Love says: 'I am everything'. Wisdom says: 'I am nothing' Between the two my life flows.
In and for my own understanding—there are two lines of
spiritual inquiry establishing themselves along the lines of Indian jnana and
bhakti, which I prefer to call personal deconstruction and mystic insight, but
a well-known quote from Nisargadatta simply names them wisdom and love.
As to personal deconstruction, social conditioning is challenged
on every conceivable front including that of the modern religion of scientific
materialism.
Deconstruction without mystic
insight leads to rational nihilistic perceptions with a futile search for
scientific materialist confirmation.
Science by itself is a method of
inquiry. But materialism is an unproven faith in the fundamental nature of
material existence, a religious belief propagating theories as dogma without
investigating the obvious experiential fact that this material is an appearance
in consciousness.
For my own mythic arrangement—the
beauty of Arthur M. Young's reflexive universe is the placement of this
paradigm of material manifestation within its meta-paradigm of being—utilizing
the scientific method to discover that the universe is an evolutionary process
of self-awareness.
As to mystic insight, consciousness or being, known in
the world as unconditional love, is embraced as primary or fundamental or all.
Mystic insight without a deconstructive approach
leads to idealistic new age reverie without a mythic framework. See Apollo and
Dionysus.
Pseudo-eastern trappings are just as much new age
as Timothy Leary is dead—that's a lot of love to be without a ground to stand
on. And there's nothing immanently wrong with this. It's being lost in the
western material world looking for some overhanging myth to hang a head on.
Similarly the hopeful crowd
announcing our collective consciousness is now preparing for a better day in
some not distant newborn age is new age through and through, forgetting one’s
not of the world, as well as last lines from every film in Chinatown—forget it
friend, it’s samsara.
Beyond, one is being the
unknown.
The way as I see it—the body-mind
and its world is not to be renounced, but to be embodied as the supernode of my
universal soft machine of self-awareness, and embraced for the revelatory
dreamwork that it is.
This doesn’t imply involving oneself in the affairs
of the world. In fact, as Ramana Maharshi says—non-resistance is the highest
way. And the Diamond Sutra says the bodhisattva frees by knowing there’s no
bondage.
There is no world other than my
projection. When this simple fact is seen—there’s no one but myself—there may
be fire on the movie screen but the world isn’t really burning—and no reason to
extinguish artificial flames—embody the universal—being only is the way of
self-awareness.
Self-awareness is a private
showing.
In the west, self-effacement is somewhat easy, especially for one with an undeveloped ego. but world-effacement? How dare one?
Ego is not an individual construct. Ego IS the world and my conditioned place within it, of it.
Some find themselves in a dissociative state having lost the egoic sense of self while holding on to the egoic sense of the world—like the separation anxiety of a child who needs to hold on to a parent for dear life because the sense of self is undeveloped.
It’s not collective. It's not
preparing for some future heaven. It's even not about my helping others
although this love is in the world and dreaming does go on and some samsara
tells nirvana do what your samsara says.
The false religious and
progressive invention that the spiritual or humane height of achievement is an
egolessness displayed in one’s social consciousness—is one of the most devious
protectors of worldly egoic samsara—and the sly guarantor of no awakening from
its sleep.
This isn’t saying the liberal view
is wrong and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps in a free market world is
right. Both are neither. Love is not of the world—and one’s not a body
surviving in the world. Consciousness is fundamental. Just imagine the
inference of that truth for self-awareness.
Of
course there’s such a power as manifesting—look out my window—it’s already
happening—great intent is always manifesting my projection—urging the self to
self-awareness—the only question for one embodying the universe is—how do I
collaborate—and the answer is—divine imagination.
The Self-Reflexive
Manifestation
Words
wear out. This is why metaphor. But metaphors also wear out. This is why
paradox. Paradox never wears out—it was never here.
No
name for Tao—not spiritual—not mystical—not even nonduality. The way without a
name—call it source of self-awareness.
Still I
need a myth to live by. I couldn’t eat without it—just know that myths
transform into beliefs when my experientially known unknown is thought to be
literally known.
Call
it—The Self-Reflexive Manifestation. In consciousness, where all appears,
self-awareness is the only constant narrative within my evolution—and its
source is obviously myself.
The
Self-Reflexive Manifestation is a grand unifying story satisfying all the
conflicting plotlines of the micro, the macro, and beyond.
In
this myth of The Self-Reflexive Manifestation, the unmanifest emptiness takes
form and caveat emptor.
Do you really think the mountains and rivers are outside, Shan Shui? I now know
without a doubt the universe is completely inside. And so are the mountains and
rivers—appearances in consciousness.
It's the same old story—pure awareness being self-aware. Is the water falling?
Or is the waterfall a temporary closing? And the mist arising from the burning
waters is its re-opening. Such is self-awareness.
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1.
In and for my own understanding—there are two lines of spiritual inquiry establishing themselves along the lines of Indian jnana and bhakti, which I prefer to call personal deconstruction and mystic insight, but a well-known quote from Nisargadatta simply names them wisdom and love.
Deconstruction without mystic insight leads to rational nihilistic perceptions with a futile search for scientific materialist confirmation, while mystic insight without a deconstructive approach leads to idealistic new age reverie without a mythic framework. See Apollo and Dionysus.
In other words, in my particular mythic arrangement, social conditioning is challenged on every conceivable front including that of the modern religion of scientific materialism, while consciousness or being, known in the world as unconditional love, is embraced as primary or fundamental or all.
2.
Science by itself is a method of inquiry. But materialism is an unproven faith in the fundamental nature of material existence, a religious belief propagating theories as dogma without investigating the obvious experiential fact that this material is an appearance in consciousness.
For my own mythic arrangement—the beauty of Arthur M. Young's reflexive universe is the placement of this paradigm of material manifestation within its meta-paradigm of being—utilizing the scientific method to discover that the universe is an evolutionary process of self-awareness.
3.
Pseudo-eastern trappings are just as much new age as Timothy Leary is dead—that's a lot of love to be without a ground to stand on And there's nothing immanently wrong with this. It's being lost in the western material world looking for some overhanging myth to hang a head on.
Similarly the hopeful crowd announcing our collective consciousness is now preparing for a better day in some not distant newborn age is new age through and through, forgetting one’s not of the world, as well as last lines from every film in Chinatown—forget it friend, it’s samsara.
One is being the unknown. It’s not collective. It's not preparing for some future heaven. It's even not about my helping others although this love is in the world and dreaming does go on and some samsara tells nirvana do what your samsara says. No. Self-awareness is a private showing.
4.
The way as I see it—the body-mind and its world is not to be renounced, but to be embodied as the supernode of my universal soft machine of self-awareness, and embraced for the revelatory dreamwork that it is.
This doesn’t imply involving oneself in the affairs of the world. In fact, as Ramana Maharshi says—non-resistance is the highest way. And the Diamond Sutra says the bodhisattva frees by knowing there’s no bondage.
5.
The false religious and progressive invention that the spiritual or humane height of achievement is an egolessness displayed in one’s social consciousness—is one of the most devious protectors of worldly egoic samsara—and the sly guarantor of no awakening from its sleep.
This isn’t saying the liberal view is wrong and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps in a free market world is right. Both are neither. Love is not of the world—and one’s not a body surviving in the world. Consciousness is fundamental. Just imagine the inference of that truth for self-awareness.
