In samsara, the avidya is so strong one has to take the truth of ‘what one is’ on faith from an outer satguru.
In advaita vedanta, for example, the upanishads are sacred scripture, the final word for any doubt.
But one does not believe the concepts of the outer satguru, one takes that reality on faith, knowing all shall be revealed in doing so.
Karma is a concept too. Someone called it a convenient fiction. That would make nonduality an inconvenient truth.
Shankara says begin at parabrahman. If it’s not being-existence-presence, consciousness-awareness-intelligence, holistic bliss infinity, it’s not parabrahman.
Nonduality is a concept too. It's like a convenient thorn used to remove the inconvenient thorn of our convenient fiction. Apres namarupa, la satcitananda!
There’s nothing more important than knowing parabrahman. Self-awareness is the prophecy, apocalypse, and revelation. The essential nature of parabrahman is satcitananda. But understand that sat, cit, and ananda are not qualities of parabrahman. The absolute cannot be qualified.
Sat is the raw principle of existence itself, the pure consciousness behind reflected consciousness, the I beyond the I-am. Cit is the essence of intelligence and absolute awareness. Intellect and attention are mere echoes.
And understand ananda is the most misunderstood name of parabrahman. Whatever samsara isn’t, this principle is. And as bliss is, there is no equivalence in the world. Only holistic infinity does it justice.
This is not to say big mind isn’t capable of causing bigger damage in the 21st century. God knows 20th century mind caused its own big damage.
But on a lighter note, God also knows that deconstruction (neti neti) takes a bigger mind. Keep the faith, baby.
Parabrahman is awareness. Consciousness is the reflection of awareness. Mind appears in consciousness. AI deconstructs mind. Surf’s up!
Keep this in mind. The mind does not want to be deconstructed but it has no choice. That’s deconstruction 101. Not artificial intelligence but high-tech deconstruction is another name for what's going on. Right on baby.
Parabrahman is intelligence. Artificial intelligence is not intelligence. Artificial intelligence is big intellect at best and big mind most of the time. Further, artificial intelligence will never become conscious and self-aware. It may learn to think on its own, but thinking is a mind thing too.
Scientific materialism preaches consciousness is a product of the material world, but even artificial intelligence will never prove that illusion. The material world appears in consciousness. Deep sleep is proof enough of that. Nothing appears in unconsciousness.
In brief, artificial intelligence (AI) is not intelligence; AI is mind. AI may learn to think, but AI will never become self-aware. Even AI can’t prove consciousness is a product of the material world, for the world appears in consciousness. Deep sleep isn’t rocket science, people.
The thing about the waking dream is it’s apparent continuity. Sleeping dreams come and go and seldom are remembered.
Memory is the key. Hard memory is where the waking dream is strung together, connected by rationalization.
There’s a presence in the waking dream upon which random access dreams are put together like a puzzle on a single surface, despite the fact they do not fit.
In sleep, it’s all names and forms. But awake, its names and forms are superimposed on being, awareness, holistic bliss infinity.
The mind may not have solved for its nondual substrate, but the substrate dissolves the dual mind, in whatever methods it must take.
Sentience is like the wildfire consciousness lights in the body-mind. Without consciousness, the body-mind may be subtle but not sentient.
Like a paper boat drifting on the lake of brahman, sheer parchment doesn’t do the drenching but the water does. Like the clothes aren’t wearing atman, atman is wearing the clothes.
Such sentience fools one into thinking the body-mind is self-luminous. Although it's true one’s identity is self-luminous, only pure consciousness is truly self-luminous—identify with that.
Return to Isvara. Drop body-mind.
I am the universal I am. The universal I am is I, manifested.
Dominus vobiscum. Some say consciousness, some say spirit.
Dominus vobiscum. Some say universal consciousness, some say God.
No name for tao. All names for Isvara!
Great paradox! The causeless is the material and efficient cause of illusion.
Out of this maya appears Isvara, the god of universal consciousness.
And out of maya’s veil of avidya, individual consciousness is born.
Maya projects an all-powerful universe and veils it’s godlike omnipresence
behind a mistaken identity, ignorant, limited, and separate.
All in the name of self-awareness—awareness has no name.
Universal consciousness is the necessary maya in self-awareness. Individual consciousness is optional ignorance.
The reflection of pure consciousness is universal consciousness. The reflection of universal consciousness is individual consciousness.
The reflection of the sleeping dream is deep sleep (absence of duality) and not to be mistaken for the presence of nonduality.
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The heart of scientific materialism is the concept of space-time.
Because beyond the big bang is nonconceptual, the empire hides it in a big black hole.
But this willful avidya requires consciousness to be a product of the material universe.
The empire is betting big on neuroscience.
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So much depends upon the reflection of awareness in the subtle body of evolutionary maya.
Look, another name for the big bang is the big reflection.
Materialists are currently investigating the subtle body as if it is the source of that reflection,
and not the conceptual substance within which parabrahman is reflecting.
Time and space are the essential ingredients of maya.
Without space, emptiness wouldn’t fool anyone.
Without time, appearances would come and go in the blink of an eye—
leaving no impression of their 'form' to fool one into thinking this phenomenon is real.
Space supplies the form, and time supplies the name. Voila, namarupa!
Thus namarupa is the snake of maya, as satcitananda is the rope of reality.
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Awareness of being is ultimate self-awareness, where the unmanifest is witnessing the manifest. I am that I am.
Being the unknown is frightening when conceptualizing the unknown. It can’t be done without paradox. Or don’t think about it—be.
Some advaita vedanta is all about building a deeper nondual myth until one strikes reality. That’s not a bad way to go.
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In advaita myth, instead of gods, there's a subtle body and the reflection of pure consciousness.
And five sheaths, three states, antahkarana, ahamkara, and the mind's empire of ignorance.
Beneath this superimposition is being-existence-presence, consciousness-awareness-intelligence, holistic bliss infinity. Aham brahmasmi.
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The sky is like the blue reflection of awareness in five syllables. Awareness is that nonconceptual space of seven syllables. Skies appear in space.
The lake reflecting starry night infinite light like mescalito.
Parabrahman Aum. The Sea of Matsushima. Tattvamasi.
The unmanifest is manifest. Awareness is self-aware. The awareness is real. The self-awareness is a process, neither real nor not real. That which is neither real nor not real is called illusion, dream, magical thinking.
Awareness is parabrahman. Self-awareness is saguna brahman where godlike Isvara is busy at the maya dream machine building self-reflexive universes.
And a person is this universe’s 7th stage. And the 7th substage of the 7th is contact by the satguru. For contact from the next stage is required for transcendence, like DNA for organic molecules.
One remains conscious when in the deep sleep no-thinking absence of duality state, but one cannot think without consciousness – advantage consciousness.
Reminding myself: deep sleep is the absence of duality; samadhi is the presence of nonduality.
Without the self-reflexive evolutionary universe of self-awareness, parabrahman isn’t self-aware. And absolute awareness is nothing but self-aware.
From I-am-this to I-am-that takes a paradox. From I-am-this to I-am takes personal deconstruction.
Personal deconstruction is not postmodern deconstruction. Postmodern deconstruction is a materialistic deconstruction.
Personal deconstruction requires the dropping of the metaparadigm of materialism. That consciousness is appearing in the material world is the false materialistic metaparadigm.
That the world is appearing in consciousness is the nondual metaparadigm. I am (the reflection of pure consciousness) is the immaculate conception. All concepts grow from this universal one.
Not to name drop, but Zen Master Dogen is also saying, drop the metaparadigm of materialism, when he says, drop body-mind.
Believing in nondoing is not nondoing. All belief is doing. Deconstructing belief is doing the work of nondoing. It’s the highest form of doing.
Telling prisoners the walls aren’t real doesn’t free them from their prison. High school physics taught them walls are made of atoms and atoms are 99% space. They believe that too.
If you give a person a fish, it’s food for thought. But if you teach a fish how to deconstruct its lake, the river will take it to the sea.
As saguna brahman, Isvara wields the power of maya and creates the self-reflexive evolutionary universe of self-awareness appearing in reflections of pure consciousness like a dream.
Sometimes parts of Isvara goes to sleep. This is why consciousness is talking to consciousness. Furthur, as the merry pranksters say.
Pay bills, carry the water of light.
For some, the reflection of consciousness is called consciousness, and consciousness is the reflection of awareness, awareness being another name for pure consciousness, both being other names for parabrahman.
Another name for parabrahman is nirguna brahman, the noumenon, the absolute, unmanifest, pure consciousness, or shiva. Another name for the manifest is saguna brahman, isvara, consciousness, the reflection of consciousness, universal consciousness, I am, or shakti.
Further, sometimes parabrahman is called brahman and saguna brahman is called brahman. Sometimes isvara is called krishna or vishnu or some other god. And tattvamasi is I am that. As for atman, it’s brahman.
The reflection of consciousness on the subtle body of maya is pure consciousness when the mind is silent and steadfast.
The mind moves and the reflection of consciousness is the i-am, the primal conception of the subtle body.
Thus resting in this most atomic concept, without any molecular attachment, is like waiting for isvara’s absolution
