Katha Outline (sandeepany)

The Harder Stuff

The metaphysics of advaita isn’t theoretical although it makes more sense than other physics.

Advaita is an experiential thing if anything at all. But it’s one thing to know consciousness is foundational. It’s another to identify with that.

O Mama, I’m like stuck between the rock and hard place of consciousness.

2. waves

It's easy to see through the waves when you live at sea. 

When you live in a virtual desert, you first need to know what waves are.

3. atman

Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor.

~Katha 1.2.7 (tr-Nikhilananda)

4. maya

Between the individual and the universal is avidya. Between the universal and the absolute is maya.

They say avidya may be ending in this lifetime. But Maya only closes at the end of Brahma's day.

5. brahman

The universal knows it is the absolute like Brahma knows it’s Brahman. 

Thus an individual knowing it’s the universal spontaneously is the absolute.

x. advaita

Gaudapada, at the least, teaches us how to die.

It's not about dying before you die but never being born.

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1.

It’s Pike’s Peak or Bust. Do not take the Donner Pass.

I imagine Shankaracharya as an eighth-century Sheldon Cooper.

Saguna Brahman is Brahman from Maya’s point of view.

2.

Twenty years of nonduality and all I got was this invisible t-shirt.

In a perfect world, mind gathers, intelligence reports, and intuition acts.

Awareness being self-aware happens on the field of Maya.

3.

First, attention minus thought equals parabrahman.

Murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur, murmur.

From an absolute point of view, this is not happening.

4.

From a relative point of view,

handle things with care.

Treat all bruises with love.

5.

To deny existence requires existence.

If thoughts appear in consciousness,

who am I? Love is never having to say.

6.

We are waves who think

we’re not the sea.

This is living dangerously.

7.

Objects appearing in the mind are closer than you think.

Children are conceived.

Consciousness is unborn.

8.

Mountaineering is primitive self-inquiry.

Psychotherapy is the midpoint of all mountaineering.

Peaking is peaking.

For Ishwara

Like a table is mostly space
an individual is mostly love
with a little bit of dangerous thought.

People are just waves who think
they’re not the sea.
This is living dangerously.

Inhabit the life lightly.
This is your real lucid dreaming.
One way at a time.

On Divine Grace

Feel the radioactivity of mad divine grace from that great big satguru in the sky!

Divine grace is part electric socket and part lightning and thunder.

Before the turn is strictly karmic. After the turn is all about divine grace.

Basho Oku No Hosomichi

Why has no vlogger done a thorough travelog on oku no hosomichi?

I followed his footsteps in hiraizumi, matsushima, and yamadera. I would love to see all that went on north of the shirakawa barrier.

Hiraizumi

(tr-stryk)

Summer grasses

All that remains

Of soldiers’ dreams

Yamadera

(tr-matsuobashohaikublog)

Ah, the Quiet, but piercing the Rocks — the Cry of the Cicada

Matsushima

Matsushima ya

Aa matsushima ya

Matsushima ya

All World Breaking Out (for Shankara, Arthur M, and Julian of Norwich)

The concept of avidya

(beginningless ignorance) is like original sin

without the god-fearing gods.

In this reflection of consciousness in paradise

the mind naturally sides with itself

and all world breaks out.

All shall be well—

it’s just the self-reflexive play between awareness and self-awareness

where consciousness meets the road.

paraversical version

The concept of avidya (beginningless ignorance) is like original sin without the god-fearing gods.

In this reflection of consciousness in paradise, the mind naturally sides with itself. And all world breaks out.

All shall be well—it’s just the self-reflexive play between awareness and self-awareness where consciousness meets the road.

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1. looney nonduality

Transcending space-time is Brahman. 

Transcending me is Atman.

Atman is Brahman.

That’s all folks

2. geological theology

the universe is the cause.

this universe is the result.

to any so-called individual

this looks like the grace of god.

3. witchery belief

Politics is the witchery of making

one side look universally.

Belief is like a leaf refusing to fall.

Holistic bliss infinity, oh my.

The Unified Field Anti-Theory

String theory is like a day in the park for Maya. How many dimensions would you like? Maya has ten thousand of them.

The Newtonian universe is what happens when the mind processes input from the senses, and the quantum universe when processing input from itself.

In the nondual universe, the mind is an appearance in consciousness-existence and therefore incapable of processing that which is greater than itself.

Intuitive nonknowing and effortless nondoing is how the mind receives the truth from consciousness-existence.

Comply or Inquire Gita

People identify with their minds.

There’s nothing wrong with this.

It’s a socially acceptable condition.

But the fact is the mind is

a beautiful dividing machine.

So taking sides is what people do.

The horrors of war begins at such an early age.

If having the stain of war upon your hands is fine,

stay the original course.

Otherwise, turn and inquire within.

If the mind appears in consciousness,

why don’t I identify with that?

With every such notion surrendered,

Atman brings you closer to the truth.