Crow and Calvin

As crow caws the cause of causelessness,

Calvin preaches predestination.

Either one's self-realized

or one is sleeping. 

There are three states of sleeping

including this waking one.

~rj21

By the Shores of Intuition

As crow doesn't know the ways of people, people do not know the Way.

Crow mind or human mind, it's all the monkeystuff of Maya.

Islands never know the sea of consciousness except upon

the shores of intuition called Eka-atma-pratyaya-saram.

~reality jingles number 20

love, satcitananda

Consciousness identifying with the mind is like fire identifying with firewood.

Consciousness identifying with consciousness is job number one.

Consciousness is the ground. Existence is the principle. Love is ananda, my love 

from Tucumcari to nonduality

I've been from Tucumcari to nonduality.

Duality is measured by the senses.

That's why nonduality makes no sense.

nonconceptual existence (to Mary from love)

People die. Consciousness doesn't.

People appear in consciousness.

Consciousness is self-apparent.

self-awareness like a total eclipse

The mind is this highly-advanced subtle body of Maya capable of reflecting consciousness

back to pure consciousness in an act of self-awareness like a total eclipse of the sun.

The moon shining on the earth is called consciousness.

The sun shining on the moon is called awareness (pure consciousness).

The moon shining on the sun is called absolution (enlightenment).

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 56-58: the real seer

However much an experience this practical transactional world seems to be, it is unsubstantial like a dream with all its momentary contradictions.

Upon waking, the dream state disappears. In dreaming, there is no waking state. Both are non-existent in deep sleep while deep sleep is unavailable in both.

Thus these three states are considered to be unreal, creations of the three primal attributes. The real seer is beyond all attributes, that one consciousness, the Self.

Altaring Consciousness

If the sun is consciousness

and the moon, reflected consciousness,

the earth is like The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Some call pure consciousness, awareness.

Some call reflected consciousness, the mind.

Some call experience, mindful consciousness. 

Sometimes I get a great notion to know I Am.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: body, ego, god, and dna

1. Paramatman

There is no atman but paramatman. 

Paramatman is the satcitananda of any other so-called atman.

2. any other so-called atman

Physical, subtle, omniscient, or seed

(body, ego, god, and dna).

3. nonduality

Reality is inconceivable. Duality is a misconception.

The binary universe is an appearance in nonduality. 

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 52-54: no second

Imagining the slightest difference between an individual self and the Supreme Self is the undertaking of a foolish mind and certain to invite much fear and loathing.

As reality is misconceived, duality appears—and one sees another. But as one is seeing the Self in all, there is no other in the least.

In the one who truly realizes all beings as the Self, there's neither delusion nor sorrow, for there is no second.

To Turning Time an Auerbach

After fire, time zones are the greatest human discovery.

As nuclear bombs and artificial intelligence are the greatest use of fire,

daylight savings time is the greatest use of time zones.

As if the end of daylight savings time is final proof that we the people control time.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: from The Aparok Opera Experience

This last song from The Aparok Opera Experience called 'born of Brahman' is chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected, and steppin' out over the line. Get yours today.

I appreciate that Mahavakya of Mandukya, Ayam Atma Brahma, incorporating the duality of Atman and Brahman into a single fourth, Turiya. Similarly Shankarachaya writes "Brahman, Paramatman."

That it's said Shankaracharya wrote this doesn't mean Shankara wrote this but some master from his monastic lineage with the honorific of Shankaracharya.

They say namarupa is 40% of maya. The reflection of satcitananda makes up the rest. Differentiate the real from unreal and see this dream is just conditioned mind reflecting in the lake of pure consciousness.

Is the mind a reflection of consciousness or is consciousness that in which the mind appears? Most identify with mind. Such maya is beginningless. Identifying with consciousness takes some practice.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 49-51: born of Brahman

All beings are born of Brahman, Paramatman. Therefore one should understand they are Brahman alone.

All various names and forms are Brahman alone. All activity is similarly sustained. This is divine revelation.

Whatever's created from gold is always gold. And too, whoever is born of Brahman is always of the nature of Brahman.

Peaks of Aparoksanubhuti

My talks are transcreations of select translations.

My transcreation is written in poetry.

My point of view dances with nonduality.

That Ananda

Love makes dreaming feel real. Thinking about it is a nightmare

I love I know I am is that ananda of satcitananda.

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40

That I is one alone

That I is the seer

That I is immutable

That imperishable I

Talking Aparoksanubhuti 43-45

Everything appears in consciousness. This is our direct experience. It's literally the meaning of Aparoksanubhuti. No scientific theory need apply. All thought appears in consciousness too.

So it appears Gaudapada was the first to apply the nondual Buddhist metaphor of snake and rope to Advaita Vedanta. And all the Shankaracharyas ran with it.

The substrate of all reflection in this lake is consciousness. There's nothing other than this lake of consciousness. All reflection in this lake is consciousness only.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 43-45

In the one Consciousness, there can be no division. All individuality is in vain. It's as a snake mistakenly seen in the rope.

From an ignorance of the rope comes the appearance of a snake. Similarly, in pure immutable consciousness appears a phenomenal universe.

The substrate of the universe is Brahman. There's nothing other than that there. Thus, the whole universe is Brahman only.

Talks on Aparoksanubhuti 31,2,3,9,&40

That supreme I is one alone. Material and one of many, how can the mere physical body be the Self?

It's well-established that I is the seer and the body is the seen. Thus they say, this is mine. So how can a mere body be the Self?

That I is changeless and the body is always changing. This is visibly experienced. So how can a mere body be the Self?

Even the subtle body is made of unstable parts. It too is an object, subject to modification, limited, and unreal. So how can it be the Self?

Different from these two bodies is Atman, Purusa, Isvara, the Self of all, of all form and beyond all, that imperishable I.

tbd

 2.

The first law of realization is to turn, turn, turn.

The church of god and the church of science are the two main religions in materialism.

Ego appears in consciousness. Consciousness am I.

3.

Have you ever noticed consciousness never grows old?

That's why they say consciousness is the youth of 10,000 summers.

Breathe out to be or not to be. Breathe in the principle of existence.

4.

Either everything is myself or none of it. That's the nature of reflection.

All dreams are in the mind and of the mind including the waking state.

There's consciousness only no matter what you want to believe.

5.

Consciousness is a reflection of awareness.

Thought is an appearance in consciousness.

Belief is a form of thought.

6.

awareness

consciousness

thought

belief

form

war

self-awareness

7.

Overture

Changeless, formless, faultless, imperishable.

Afflictionless, reflectionless, conceptionless, all-pervading.

Conditionless, actionless, endless unbound. 

Immaculate, immovable, unadulterated, ageless and immortal.

8.

underture

awareness

consciousness

thought

belief

form

war

self-awareness