sitting
in meditation is
not sitting
in meditation.
sitting is resting in the orientation
the world is not the world and
you are not a person without
the act of thinking that it's so.
meditation is seeing the truth
of oneself as pure existence,
being, i am, spirit, Self,
nature without check with original energy.
sitting in meditation is not a religious
ritual that's lost touch with
wisdom from which it descended;
it's, in truth, just not-thinking being.
sitting in meditation may as well
be standing in action;
get up arjuna:
don’t think about it; apperceive!
2011-10-26
2011-10-24
the waking sutra
before time & space is awareness,
& in the beginning was light of consciousness
evolving through good & bad
until all is clear in awareness.
one doesn't wake up in the world.
the world becomes clear in one.
embrace your pawn.
it's your only move.
check and mate.
the taste of bliss and then
shit happens; rinse and repeat.
“unscrew the locks from the doors!
unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”
disattach, disattach, disattach.
unscrew, unscrew, unscrew.
unscrew you!
unscrew me!
“i speak the password primeval”
who?
what is called the mind can only lead
to the knowledge one is not the mind.
only pure existence itself is intuit.
going back to the deep sleep pure awareness
to where one always inevitably goes
because one is always there in actuality.
& in the beginning was light of consciousness
evolving through good & bad
until all is clear in awareness.
one doesn't wake up in the world.
the world becomes clear in one.
embrace your pawn.
it's your only move.
check and mate.
the taste of bliss and then
shit happens; rinse and repeat.
“unscrew the locks from the doors!
unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”
disattach, disattach, disattach.
unscrew, unscrew, unscrew.
unscrew you!
unscrew me!
“i speak the password primeval”
who?
what is called the mind can only lead
to the knowledge one is not the mind.
only pure existence itself is intuit.
going back to the deep sleep pure awareness
to where one always inevitably goes
because one is always there in actuality.
2011-10-23
IDEOGRAMS3 - actualization
—driving—east—sky—dusky—clouds—
—sunlit—hill—golden—leaves—glowing—
—side-view—mirror—sun—blinding—totality—
—sunlit—hill—golden—leaves—glowing—
—side-view—mirror—sun—blinding—totality—
just saying sutra
that is nothing to this.
dead man living.
reality is a greased pig.
feel your Self.
nullus mentis.
it's all bloopers.
14 billion years on the day shift.
achtung unborn!
you can't think no thoughts; you is a thought.
peace love and unknowing.
thought is self generating.
look mu no hands!
krishna to arjuna: do your job and shut up!
call me is.
a middle class buddha is something to be.
i of the hurricane.
the age of civilization is an error.
nothing is something real.
forget everything remembered.
a light year to light is no time at all.
noise will be noise.
return to never, address unknown
in the weeds but not of the weeds.
locks are the final attachments.
occupy your Self.
the universe is looking through "your" eyes.
the mystic sings; the sage is silent.
intoit.
dead man living.
reality is a greased pig.
feel your Self.
nullus mentis.
it's all bloopers.
14 billion years on the day shift.
achtung unborn!
you can't think no thoughts; you is a thought.
peace love and unknowing.
thought is self generating.
look mu no hands!
krishna to arjuna: do your job and shut up!
call me is.
a middle class buddha is something to be.
i of the hurricane.
the age of civilization is an error.
nothing is something real.
forget everything remembered.
a light year to light is no time at all.
noise will be noise.
return to never, address unknown
in the weeds but not of the weeds.
locks are the final attachments.
occupy your Self.
the universe is looking through "your" eyes.
the mystic sings; the sage is silent.
intoit.
2011-10-22
the illusion sutra
it's the illusion, stupid.
illusion is biological,
but one is not the bio.
the only work is disillusionment;
the rest is rest.
society is mass illusion;
work on one.
if one thinks one is without illusion,
welcome to the illusion!
the illusion is uncontrollable;
enjoy the ride!
and in the end, thus it was said:
even illusion is illusion.
illusion is biological,
but one is not the bio.
the only work is disillusionment;
the rest is rest.
society is mass illusion;
work on one.
if one thinks one is without illusion,
welcome to the illusion!
the illusion is uncontrollable;
enjoy the ride!
and in the end, thus it was said:
even illusion is illusion.
IDEOGRAMS2
—ground—brown—floor—green—braided—
—mother—life—dream—death—kindred—
—sky—blue—ceiling—white—seamless—
—mother—life—dream—death—kindred—
—sky—blue—ceiling—white—seamless—
2011-10-21
IDEOGRAMS1
—window—nothing—reflection—living-room—light—
—wall—painting—forest—highway—traveller—
—shadow—glass—moonlight—woods—apparition—
—wall—painting—forest—highway—traveller—
—shadow—glass—moonlight—woods—apparition—
2011-10-20
the metaphor sutra
silence is the shadow of the truth.
good morning, beautiful multi-colored pet snake of the sensible world!
the magician of consciousness that believes its own trick.
one could say it took almost 14 billion years to pull the rabbit out of its hat but the 14 billion years is part of the trick!
who's the rabbit?
the world of ten thousand mixed metaphors!
going out to play in the falling metaphors...
in the sun and of the sun.
sight itself is the greatest occlusion.
space: the final metaphor.
the autumn falling believes!
believe no words, no matter how lightly they wear their metaphor. no word is naked. one is not even 'awareness.'
without metaphor, there's nothing to say and that's the truth.
truth is only witnessed on an experiential intuitive level;
words are for fools! ~a fool
good morning, beautiful multi-colored pet snake of the sensible world!
the magician of consciousness that believes its own trick.
one could say it took almost 14 billion years to pull the rabbit out of its hat but the 14 billion years is part of the trick!
who's the rabbit?
the world of ten thousand mixed metaphors!
going out to play in the falling metaphors...
in the sun and of the sun.
sight itself is the greatest occlusion.
space: the final metaphor.
the autumn falling believes!
believe no words, no matter how lightly they wear their metaphor. no word is naked. one is not even 'awareness.'
without metaphor, there's nothing to say and that's the truth.
truth is only witnessed on an experiential intuitive level;
words are for fools! ~a fool
2011-10-19
2011-10-18
Nisargadatta - work on
Work on, and the universe will work with you. After all the very idea of doing the right thing comes to you from the unknown. Leave it to the unknown as far as the results go, just go through the necessary movements. You are merely one of the links in the long chain of causation.
Fundamentally, all happens in the mind only. When you work for something whole-heartedly and steadily, it happens, for it is the function of the mind to make things happen. In reality nothing is lacking and nothing is needed, all work is on the surface only. In the depths there is perfect peace.
All your problems arise because you have defined and therefore limited yourself. When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire.
You have enclosed yourself in time and space, squeezed yourself into the span of a lifetime and the volume of a body and thus created the innumerable conflicts of life and death, pleasure and pain, hope and fear. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.
Fundamentally, all happens in the mind only. When you work for something whole-heartedly and steadily, it happens, for it is the function of the mind to make things happen. In reality nothing is lacking and nothing is needed, all work is on the surface only. In the depths there is perfect peace.
All your problems arise because you have defined and therefore limited yourself. When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire.
You have enclosed yourself in time and space, squeezed yourself into the span of a lifetime and the volume of a body and thus created the innumerable conflicts of life and death, pleasure and pain, hope and fear. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.
K. on Truth & Civilization
What is civilization, what is culture as we know it now? It is the result of the collective will, is it not? The culture we know is the expression of many desires unified through religion, through a traditional moral code, through various forms of sanction. The civilization in which we live is the result of the collective will, of many acquisitive desires, and therefore we have a culture, a civilization which is also acquisitive. That is fairly clear.
Now, within this acquisitive society, which is the result of the collective will, we can have many reformations, and we do occasionally bring about a bloody revolution, but it is always within the pattern because our response to any challenge, which is always new, is limited by the culture in which we have been brought up. The culture of India is obviously imitative, traditional; it is made up of innumerable superstitions, of belief and dogma, the repetition of words, the worship of images made by the hand and by the mind. That is our culture, that is our society, broken up into various classes, all based on acquisitiveness; and if we do become nonacquisitive in this world, we are acquisitive in some other world, we want to acquire God, and so on. So our culture is essentially based on acquisitiveness, worldly and spiritual; and when occasionally there is an individual who breaks away from all acquisitiveness and knows what it is to be creative, we immediately idolize him, make him into our spiritual leader or teacher, thereby stifling ourselves.
As long as we belong to the collective culture, collective civilization, there can be no creativeness. It is the man who understands this whole process of the collective, with all its sanctions and beliefs, and who ceases to be either positively or negatively acquisitive - it is only such a man who knows the meaning of creativeness, not the sannyasi who renounces the world and pursues God, which is merely his particular form of acquisitiveness. The man who realizes the whole significance of the collective and who breaks away from it because he knows what is true religion, is a creative individual, and it is such action that brings about a new culture. Surely, that is always the way it happens, is it not?
The truly religious man is not the one who practices so-called religion, who holds to certain dogmas and beliefs, who performs certain rituals or pursues knowledge, for he is merely seeking another form of gratification. The man who is truly religious is completely free from society, he has no responsibility towards society; he may establish a relationship with society, but society has no relationship with him. Society is organized religion, the economic and social structure, the whole environment in which we have been brought up, and does that society help man to find God, truth - it matters little what name you give it - or does the individual who is seeking God create a new society? That is, must not the individual break away from the existing society, culture, or civilization? Surely, in the very breaking away he discovers what is truth, and it is that truth which creates the new society, the new culture. I think this is an important question to ponder over. Can the man who belongs to society - it does not matter what society - ever find truth, God? Can society help the individual in that discovery, or must the individual, you and I, break away from society? Surely, it is in the very process of breaking away from society that there is the understanding of what is truth, and that truth then creates the ripples which become a new society, a new culture. The sannyasi, the monk, the hermit renounces the world, renounces society, but his whole pattern of thinking is still conditioned by society; he is still a Christian or a Hindu, pursuing the ideal of Christianity or of Hinduism. His meditations, his sacrifices, his practices are all essentially conditioned, and therefore what he discovers as truth, as God, as the absolute, is really his own conditioned reaction. Hence society cannot help man to find out what is truth. Society's function is to limit the individual, to hold him within the boundary of respectability. Only the man who understands this whole process, whose action is not a reaction, can find out what is truth, and it is the truth that creates a new culture, not the man who pursues truth.
~J. Krishnamurti
Now, within this acquisitive society, which is the result of the collective will, we can have many reformations, and we do occasionally bring about a bloody revolution, but it is always within the pattern because our response to any challenge, which is always new, is limited by the culture in which we have been brought up. The culture of India is obviously imitative, traditional; it is made up of innumerable superstitions, of belief and dogma, the repetition of words, the worship of images made by the hand and by the mind. That is our culture, that is our society, broken up into various classes, all based on acquisitiveness; and if we do become nonacquisitive in this world, we are acquisitive in some other world, we want to acquire God, and so on. So our culture is essentially based on acquisitiveness, worldly and spiritual; and when occasionally there is an individual who breaks away from all acquisitiveness and knows what it is to be creative, we immediately idolize him, make him into our spiritual leader or teacher, thereby stifling ourselves.
As long as we belong to the collective culture, collective civilization, there can be no creativeness. It is the man who understands this whole process of the collective, with all its sanctions and beliefs, and who ceases to be either positively or negatively acquisitive - it is only such a man who knows the meaning of creativeness, not the sannyasi who renounces the world and pursues God, which is merely his particular form of acquisitiveness. The man who realizes the whole significance of the collective and who breaks away from it because he knows what is true religion, is a creative individual, and it is such action that brings about a new culture. Surely, that is always the way it happens, is it not?
The truly religious man is not the one who practices so-called religion, who holds to certain dogmas and beliefs, who performs certain rituals or pursues knowledge, for he is merely seeking another form of gratification. The man who is truly religious is completely free from society, he has no responsibility towards society; he may establish a relationship with society, but society has no relationship with him. Society is organized religion, the economic and social structure, the whole environment in which we have been brought up, and does that society help man to find God, truth - it matters little what name you give it - or does the individual who is seeking God create a new society? That is, must not the individual break away from the existing society, culture, or civilization? Surely, in the very breaking away he discovers what is truth, and it is that truth which creates the new society, the new culture. I think this is an important question to ponder over. Can the man who belongs to society - it does not matter what society - ever find truth, God? Can society help the individual in that discovery, or must the individual, you and I, break away from society? Surely, it is in the very process of breaking away from society that there is the understanding of what is truth, and that truth then creates the ripples which become a new society, a new culture. The sannyasi, the monk, the hermit renounces the world, renounces society, but his whole pattern of thinking is still conditioned by society; he is still a Christian or a Hindu, pursuing the ideal of Christianity or of Hinduism. His meditations, his sacrifices, his practices are all essentially conditioned, and therefore what he discovers as truth, as God, as the absolute, is really his own conditioned reaction. Hence society cannot help man to find out what is truth. Society's function is to limit the individual, to hold him within the boundary of respectability. Only the man who understands this whole process, whose action is not a reaction, can find out what is truth, and it is the truth that creates a new culture, not the man who pursues truth.
~J. Krishnamurti
2011-10-15
2011-10-13
1. the material
as long as one believes that consciousness arises from the material, one will be lost in the material.
spiritual inquiry is all about investigating what one really is; am i material? if not, what am i?
when considered, it becomes obvious that what i think i am is obviously a thought. and i am not a thought. what am i?
the best answer the mind can give to the question ‘what am i?” is ‘i am.’ only pure existence is immediately undeniable.
but i am not the mind’s ‘i am.’
some indefinable pointers to what i am: being, consciousness, energy. all in awareness! feel them; don't think them.
when resting in what i am, it is intuitively experienced that the material arises in what i am, a dream of subject & objects defined by mind.
spiritual inquiry is all about investigating what one really is; am i material? if not, what am i?
when considered, it becomes obvious that what i think i am is obviously a thought. and i am not a thought. what am i?
the best answer the mind can give to the question ‘what am i?” is ‘i am.’ only pure existence is immediately undeniable.
but i am not the mind’s ‘i am.’
some indefinable pointers to what i am: being, consciousness, energy. all in awareness! feel them; don't think them.
when resting in what i am, it is intuitively experienced that the material arises in what i am, a dream of subject & objects defined by mind.
2011-10-12
2011-10-11
2011-10-10
Nisargadatta - pure light
Primary is the infinite expanse of consciousness, the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be. When you look at anything, it is the ultimate you see, but you imagine that you see a cloud or a tree.
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.
Even the sense of 'I am' is composed of the pure light and the sense of being. The 'I' is there even without the 'am'. So is the pure light there whether you say 'I' or not. Become aware of that pure light and you will never lose it. The beingness in being, the awareness in consciousness, the interest in every experience—that is not describable, yet perfectly accessible, for there is nothing else.
~Nisargadatta
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.
Even the sense of 'I am' is composed of the pure light and the sense of being. The 'I' is there even without the 'am'. So is the pure light there whether you say 'I' or not. Become aware of that pure light and you will never lose it. The beingness in being, the awareness in consciousness, the interest in every experience—that is not describable, yet perfectly accessible, for there is nothing else.
~Nisargadatta
2011-10-09
2011-10-08
Nisargadatta - see the imaginary
Assert your independence in thought and action. After all, all hangs on your faith in yourself, on the conviction that what you see and hear, think and feel is real. Why not question your faith?
No doubt, this world is painted by you on the screen of consciousness and is entirely your own private world. Only your sense 'I am', though in the world, is not of the world. By no effort of logic or imagination can you change the 'I am' into 'I am not'. In the very denial of your being you assert it.
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination!
However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real.
See the Imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
No doubt, this world is painted by you on the screen of consciousness and is entirely your own private world. Only your sense 'I am', though in the world, is not of the world. By no effort of logic or imagination can you change the 'I am' into 'I am not'. In the very denial of your being you assert it.
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination!
However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real.
See the Imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
2011-10-07
dreamverse 2 - deconstructive
sayonara socrates
in namaste pajamas
salivating deconstructive
photosynthesis
of rice and then
in namaste pajamas
salivating deconstructive
photosynthesis
of rice and then
2011-10-05
2011-10-03
rekoan 13
one doesn't see with the mind;
one doesn't see the mind;
one is not blind to the mind;
this is seeing
one doesn't see the mind;
one is not blind to the mind;
this is seeing
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