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January 8, 2022

These are my words to you as I close in on Parabrahman Nirguna. Listen closely and investigate. One of the Buddhist sects describes the Absolute as the "Clear Light," a very apt phrase for expressing the inexpressible. Take it further. Follow the clear light through a prism and marvel at the colors emergent. The body-mind through which you decode my words is this prism. All of the cosmos and everything known, including this body-mind-prism, are the colors. This is the first major shift in orientation that needs to happen before you open to Realization. You are not the physical senses and the intellect with which you identify. These are just functions of the prism, and the prism simply transmutes the clear light into colors, our world, our self-identified selves. This world is quite an entertainment with its ecstasies and miseries, a roller-coaster for most of us, and we are totally caught up in it. But despite the tumult of three score and ten, when you remove that prism, wha...
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January 19, 2022

 A bit more about this "new sense" reference and how it's not new, but simply overlooked so subtly is it incorporated into our orientation. "I am" or the sense of being is and has always been incessant but under our radar, so to speak. Just as the "seeing" sense merges into what is seen, all of our senses merge invisibly into what is sensed. The sense of "being" is no different. Being has a "taste" every bit as distinct as salt or sugar, but it has no objective source like something salty or sweet. Being might be considered the first or primary sense before all others. For us, being is the first ripple emerging from the unmanifest, pure consciousness. It is "felt" as a singular clarity, omnipresent and all-pervading, peaceful, undisturbed. It is prior to the mental and bodily distortions of our normal mode of experience--and I am telling you it is beautiful and the journey of a lifetime to access and establish oneself in t...
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January 20, 2022

 The dark depths of the ocean consist of the same clear water running through our fingers at its surface. It is one. The relationship is analogous to the Absolute or Unmanifest pervaded by consciousness. Forms "appear" and "disappear," bubbling up from the still, deep darkness then bursting at the surface. They were simply empty forms, the shape of water, all along. So, too, are we. This might sound cold, but that damn water is downright frigid.
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March 11, 2022

"It [the Self] is immortal, unknowable, not inert. Without recourse to thought, understand and remain."--N.M. For those who confuse realization with some sort of zombie apocalypse state of mind, it is "not inert." In fact, pure consciousness is the most subtly plastic and lively principle the body-mind can experience on the way to unknowable immortality. How about "dynamic void," "inchoate openness," whatever; all attempts to verbalize are throwing illusory spaghetti at imaginary walls. For our sake the sages keep trying, though, bless their mythical hearts.
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March 19, 2022

 Never forget, memory is transient and nothing's for certain, that's for sure--Macbeth Provided humanity survives to see and be this, the day will come when we look back at the age of the body-mind just as today we look back at the flat earth of antiquity. More than a few explorers have gone over the edge and returned to tell us of unimaginable worlds beyond our ken, but most folks nowadays attach to that good old better-safe-than-sorry-for-better-or-for-worse body-mind into which we are indoctrinated. It's a crying shame. 
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April 21, 2022

 Pop culture "Advaita" such as "The Power of Now" is great as far as it goes. Be here, now, not lost in some past or future angst.  Great advice. A jnani would still consider this mental gymnastics though. The "place" in which a jnani abides precedes any taint of mental or sensory activity. He or she abides in the clear light, no-mind, pure consciousness, however you term it. Why, though? Why when this seems to go against the grain of the world and all we have been taught and experience? Well, if you love the hurly-burly roller-coaster we call life, and more importantly, if this life fulfills you and hopefully fosters peace and contentment and settles all questions--then God bless you, go forth and multiply, etc. But even with all these blessings, if something still seems missing, something nagging back there in a mist of restlessness and discontent--the old mote in the eye of fulfillment--then chances are you are subconsciously hearing the call of the inn...
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April 26, 2022

 So what is the answer when Nisargadatta asks "Where were you 100 years ago?" "Don't know" is one true answer. But what is it that doesn't know? Another answer is provided in more depth by Vasistha: "Even as ocean exists in the past,  present and future as ocean and the same water temporarily assumes the form of a wave, all this is forever the cosmic being at all times."
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