness which witnesses even the state of deep sleep when the mind is turned off. 

Thus this actual awareness is not ordinary so to speak but neither is it extraordinary. It's a natural lamp.

This Subtle Universe

Although Atman is universally present in the material world of Maya without any distinction at all, 

Its presence is felt in different degrees due to the varying subtleties of the medium through which It manifests.

Bedrock is least subtle. Gods are grown from the subtlest of all. And people are subtle and really somewhat not.

Springtime Fireworks in Brahman

Awareness is and suddenly there is an appearance in awareness. The mind quickly draws a picture until a match is made in memory and stops. Awareness never ends.

Even the body-mind is an appearance in awareness so subtle in its evolution, it's reflecting consciousness as some inner instrument superimposed on Brahman.

There's the revelation of divine imagination in this manifestation of self-awareness. Maya is the why and how. Chrysanthemum! Roman Candle! Weeping Willow!

Reflexive Coyote

Not too far from the Bay of Fundy is the Gulf of Maine and why there's ten foot tides here

as the hydrologic apocalypse called the mouth of the Merrimack River returns to Brahman.

North is Salisbury Beach where Frank Sinatra once played The Frolics in 1950. 

South is Plum Island where Masconomet knows the truth of Atman and calls it real Agawam.

Ode to Sargent Mountain Pond

Between Sargent & Penobscot Mountains in Acadia NP is Sargent Mountain Pond believed to be the very first lake in Maine formed after the last glacial period known as the Ice Age. 

From personal hiking experience, it's like a spot of paradise. I once witnessed Adam and Eve and Abel swimming there in primordial Maya one June afternoon.

People of the Dawnland call this pond The Lake of Clouds. For the veiling of Self is beginning here on its way to cover those pink granite peaks with thick fog from that cold eastern sea.

Only Ignorance

All things must change. Only ignorance dies.

The universe is beginningless. Only ignorance dies.

Ignorance says that I die. The wise say only ignorance dies.

Transcendental Merrimack River Spring

The forest floor begins to burn bright green in April and by early May is enveloping even the tops of trees. By June, the woods will be enlightening!

By the fourth of May, docks are in the river like a crossword puzzle just begun. A fleet of pleasure boats will fill them in from now to Memorial Day with names like Viveka, Vairagya, Shama, Dama, Mumuksu.

There's a blue moon due on the 31st of May. A mystical midnight river interlude will sparkle like the reflection of consciousness realizing Ayam Atma Brahma.

From Slop to Buddha

As buddhi (intellect) reflects

buddha (intelligence),

slop (artificial intellect) reflects

mind (artificial intelligence).

As buddhi reflects buddha,

slop reflects mind.

Revelation Peak

A god not only knows reality. Gods are unattached to anything which isn't.

Knowing reality is the way. Withdrawing from the world is just its wake.

Children will be children. Gods will be gods. And the gurus will speak in tongues.

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