For Brahmavidya and Self-realization

1. For Brahmavidya and Self-realization

It’s the metaphysics of Advaita which makes it work for me. The foundational focus on existence (I am) and consciousness (I know), along with that holistic bliss infinity of ananda, as the nondual trinity of satcitananda, is genius.

And Maya! That magic wand of the Brahman-god-with-attributes creating this fantasy, this play, this dream, this grand illusion, merely an appearance in the nondual absolute like a movie on a movie screen.

I’m not in it for the moksha but for brahmavidya and self-realization: seeing through this beginningless ignorance to the truth of who I really am and stopping there—they say reality takes you in.

2. In Nonduality

Scientific materialism isn’t scientific. Scientific materialism is just as much a religion as the big three. Thus consciousness is a problem for the church of scientific materialism.

In Advaita, pure consciousness is the ground. Ordinary attention equals the substrate of pure consciousness plus the superimposition of thought: Brahma’s Equation.

3. I That Am

If Brahman without attributes, Nirguna Brahman, satcitananda, the nondual absolute, is timeless, infinite, and unchanging, then, by definition, spacetime is not.

It's not a matter of ghosts being real but people being ghosts. The idea of a person dies in deep sleep. Its resurrection is completely dependent on memory.

Beyond this conceptual superimposition is the the principle of existence, the ground of consciousness, and the essence of undefinability. I That am.

4. New Hampshire II

Loon Mountain / Waterville Valley / Pemigewasset Wilderness

Half Moon Lake / Blueberry Hill / Midnight Perseids

Rockingham Park Racetrack / Canobie Lake Untamed / America’s Stonehendge

Brahma's Equation

1. Brahma's Equation

The reflection of pure consciousness in the subtle body of the complex nervous system is called consciousness.

It’s called consciousness because people think it’s the pure stuff but it’s not. The mind doesn’t produce consciousness.

Even the greatest of minds is merely appearing within its nondual omnipresence like the stuff of dreams.

The ordinary consciousness of attention equals the substrate of pure consciousness plus the superimposition of thought.

a. Of the Gods, Brahmā – the Creator and the protector of the universe – was self-born, first gave out the knowledge of Reality (Brahmavidyā), the Knowledge of all knowledges, the foundation for all sciences, to his own eldest son Atharvā.

~Mundaka 1.1.1 (tr-Chinmayananda)

2. This Country of Maya

In this country of Maya, the phenomenon usurps the noumenon. The reflection of consciousness usurps pure consciousness. Consciousness is thought to be attention. Attention minus thought equals I, the witness consciousness.

3. Advaita is Neither

When the dream becomes myth, print the myth—because scientific materialism has not been able to (nor ever will) prove its theory that consciousness is a product of the body-mind—and because all religious-isms appear in consciousness fool—advaita is neither science nor belief.

4. A Snake Appears

Pure consciousness is the ground in which a snake appears. Adam eats an apple. Eve surrenders. The mind is a superimposition. To know the truth, you must see through the superimposition. Maya is going nowhere.

On Non-Knowing

1. on minds

The mind of an ant cannot know Brahman. Neither can the mind of a human being.

Minds know objects, conceptual or otherwise. Brahman is not an object, believe it or not.

Knowing Brahman is an intuitive non-knowing. It’s like knowing yourself but really.

2. on knowing

There is no reason for you to know yourself. But it does explain a lot.

Not knowing yourself hurts. Knowing yourself alleviates. That is all.

3. on satcitananda (ode to unconditional love)

I am the principle of existence. Life is meaningless without me.

I am the ground of pure consciousness. Worlds are living and dying in me.

I am that holistic bliss infinity into which unconditional love is born.

The Ballad of Atman and Brahman

Because the mind is a product of original ignorance, ignorance is beyond its reach. The mind is like an island in the middle of the beginningless avidya sea.

The wise ones say forget about this original ignorance you can never know, and know the truth you can and do know. For ultimately it’s thee.

Atman is inner as all forms of thought appear to be inside you. Brahman is outer as all external forms of a phenomenal world appear to be out there.

Don’t overthink it one way or the other. Atman is Brahman. That ultimate realization removes all sides, the wise and nondual ones say.

Selling Brahman

1.

Being all that I can be is the nondual absolute self. Just do it!

This minus ignorance equals that minus maya. You know it!

Fire hurts and even kills me but it cannot burn my real self. Get real!

2.

To just do it is effortless nondoing.

That you know it is intuitive nonknowing; it's neither knowable nor unknowable.

Every day in every way is getting real.

3.

There are three kinds of ignorance but seven states of maya.

The seventh stage of every state depends upon the first stage of the next state.

This is the last stage of maya. Let's get really self-aware.

On One Nondual Teaching

That I think I am an individual dissolves in I am Brahman. I am the all-knowing and ever-pervading Parabrahman

always witnessing the waking and sleeping dreamstates and even the deep sleep state like a movie screen.

The world of objects only manifests in the mind when the mind is manifestly dreaming, waking or sleeping.

In deep sleep, mind isn't manifest and this world has no existence. I witness deep sleep too. Duality has no existence. I am nondual.

Jazz Symphony Number One in C²

Loving Isvara

In reality, there are no persons. So how is there a personal God?

The universal reflection of pure consciousness is to Maya as individual reflections of awareness are to ignorance.

This is what the sages say. But as long as you are acting like a person, love the God you’re with.

Atheists Are People Too

What if an atheist is a person in-between gods but doesn't know it?

Such avidya is of the same principle as the one behind this reflexive universe—

it’s a long strange trip from awareness to self-awareness.

My Meta Myth

Love the God you're with.

It's a long strange trip from awareness to self-awareness.

Your metaparadigm contains a god or goddess whether you like it or not.

My Meta Myth

Love the God you're with.

It's a long strange trip from awareness to self-awareness.

Your metaparadigm contains a god or goddess whether you like it or not.

Atheists Are People Too

What if an atheist is a person in-between gods but doesn't know it?

Such avidya is of the same principle as the one behind this reflexive universe—

it’s a long strange trip from awareness to self-awareness.

Loving Isvara

In reality, there are no persons. So how is there a personal God? The universal reflection of pure consciousness is to Maya as individual reflections of awareness are to ignorance. This is what the sages say. But as long as you are acting like a person, love the God you’re with.