It's said Rory,
that thoughts of the Absolute are the greatest sin of all because the Absolute
can only be aprehended in no-thought. You have chosen to write in the Brahman
Consciousness viewpoint, one which I do not acknowledge. For I am a
Buddhist. I only recognize the Three Buddha Bodies.
The difference
being that the Three Buddha Bodies do not reify the ego, because of a subtle
twist of the intellect through using the notion of 'void' versus the Hindu
notion of 'God.'
So I do not
formally acknowledge the Absolute at all, but focus entirely on the relative
when not meditating. (Except when meditation in action. ) The Absolute may know
the Absolute or it may not, the relative takes care of itself, all the better
when the mind merely lets go of it as well.
I'm contrasting
these two religious viewpoints to submit to you that in spite of your assumption
of Brahman your ego is reifying the viewpoint also of Brahman, which means you
cannot use the mind on the relative task at hand. I submit that if you're able
to maintain both things, the relative working on the relative and the Absolute
Absolute, then there is in fact no need to mix the two states as per convention
because mixing them confuses them, and also confuses other
beings.
Moreover,
and this is my real point, that the highest state of awareness also brings
with it the most acute understanding of pain, temporality, and death, and
therefore also brings compassion. It's for this reason that all the deities have
fangs, or blood dripping or head malas, or stand on corpses, or are crucified,
or hamstrung, or minced into countless atoms.
If you cannot
formally acknowledge the depth and suffering of beings simultaneously with your
'Brahman' then that state is shallow. But I'll submit that you most likely can,
and that, since emotion is tejas it will brighten the entire vaishravana lake
when angry, and so on. Yada yada. Which also why the admonitions about how
a split second of anger can destroy the tapas of lifetimes. Yada
yada
Yada
yada
Yada
yada
Yada
yada
Yada
yada
Yada
yada
Being Brahman in
action is mentally divisive. I mean, I'm doing the same thing actually all the
time, except that I'm trying to be the Three Buddha Bodies. I find it
really spaces me out and makes me so aware of my enviroment including the mental
vibes that my brain starts to fry, which is why I am always damping down with
drugs. I have to focus. I decided I have a condition which isn't formally
acknowledged in Western medicine:
To wit, as soon as
I try I get so unbounded that my hold on everything slips clean away and I space
out bigtime. If I even so much as meditate for ten minutes once a day with TM.
It has to do with soma production. Soma makes me space out hard. It also makes
me so calm that it makes motion very difficult.
By profession I
have to focus and I have to move. So I must also balance the two things.
For the benefit of Kirk, it would have been best if he had never learned TM at
all because after every TM session when Kirk's mind clears, he can't stand it
and goes and darkens the mirror. It's a condition this playing hide and
seek, and yet, all the cool people wear shades. (Because the shades cool one
down.)
However, the cool
looking shades of drug abuse aren't in fact cool at all but of the nature of
mara, and when one trys to deny them they screech and drag their claws through
ones nerves. On the other hand the wrathful deities of cognition really enjoy
cognitive or empathogen/entheogen drugs, as people who make breakthrough into
clear speech with the deities on DMT will tell you, the deities are always
thrilled when someone gets the vision and voice because it's quite rare, or
almost unheard of. I'm not saying difficult though as it's easily possible,
especially now.
I mean Jesus, with
the atmosphere of the world having had its astral body almost burned off there's
much less basic samsara for all humans to worry about during meditation. I
remember when the astral still existed, it was really disgusting. It's
gone now. It disappeared at about the Taste of Utopia conference. However the
causal or mental body still exists and it is very willfull and full of conflict,
expect it to go next, and then watch out as humans all start to act like asuras
or devas. Yet there may still be collective pools of astral reified by the
participants who just cannot let go of their own emotional pollution. For those
samsaric beings we must have compassion. But a quick upward glance or even
the slightest aspiration is enough now to bring a clearing.
You say nothing but
Brahman ever existed. I say Brahman is still a relative state, a state of
relatively identifying the Absolute, I speak instead to the opposite state where
one absolutely identifies the relative.
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