Intellect is a reflection of unanalyzed raw intelligence
as mind is a reflection of unfiltered pure consciousness.
Self-awareness frees the intellect while deconstructing egoic mind.
Intellect is a reflection of unanalyzed raw intelligence
as mind is a reflection of unfiltered pure consciousness.
Self-awareness frees the intellect while deconstructing egoic mind.
The metaphysics of nonduality aren't completely logical. Duality is logical. Nonduality transcends logic. Sooner or later comes a zen slap.
Maya is the power of God, Isvara, Saguna Brahman, Brahman with attributes. All attributes are Maya. Nirguna Brahman is without attributes.
They call this adhyaropa and apavada (superimposition and refutation). Universal metaphysics are so rendered only to be stripped away.
The metaphysics of nonduality is
not self-realization of course,
but it's an important way to deconstruct
the western scientific materialism metaparadigm,
and that's saying a lot.
Yes, the Self is not like deep sleep. Although deep sleep is the absence of duality, it's not the presence of nonduality.
Both dualities (the waking and sleeping dream states) and the absence of duality are pervaded by that presence of nonduality.
This permeation of all three states of reflected consciousness is like the air pervading the mists of Maya. See, there's nothing but Turiya.
The manifestation of Atman shall be my God while lucidly dreaming.
The highest nondual truth revealed in the principal Upanishads is that voice of God, Aum.
Aum is Brahma and Aum is Parabrahman. Aum is changeless. Aum.
Consciousness is the substrate. Reflected consciousness is the superimposition.
The brain is a subtle body reflecting consciousness. The mind is reflection of consciousness.
Attention is consciousness plus thought. Most think this is pure consciousness but it's not.
Pure consciousness is that nondual presence witnessing duality and deep sleep.
1. a superimposition on reality
Both the universal and the individual are limited consciousness-existence.
Whether your god is God, atheism, agnosticism, or quantum mechanics, it's but a superimposition on reality.
Pure consciousness pervades the universe like a mountain lake permeating numerous reflections.
2. that's samsara
This universal god is omniscient and super-intelligent. Reality is knowledge and intelligence oneself.
Human beings are divided units of universal consciousness which is paradoxical for God is indivisible.
That's samsara for you.
In the name of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the Power of Three, Isvara and Maya are my first twofer.
This body-mind is the fate of DNA and social conditioning. That Pure Consciousness is the witness and I Am That.
God the universal consciousness and me, individual consciousness, go together like Saguna Brahman and avidya.
The world is a mass hallucination. All beliefs, be they theistic, nationalistic, or scientific, are lesser mass hallucinations.
The Great Awakening will be homeless, without boundaries, and all alone. In the meantime, love.
Transformation, conservation, and all ruination is the very nature of this phenomenal universe: the one who completely understands this fact is invariably constant, worry-free, and becalmed.
Isvara is the maker and the material and there's nothing other than that here: the one who completely understands this fact is desireless, serene, detached.
I am not the body nor is the body mine for I am Pure Awareness: the one who completely understands this fact no longer is concerned with what one does or doesn't do, but is completely at one with oneself.
I am in everything from Brahma the Creator to a blade of grass: the one who completely understands this fact is free from all vicissitudes of thought, withdrawn from what is finished or not finished, and in complete atonement.
This manifestly wondrous universe is unreal: the one who completely understands this fact is without any dwelling, absolutely open, and placid as if nothing else existed.
Abandon all ignorance ye who exit here. It's that Himalayan bordertown, Jake. There are two states of sleep: deep and dreaming. There are two states of dreaming: subtle and phenomenal.
Subtle dreaming is called the dreaming state. Phenomenal dreaming is called the waking state. What one wants is phenomenal experience. What one needs is Brahmavidya.
Desire isn't dirty in and of itself. Desire for reality is an immaterial one. Consciousness-existence is the fire. Firewood is the body-mind. Brahmavidya knows avidya isn't vidya.
~talking AG10.1-5