The Holy Qu'ran cuts through a lot of expedients and points to the the Truth in a DIRECT manner. As the Goal of Truth is one,there are many roads that leads to Rome.
What is shared here is my personal journey in connecting all the dots which are openly declared in the Kithab.
For a start we have to accept that GOD is closer to us than our jugular, and being Omnipresent is everywhere and not limited to place of worship. So I will start with the body given by my parents and for this there can be no distant journey as it involved only from here to here.
How then can we intuit the presence of GOD. For this the 99 names of Allah are splendid road signs. I will not dwell on all the names, but a few that will hint on the ineffable [The Hidden].
I will state the few that demonstrate the Oneness of everything as in the concept of Tawhid as this was declared as The Self Existing.
As we have faith that Allah is within us,but at the same time hidden, can we have confirmation of this FACT?. For this we explore some other names of Allah to try and point and locate its dwelling. The kithab declare that Allah is the All knowing, All Hearing, All Aware and the Light of Vision.
Modern science have proven the eyes and ears are only instruments to capture vibrations of different frequencies to be decoded by the appropriate section of the brain. The brain then create a holographic Images and project it outside the sense organs. Who or what then See and Hear these images?. Thr brain in response generates thoughts. Who is it, that is aware of the thought that arises.
? It can only be the knower, Seer and hearer that is behind the sense organs of every sentient beings. That is, the Entire cosmo is within the borderless ocean of Awareness. As Awareness is everywhere and everywhen, there cannot be a dwelling place [position of fixed co-ordinate in space.]
Our Original sin is to accept the forbidden fruit of knowledge and failed to question the secular knowledge that the eyes see, the ear hears and the brain knows, when on close investigation, this functions have been wrongly attributed to the body. What is seen cannot be the seer and what hears cannot be heard. If the seer can be seen, who then see the seer? The 'I' that see, hear, smell, taste, feel and know must be METAphysical. It is the ONE knower and witness that dwell throughout all space and time, self existing without a cause and yet is the Source and Origin of all things witnessed by the one Light of awareness.
Knowing that we cannot identify 'I' with the body-mind [as it can be seen felt and known] our only option is to submit Totally to that which is only ONE, The 'I' in which all things manifest and disappear within its Light.
In conclusion, all we need is to surrender our EGO [false and impermanent self] and submit to the
Source which is the Originator and Knowing of everything.
As a simple check, can anything ever be known unless there are in the presence of something that Knows and Witness all names and forms in space and events in time.
As all is Dependent on awareness and if we name this knowing as Allah, then Thy will be done or Inshaallah is beyond any doubts.
How does one go about the surrendering? Before we read the kithab we ASSume 'I" to be the body mind [an image with name and form]. After gaining The wisdom given in the Kithab we Know the True identity of 'I' which is HIDDEN. We cannot be different "I' at the same time [we cannot be a servant to two master] In surrendering the EGO[the pseudo "I"] we reclaim our birth right as the ONLY 'I" We stop identifying ourselves as one of the multitudes of ever changing waves, but one with the everpresent OCEAN.
Al-Hallaj on learning his true identity exclaimed 'I AM the Truth' and the ignorant fellow muslim slew him.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Diamond Sutra
The Diamond Sutra is the best pointers for Non-duality and deal with the maya nature of all phenomenon.
All with marks such as appearances, sounds, taste, odour, sensations and concepts are all False and the Real have no mark. So even the word consciousness or awareness are false and is used to points out the Real which cannot be spoken,[Mark-less]
Whatever concepts of the real, be it God, Allah, Brahman, they are all arbitrary name and display the mark of language.
If pointers for real are false than it is needless to say names of those with marks are doubly false as with the concept of an entity, an ego, a person, personality and a life.
As pointed out in the last post objects of awareness are manifestations or reflections[expression] of awareness and pertain to the world of dream all having awareness as source and share the same essence of one taste.
There may appear multitude of people. No matter who speaks, it is awareness speaking and the listener is also awareness. The good guy is awareness ,so is the bad guy. The honest and corrupt are personalities of fictitious characters. When all the nouns are fictions, so by relation, all adjective and verbs serve no purpose. If we are the one nature of light than the whole multitude of illusions and events on the screen is nothing but the unmoving light.
The entire projection on the screen and the screen itself is inseparable and is ONE . The gentle sound of breeze and the loud clap of thunder are the one awareness whisper and shouts. When you and me are fiction, than yours and mine are equally fiction.
The film seem to be the cause for the light acquiring the various appearance. This come from karma. The action of one dream provide the script for the next until the dream is seen through and we awake to our True nature as the light and the screen.
All with marks such as appearances, sounds, taste, odour, sensations and concepts are all False and the Real have no mark. So even the word consciousness or awareness are false and is used to points out the Real which cannot be spoken,[Mark-less]
Whatever concepts of the real, be it God, Allah, Brahman, they are all arbitrary name and display the mark of language.
If pointers for real are false than it is needless to say names of those with marks are doubly false as with the concept of an entity, an ego, a person, personality and a life.
As pointed out in the last post objects of awareness are manifestations or reflections[expression] of awareness and pertain to the world of dream all having awareness as source and share the same essence of one taste.
There may appear multitude of people. No matter who speaks, it is awareness speaking and the listener is also awareness. The good guy is awareness ,so is the bad guy. The honest and corrupt are personalities of fictitious characters. When all the nouns are fictions, so by relation, all adjective and verbs serve no purpose. If we are the one nature of light than the whole multitude of illusions and events on the screen is nothing but the unmoving light.
The entire projection on the screen and the screen itself is inseparable and is ONE . The gentle sound of breeze and the loud clap of thunder are the one awareness whisper and shouts. When you and me are fiction, than yours and mine are equally fiction.
The film seem to be the cause for the light acquiring the various appearance. This come from karma. The action of one dream provide the script for the next until the dream is seen through and we awake to our True nature as the light and the screen.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Non-duality
There are many Gurus for Non-duality or Advaita as originated in India. The facts is that ALL religion speaks of this Truth that will end all suffering. The Truth is there is ONLY Awareness [Absolute]
Most people missed the simplicity, when they cannot reconcile the UNknowable Awareness with the known contents of Awareness [which make up the world]. The Subject IS Awareness and the world its objects. There is a fundamental duality of subject/object. At this point many are confused. As indicated in previous posting 'I AM' is the Awareness in which all objects of Awareness come and go. Lord Jesus say ' I AM in the world [Omnipresent Awareness],but not of the world [Objects in awareness]'
The Buddhist Diamond sutra gave us the hint, when it mentioned that all objects are False [illusionary] and therefore have no Objective Reality. That will leave us with the vast empty Awareness as the sole reality.
In the analogy with the mirror, Awareness is the mirror and the world is its myriad reflections. There is only the mirror and its reflections[illusion], the essense of which is the reflectivity of the mirror .
In buddhism this essnce of reality is called buddha nature or Bodhi.
In the Hindu tradition, this is summarised as:
The world is Maya [Illusionary]
Brahman is REAL
Brahman is the World [reconciling the APPARENT duality ]
In the Qu'ran the ONEness as Absolute is given in the teaching of Tawhid.
Another helpul analogy will be the Ocean [Awareness] and the waves on its surface [ forms similar to the objective world] The waves are the Expression of the ocean and the essense of both is water.
With this wisdom, one no longer live in seperation. Human beings,the mountains and river are but different sizes of waves all having water as the essense and arises momentary from the ocean and return to the ocean. { All comes from Allah and return to Allah }
So objects appear from awareness [emptiness] and return into Awareness in nano seconds creating a holographic world with empty space as The screen.
With this Wisdom, our friends and enemies are made up of the same essence as our very own body..Though we APPEAR separate, we belong to the expression of the one WHOLE inseperable awareness. If we take the human body as Oneness,then the limbs and fingers that extends out of the one body,though appear different are parts of the whole. Can the finger on one hand hate or love the finger on the other hand? Love and hate are relationships and it needs more than one to Tango.
In samsara, the individual wave, think one is seperated from other waves IGNOring the Ocean that connects all. The so call waves of one pattern dislike waves of another pattern and consider them hostile and develop hate.
This hostility can only be overcome with wisdom and all disputes be it social, religious, racial or political can then be seen as a gentle game of Solitaire. There is ONLY SELF concern just as one take care of one's body.
The surface roughness of the Ocean does not disturb the peaceful depth of the Ocean [Awareness]. This is Nirvana [Patient Abiding in the uncreated.]
From the POV of the dreamer [Awareness], nothing happens. But from the point of view of the dream characters, dramas of joy, peace, war, hatred and tragedy continue to unfold [In what we consider waking life]
The Dreamer on awakening recall the dream, but fully aware that nothing happen. The dreamer and the Dream is one as the dance and the dancer is one.
The dream is samsara and awakening is Nirvana. The dreamer as Awareness is ever present and is the witness when the dream unfold. When the dream is over, IT recall the dream as IT was PRESENT during the dream as the Witness. Even when all that is in the dream vanished into thin air, Awareness goes no where. Jesus say, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end [of the worldly dream] The ocean remain even when its surface become calm and waveless.
Awakening can be Instant, but liberation require time to allow wisdom to replace the former erroneous habit for thinking of one as a separate Individual.
This latest post is dedicated to Elsie, a friend of Ben2
Most people missed the simplicity, when they cannot reconcile the UNknowable Awareness with the known contents of Awareness [which make up the world]. The Subject IS Awareness and the world its objects. There is a fundamental duality of subject/object. At this point many are confused. As indicated in previous posting 'I AM' is the Awareness in which all objects of Awareness come and go. Lord Jesus say ' I AM in the world [Omnipresent Awareness],but not of the world [Objects in awareness]'
The Buddhist Diamond sutra gave us the hint, when it mentioned that all objects are False [illusionary] and therefore have no Objective Reality. That will leave us with the vast empty Awareness as the sole reality.
In the analogy with the mirror, Awareness is the mirror and the world is its myriad reflections. There is only the mirror and its reflections[illusion], the essense of which is the reflectivity of the mirror .
In buddhism this essnce of reality is called buddha nature or Bodhi.
In the Hindu tradition, this is summarised as:
The world is Maya [Illusionary]
Brahman is REAL
Brahman is the World [reconciling the APPARENT duality ]
In the Qu'ran the ONEness as Absolute is given in the teaching of Tawhid.
Another helpul analogy will be the Ocean [Awareness] and the waves on its surface [ forms similar to the objective world] The waves are the Expression of the ocean and the essense of both is water.
With this wisdom, one no longer live in seperation. Human beings,the mountains and river are but different sizes of waves all having water as the essense and arises momentary from the ocean and return to the ocean. { All comes from Allah and return to Allah }
So objects appear from awareness [emptiness] and return into Awareness in nano seconds creating a holographic world with empty space as The screen.
With this Wisdom, our friends and enemies are made up of the same essence as our very own body..Though we APPEAR separate, we belong to the expression of the one WHOLE inseperable awareness. If we take the human body as Oneness,then the limbs and fingers that extends out of the one body,though appear different are parts of the whole. Can the finger on one hand hate or love the finger on the other hand? Love and hate are relationships and it needs more than one to Tango.
In samsara, the individual wave, think one is seperated from other waves IGNOring the Ocean that connects all. The so call waves of one pattern dislike waves of another pattern and consider them hostile and develop hate.
This hostility can only be overcome with wisdom and all disputes be it social, religious, racial or political can then be seen as a gentle game of Solitaire. There is ONLY SELF concern just as one take care of one's body.
The surface roughness of the Ocean does not disturb the peaceful depth of the Ocean [Awareness]. This is Nirvana [Patient Abiding in the uncreated.]
From the POV of the dreamer [Awareness], nothing happens. But from the point of view of the dream characters, dramas of joy, peace, war, hatred and tragedy continue to unfold [In what we consider waking life]
The Dreamer on awakening recall the dream, but fully aware that nothing happen. The dreamer and the Dream is one as the dance and the dancer is one.
The dream is samsara and awakening is Nirvana. The dreamer as Awareness is ever present and is the witness when the dream unfold. When the dream is over, IT recall the dream as IT was PRESENT during the dream as the Witness. Even when all that is in the dream vanished into thin air, Awareness goes no where. Jesus say, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end [of the worldly dream] The ocean remain even when its surface become calm and waveless.
Awakening can be Instant, but liberation require time to allow wisdom to replace the former erroneous habit for thinking of one as a separate Individual.
This latest post is dedicated to Elsie, a friend of Ben2
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