Metaphysical Contact

Metaphysical Contact

Reality can’t be intellectually described. Reality is not physical. Reality is metaphysical.

Reality is intelligent and self-revealing. Thus the intellect does not need to contact reality. Reality contacts the intellect.

The intellect cannot begin to describe this intuitive contact, but only identify with that reality. Prajnanam brahman.

One not only recognizes that awareness through the clouds, that being behind the body, that infinity beyond the mind, but suddenly sees — I am That.

Envisioning As It Is

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Metaphysical contact isn’t alien contact. It’s self contact.

Kind revelations prepare thyself for something sudden.

2.

Try not to fixate on any aspect. There’s plenty of space for awareness, existence, and holistic infinity bliss.

Not that there’s anything wrong with fixation. But it helps to call it what it is. Name your god.

3.

Awareness isn’t some stale and sterile witnessing. That witness is pure existence as well as holistic infinity bliss.

And maya isn’t just illusion. Maya is intelligent illusion.

4.

Maya is beginningless but not endless.

Thus sravana (listen), manana (reflect and confirm), nididhyasana (envision as it is).

Isvara the Metaparadigm

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Consider universal consciousness is to isvara as the universe is to the universe. Also saguna brahman is nirguna brahman is an unspoken mahavakya.

The universe is a world of materialists, monotheists, and spiritualists. A monotheist thinks the universe is created by a god. A spiritualist thinks the universe is the god. A materialist thinks the universe is all there is.

But a certain kind of nondualist, knowing consciousness doesn’t appear in the universe but the universe is appearing in consciousness, adopts the metaparadigm of universal consciousness as its myth, names it isvara, gives it the power of maya, respects their potency, and dreams of samadhi.

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Individual consciousness appears in universal consciousness—without this provisional understanding in your bones, there is no proper neti neti.

It's not just 'not individual consciousness', but it’s 'not individual consciousness, not universal consciousness'. That’s proper neti neti.

Individual consciousness does not appear in the universe. Individual consciousness appears in universal consciousness. There’s a chain of command with Isvara at the top.

Absolute consciousness does not absolve individual consciousness. Absolute consciousness absolves universal consciousness.

Practical Satcitananda

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In speaking intuitively of absolute nondual brahman, some emphasize that essence of awareness, and some emphasize that essence of existence.

Awareness (cit) is the witness. Existence (sat) is the I am. Even bliss (ananda) is spoken for. Thus is the practical aspect of satcitananda.

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A person is nothing but name and form which is nothing but insentience, acquiring its sentience from the substrate of brahman.

For beneath the conceptual superimposition is the witnessing awareness and the I am of existence. And ananda.

So Self-awareness Appears

1.

Both the dream and the dreamer are dreams. Only one dream per dreamer survives the night, by surviving the dawn.

This focusing namarupa of the mind survives the crash into the self-luminous ground of satcitananda.

Maya may have no beginning, but it’s not eternal. Brahman is. So self-awareness appears in awareness.

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Here's all we can say. Maya has no beginning. Self-awareness, self-realization, ends maya. Is then self-awareness the meaning of maya? Who can say?

This is bhakti advaita. Isvara is saguna brahman. Maya is isvara’s magic wand. The universe is maya’s intelligent illusion. Lila is isvara’s intent. Self-realization is the end of maya. Aham nirguna brahmasmi.

People are not numbers. They're names and forms. Names and forms are insentient concepts. Concepts are superimpositions engraved upon existence-being-presence, consciousness-intelligence-awareness, holistic bliss infinity. As the substrate gives sentience to Michelangelo's David.

Our Apocalyptic Play

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In the branches of this maple tree, beneath its namarupa, is brahman.

The tree itself is inert material. It, like the universe itself, is mere insentience of name and form

superimposed on pure existence, pure consciousness, pure bliss. Its apparent sentience is lit by satcitananda.

This evolutionary world is the work of maya: self-awareness is appearing in awareness.

The maple tree is playing its part in our apocalyptic play culminating in aham brahmasmi.

2.

Atman is existence is being is presence is consciousness is intelligence is wisdom is holistic bliss infinity is brahman.

The mind is a subtle body and the body is an earthly body. Both are lifeless bodies. But the subtle body is reflecting brahman and the body-mind appears to be alive.

The four mahavakyas are the vedantic riders of apocalyptic self-awareness. Isvara wields that starting pistol. The big bang is like the voice of maya.

First, the proof of brahman is simply the existence and consciousness and infinity upon which a dreamlike proofless person wears its name and form.

3.

That a dream character is asking for the proof of truth is the big joke.

What is the proof of a person is the obvious question, the self-inquiry, the who am I?

The principle of existence isn’t the proof of truth. It is the truth. The dreamstate depends upon it.

Existence-being-presence is the unborn sky in which the colors of spring, summer, fall appear and disappear.

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beneath the namarupa tree,

satcitananda is sitting.

kill the buddha.

fuck isaac newton.

marry satcitananda.

Ode to Isvara and Vishnu

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In advaita, between samsaric delusion and nirvikalpa samadhi is divine imagination’s deep devotion to nonduality.

If brahman plus maya is isvara, then atman plus maya is divine imagination, vishnu.

If isvara is 'that' is brahman, then the divine imagineer is 'thou' is atman. To make a long story short, tattvamasi.

2.

Divine imagination is the default imagination. Samsaric imagination is the faulty one. 

As there's no why to maya, divine imagination is to self-awareness.

It was the time of the wood frog in the year of the rabbit. Vishnu and Isvara are alright tonight.

3.

Nonduality is nothing but divine imagination. Nonduality points to the nondual. Between divine imagination and nirvikalpa samadhi is non-abiding savikalpa samadhi. 

As divine imagination is the default imagination, nirvikalpa samadhi is the default samadhi. Brahman is default isvara. Atman is default vishnu. 

Isvara envelops. Vishnu pervades. The self-awareness of brahman requires an objective universe, isvara, and divine imagination, vishnu. What else is self-awareness but an appearance in awareness?

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Some say jiva and some say vishnu. Both are figments of imagination. To be perfectly clear, vishnu is divine imagination, the default imagination. Jiva is faulty.

Maybe divine imagination is maya seeing through avidya. Maybe maya seeing through maya is samadhi. Excuse me while I savikalpa the sky.

Existence-being-presence—consciousness-intelligence-wisdom—holistic-bliss-infinity. Satcitananda for short. 

Paraverse Abridged 230428 - 230505

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Light reflecting off a mirror is nothing but light, but the reflection of the sun in the mirror is not the sun.

Awareness reflecting off the mind is play of light, divine imagination, self-awareness.

The reflection of brahman in the mind is not brahman but samsaric imagination.

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The four mahavakyas of the vedic revelation riding out of the silence: Prajnanam brahma. Tattvamasi. Ayam atma brahma. Aham Brahmasmi.

In the name of the play of light, divine imagination, non-abiding self-awareness, and nirvikalpa samadhi. Atman is not my self. I am atman.

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The day dream appears powerful not for the mind (the hallucinating night dream is mind at its best) but for the substrate.

Memory fuels the sleep dream. Consciousness, the waking dream. The sleep dream is names and forms. The waking dream is names, forms, being, intelligence, bliss.

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Waking state minus dreamstate equals turiya. As attention minus thought equals awareness.

Every morning, you awake but fall back into dream right away.

The mind has many dreams each night as body consciousness rests. During the day, it has one—consciousness is dream-consuming.

Original paraverse:

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https://www.aumdada.com/2023/04/230428.html

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https://www.aumdada.com/2023/05/230503wd.html

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The Hard Ground of Brahman

1. (the hard ground of brahman)

The waking state minus the names and forms of the dreamstate equals existence, being, intelligence, consciousness, bliss, infinity, reality, atman, brahman.

(Brahman has no attributes nor an actual name. This is why neti neti. Even the invaluable pointer, satcitananda, is to be understood as not non-existent, not unintelligent, not of samsaric suffering.)

Sleep without dream is deep sleep reads the Mandukya. But the waking state minus the dream state equals turiya. Like attention minus thought equals awareness.

This difference between the dream state and the waking state is exactly that attention brought on by the shock of reality, like suddenly crashing into the substrate beneath the wings of dreams.

2. (the hard ground of atman)

Every morning, you awake but fall back into dreaming right away. Make divine imagination your morning devotion.

The mind has multiple dreams each night as the body consciousness rests. During the day, it has just one—consciousness is dream-consuming.

While it's being cloudy, have faith in the sky. And on a sunny savikalpa kind of day, I am the brahman sky.

Atman is always the knower and never the known. The knower is the self and the known is the not-self. Another name for this not-self is maya

3. (the holistic bliss infinity)

In the dreamstate, saguna brahman is the highest god Isvara. This divine imagination is devotion to nonduality. Brahman plus maya equals Isvara’s universe.

If nirguna brahman without atributes + maya = saguna brahman with attributes, then attributes r maya. For attributes are nothing but names and forms.

Names and forms (namarupa) are nothing but appearances (maya) in sat (existence-being-presence), cit (consciousness-intelligence-wisdom), and ananda (holistic-bliss-infinity).

Dreamstate Tractate Trifecta

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The day dream appears to be so powerful, not for the mind’s performance (the hallucinating night dream is the mind at its best) but for the substrate upon which the mind’s names and forms are carved: existence-being, consciousness-intelligence, bliss-infinity.

Memory fuels the sleeping dream. Consciousness fuels the waking dream. The sleeping dream is basically names and forms. The waking dream is names, forms, being, intelligence, and bliss.

They say namarupa is the superimposition and satcitananda is the substrate. Thus the dreamstate is like a sleeping snake startled by the rope of reality.

2.

The universe is the form of space and the name of time appearing in the unborn infinity of brahman.

The mind is living on borrowed sentience, and memory is living on that sentience of the mind. Sleeping, the mind still flickers, but memory is nearly unconscious.

In this current dream world, subsisting is being and money is knowledge. But desire is never bliss. Only unconditional love is.

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In the unborn brahman that is I, a me is born. This is not sin city, it’s maya.

Desire is a new game every day! Love is game over.

Unconditional love is natural self-awareness.

May Day Mahavakya

May Day peepers—a younger character I once played thought they’re the sound of the land reawakening, and that nature in general is the transcendental reality, and not some social construction. Now there’s the four mahavakyas of the vedic revelation riding from out of the silence.

First, consciousness is not this finished product of the natural world, and although it’s a fact the social world appears in the natural one, that the natural world appears in consciousness is the truth. Aham Brahmasmi says.

Tat is that is isvara. Tvam is you is jiva. Since you're not literally god, the words are heard as stand-ins for their respective grounds. Brahman is the ground of isvara. Atman is the ground of jiva. Thus pure consciousness is the mutual ground. Tattvamasi.

Intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, consciousness—all are brahman. Prajnanam brahma. This self is the great one. Ayam atma brahma. In the name of the play of light, divine imagination, non-abiding self-awareness, and nirvikalpa samadhi. Atman is not my self. I am atman. Dot dot dot dash.

footnotes

Then it was Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Donald Hall. Now it’s Nisargadatta and the Drg Drsya Viveka of Vidyaranya.

Appearing in Awareness

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Space is a convenient metaphor for awareness. But actual space, as in space-time, is only an appearance in spaceless awareness.

The universe is neither real like brahman nor unreal like absolutely nothing, but is an indeterminate appearance, illusory, mithya.

And egoic self isn’t real like atman (the self) nor unreal like anatta (no-self), but is also illusory like a dream, cicchaya, the reflection of awareness, of pure consciousness, brahman.

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As space is an appearance in spaceless awareness, time is an appearance in timeless awareness.

Neither real nor unreal but not real—this is the most one can say about the universe. It's like neti neti times ten thousand.

Light reflecting off a mirror is nothing but light, but the reflection of the sun in the mirror is not the sun.

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Awareness reflecting off the mind is nothing but the play of light, divine imagination, self-awareness.

The reflection of brahman in the mind (conceptual) is not brahman (the nonconceptual) but samsaric imagination.

Before enlightenment, divine imagination. After enlightenment, divine imagination.

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sunlight on a daffodil—

in its perfect reflection of the sun

there is no daffodil

On Self-awareness (2023)

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The universe is not just name and form. The universe is name and form superimposed on being, consciousness, bliss. Satcitananda. Otherwise, there’s no appearance of a universe at all.

Similarly, egoic self is nothing but name and form superimposed on the infinite self of satcitananda.

Name and form is nothing but imagination and imagination is nothing but thought. No thought, no universe and no egoic self. 

2.

Basically, there are three states of human consciousness: ignorant imagination (avidya), divine imagination (advaita), and nirvikalpa samadhi.

Also, divine imagination includes these sudden revelations of non-abiding (savikalpa) samadhi like this downloading.

Mistaking divine imagination (with savikalpa samadhi) for nirvikalpa samadhi is just more ignorant imagination.

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In divine imagination, one takes a stand, one foot in the myth and one foot in the absolute, from bhakta to jnana and all of the lucid in-between.

In deep Mandukya-speak, avidya is the dreaming state, advaita is the waking state, and nirvikalpa is the deep sleep state.

Some say there are three states of samadhi instead: non-savikalpa, savikalpa, and nirvikalpa. That tracks.

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In its essence, avidya is beginningless but not endless, possessing the powers of concealment (of the truth) and projection (of the false). Its locus is in maya.

There are three states of human consciousness (samadhi): avidya (non-savikalpa), advaita (salvikalpa), and nirvikalpa.

Thus there’s only the absolute one: brahman, atman, being, presence, intelligence, awareness, infinity, bliss. Self-awareness is such divine imagination.

The Ballad of Brahman and Tao

Nondoing is what I do. Doing is the story why I did it.

Real poetry is like the voice of silence in the land of noise.

Poetry points. Nonfiction deconstructs. Fiction dreams. Love you, babe.

Yin and yang is the breath of duality. It’s not a problem until the tao takes a side.

The tao has no sides. The tao is the diamond without a facet. Tao loves brahman.

On Jahadjahallakshana

Between the water table and this spring-fed pool is the world of maya. Like atman is brahman.

In this metaphor, the earth of maya is simply conceptual and the water is indivisible pure being.

All words are metaphorical to some degree. A rose is a rose in as much as the word points to the mystery of consciousness called a rose.

Even the word, awareness, is a metaphor for that substrate of nonconceptual awareness, that that which can’t be named.

Pointing at the moon howling I am that reflection of awareness as the black whole is swallowing the sun of self-awareness—that's lakshana. It's no neti-neti.

The Brahman Trilogy

1. Name That Brahman

Brahman kind of means, god is great.

Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman

or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.

You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.

That by any other symbolic intuition is That.

2. god is so brahman

god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.

god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.

god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.

god is so blissful in brahman now.

3. Atman and Brahman

Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.

Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.

Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.

Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi. 

Atman and Brahman

Atman is the microcosmic absolute called the inner self. Brahman is the macrocosmic absolute called beyond, beyond, far beyond.

Atman is brahman is not a theory of everything. That atman is brahman is the absolute revelation seeing through everything.

Atman is brahman. Look, the mahavakyas are like the hydrogen atom of maya. Please handle with care.

Let them introduce myself. Atman is brahman. Consciousness is brahman. I am brahman. Tattvamasi. 

god is so brahman

god is good, as in brahman isn't the cause of suffering. avidya is.

god is great, as in brahman isn't of this world. the world is like a dream in brahman.

god is so being that the existence of the universe itself is just a superimposition upon brahman.

god is so blissful in brahman now.

Name That Brahman

Brahman kind of means, god is great.

Brahman is so infinite that space-time is just an island in the sea of brahman

or the void is just a mustard seed inside a black hole.

You can call that infinity, being, consciousness, bliss, the indivisible, unconditional, unchanging, the unborn and the free.

That by any other symbolic intuition is That.

Notes to Anandamaya

Try identifying with the intellect. The intellect is a reflection of intelligence. Another name for intelligence is awareness.

Another name for the reflection of awareness is consciousness. Another name for the conscious intellect is I Am.

Hard-wired superimposition is the body-life-force. Subtle superimposition is the mind-intellect-quality complex.

Ananda, through the binary lens of maya, appears to be happiness and unhappiness, pleasure and pain, one and zero. 

Another name for this is quality. Thus satcitananda reflected in maya is mind-intellect-qualifier.

The life force body is born, lives, and dies. Its sentience is only reflected immortality. The subtle body is the mind, intellect, 

and qualifier—reflections of shimmering satcitananda. Only the qualifier is after maya but before avidya.

Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.

Mayatown

In Maya, the mind is reflection of being and the intellect is reflection of intelligence.

In a healthy relationship, the mind provides the data and the intellect makes the decision. This is how nondoing works.

When the mind makes decisions instead, all hell breaks loose.

Maybe procrastination is like the mind has made a decision and the intellect informs the body not to do it. Better Bartleby than Citizen Kane.

Forget it Jake, it’s Mayatown. Awareness is the ground. Self-awareness is the story. Nirvikalpa samadhi is the story returning to the ground, dead or alive.