Self Prayer

Light Knows

Raining Nonduality

A Divine Play in Three Acts

Shankara on the Intellect https://t.co/OxTi3qECex

As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

If sannyāsins thus perform their duties – activities befitting them and are to be performed by them – activities impossible for others to perform – they will not be subjected to criticism and insult as idlers and do-nothing fellows." ~Tapovan, from 'Ishvara Darsana' p.197

"Sannyāsa implies realisation of Truth and the dissemination of the way to ensure that realisation. For intelligent people, it means also the study and the teaching of philosophical works.

Since the world of becoming is indescribable (anirvacanīya) either as real (sat) or as unreal (asat), it is characterized in Vedantic terminology as mithyā, which does not mean, as is often misconceived, "unreal" but "other than real and unreal" (sadasad-vilaksņa). ~S

But ajñāna or avidyā does not mean the absence or the negation, but the reverse, of knowledge. It is antiknowledge, which terminates with the knowledge of Reality. ~Satprakashananda

Brahman as controlling mayā is Iśvara. Brahman as controlled by mayā is jīva. From the position of the jīva, this mysterious principle, māyā, is designated as ajñāna or avidyā, which is usually translated as ignorance or nescience.

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The body is the bodhi tree and the mind is a mirror. (Bodhi has no tree. The mirror has no stand.) We strive to polish it and let no dust collect. (Turiya is unborn. Where can dust alight?)

If God is a concept, so is your person. Atheism is only halfway to the truth, and halfway to the truth is a perilous lie.

This hydroscopic universe appears in absolute consciousness. Consciousness pervades this absorbent world like Vishnu.

1938 - Louis Armstrong - When the Saints Go Marching In https://t.co/kBQ2PCzCSt

The Saints Say

if a dry sponge is a dead sponge and a wet sponge is a live sponge, it's consciousness which gives existence to the material world and not vice versa

shizukesa ya iwa ni shimi-iru semi no koe ~Basho

From a park bench in the Santa Lucia Mountains of Big Sur on the grounds of New Camaldoli Hermitage, I watch the vast Pacific like Merton in Asia.

In Acadia National Park, on the western slope of Cadillac Mountain, I watch the sun set like a nuclear power plant over Eagle Lake 1999.