Nonduality Now

Rudra Hridaya Upanishad:

"There are two birds in this body, the Jiva and the Paramatman. The Jiva eats the fruit of his Karmas, but the Paramatman is untouched by anything. The Paramatman is only the Sakshi. He does not do anything. He only assumes the form of the Jiva through His Maya, just as the Akasa inside a pot seems to be different from the Akasa outside and assumes the form of the pot. In reality all is Siva, Advaita, the One Absolute. There is no difference of whatever kind."

and more, in verse form at Temple De Shiva, a blog with impressive collection of Stotras and Slogas.

A short introduction to my favorite Christian Priest:

"Abhishiktananda. Henri Le Saux, as he was known in his early life in France, was born 100 years ago this year. At the age of 19 he entered a French Benedictine monastery. As a young monk he felt a call within a call and that was to go to India and live out his monastic life there seeking God in the most radical way possible: by total renunciation. And so he became a sannyasi, a renouncer. From then on his name became Abhishiktananda." -

The post could have covered more ground- it is too short to do justice to a great man. I should say, saint.

Interlocutor 3: I was under the impression that subtle duality, the ego being thought and duality must come to an end. 

RFG: True, but when you say, “must come to an end… ” well the language implies that it’s something that has to be done with effort, or deliberation, but it truly happens in Unitary Perception, that end of duality happens spontaneously when you enter this different activity of the brain, which is B, which is Unitary Perception, then this cyclic activity ends, then the constant wakefulness, the end of somnolence, the end, and then… the end of the cyclic pattern of C and the end of duality, the end of conflict. Meaning, there’s an end to, “I like it”, “I don’t like it”. See what I mean? 

Then useless repetition ends. Conflict ends (fear, anger, sorrow, the desire for superfluous things).

Domhnall got a good hotel for me and was asking, “Do you like it?”

Never crossed my mind, whether I like it or not. It has a bed and I’m going to sleep in it, no big problem of liking or not liking. It is an excellent hotel.

No problem, you know? And they wanted me to go to a different room, which was supposed to be better. I said, “I’m ok here”, I said, “I’m ok here”. 

And so there’s not this duality of liking or not liking, better – worse, none of that. That’s it. The duality ends because you are feeling the weight, because you are listening to the sound at the same time, simply, not because you need any effort for duality to end. See the point?

"The difference between Advait philosophy of Shankaracharya and the Advait philosophy of Vallabhacharya is that, in Shankaracharya’s philosophy the soul, Nature (universe) and everything else is Brahm but look different because of the illusion created by the ignorance (avidyā) and veil of maya. In Vallabhacharya’s philosophythe soul, Nature (universe) and everything else is real but appears distinct from Brahm until one is totally engrossed in the bhakti of Krishna (God), at that time everything is realized as God, just as Gopis used to see and realized everything as Krishna and nothing but Krishna."

Spirituality is not just knowledge, but mainly being able to sense the dimensions of the radical human. The effect is a soft deep peace that comes from the Deep.

Mankind desperately needs this spiritual peace. It is the secret source that feeds humanity in all its forms. It bursts from within, radiates in all directions, raises the quality of relationships and touches the hearts of people of goodwill. That peace is made of reverence, respect, tolerance, sympathetic understanding of the limitations of others, and acceptance of the Mystery of the world. It feeds love, caring, willingness to accept and be accepted, to understand and be understood, to forgive and be forgiven.

In a troubled world such as ours, there is nothing more sensible and noble than to anchor our quest for peace in this spiritual dimension.

I think I'll just make two posts a day- one in the morning and one in the evening-

"Disciple: What is this ignorance?

Master: Listen. In the body appears a phantom, the ‘false-I’, to claim the body for itself and it is called jiva. This jiva always outward bent, taking the world to be real and himself to be the doer and experiencer of pleasures and pains, desirous of this and that, undiscriminating, not once remembering his true nature, nor enquiring “Who am I?, What is this world?”, is but wandering in the samsara without knowing himself. Such forgetfulness of the Self is Ignorance."

A short extract from Advaita Bhodha Deepika.

Reflections on meditative experience"

"On the one hand, over three years of meditation (almost every day, always for more than 20 minutes) has led me to accept that it is possible to embrace the wonderful tranquillity of my always-pure essential nature; that this is a distinct thing – distinct from other notions of inner self, an original thing, a deep thing. In some way, that feels like having a soul. But for non-duality! The very moment I start to preceive of my own slice of the one life force being ‘me’ and not life force, things stop making sense. If that inner essence were just ‘me’, then how come during some peak experiences, I have felt what it is to know that I am encountering all Wisdom? Every single bit of wisdom in the cosmos. Life itself. The source. The ground of being. That cannot be ‘me’! I am far from being all Wisdom!" - Mystical Wondering 

Osho makes everything sound simple, but are they?

"If judgement disappears, you have become innocent. If you don’t divide things into good and bad, ugly and beautiful, acceptable and nonacceptable; if you don’t divide things, if you look at reality without any division, your eyes will come into existence for the first time…………..There is nothing good or nothing bad – existence accepts everything. And when you also accept everything you have become existence-like. You have become one with it. ……….Morality, immorality – both are hindrances. When you transcend both you have transcended the mind"

Here is someone taking a original look at what it means to do something: can we be anything other than what we are? If not so, is it possible for us to do anything- is being different from doing?

"Let me give you an example that came up in my vision when I was taking a trip observing rolling hills of beautiful grass while the wind was blowing on a beautiful sunny day. The grass was greener than ever and it was swaying back and forth as if it were full of life. (which isn’t incorrect, grass is life so it would only be natural to look this way.) As to doing or not doing, I can no longer say that it is doing anything other than what it is, grassing if you will. The grasses nature, out of all the manifestations that is Self, is to be bendable, to continuously grow, and whatever mysterious things it may have up its sleeves, but it isn’t doing anything then being what it is. So to see it sway back and forth has nothing to do with the grasses nature, its natural ability to bend makes it seem so but this is not the grasses doing, this is winds nature. The winds nature is to be what it is, is it moving or in action? I can’t say that it is because winds nature is to be wind, it requires no action or reaction for it to happen. So the fact that grass is perceived to be moving isn’t so and the doing of wind is not a doing at all, as it is natural to wind to be it’s nature."- Atomic Potential

The Zennist is one of my favorite blogs: always fresh, and candid.

But here, i found a passage that is useful of you are the kind of person like me, who tries to meditate, trying and trying, to silence the mind:

In a different context, 

" the absolute is always hidden by the very act of thinking about it.  Perhaps a pertinent image, it is like a madman who wants to see the pond as it is without waves, who tries to stop the waves from occuring on the pond by various means such as patting them down with his hands, as if to flatten them!  But he only succeeds in creating more ripples."