Experiments in truth

per aspera ad astra

2012-01-05T12:59:00.001-08:00

2011-06-12T15:00:00.000-07:00

Laughing at the word Two

2011-06-12T14:49:00.000-07:00

Only That Illumined One
Who keeps Seducing the formless into form
Had the charm to win my Heart.

Only a Perfect One
Who is always Laughing at the word Two
Can make you know Of Love...
- Hafiz

2010-08-29T07:04:00.001-07:00

När jag förstod att orden döljer sanningen.
Blev tystnaden självklar ...

Relative and absolute truth ...

2010-04-06T13:29:00.000-07:00

The Nondual Absolute Reality in Itself - Shunyata, Paramatman, Tao, Buddha-nature, etc - is the Supreme Ground of all Reality. Its attainment is experienced as Nirvana or Liberation or Self-Realization. The opposite of this state is the world of phenomena, Maya, the relative truth, Illusion, Samsara, subject to Ignorance (avidya) of one's True Nature, craving, unhappiness, and so on.

That's why the various Indian philosophies (Vedanta, Mahayana, etc) speak of the "Two Truths", the Relative and the Absolute Truth. Hence Enlightenment (realisation of the Absolute) is not something to be attained, because one always was and is the Absolute. Enlightenment is simply the realisation that you are the Absolute right now, and that there is no birth or death, future or past, self or other, but only the eternal present, the one universal "I"

-- Picture: Eye of God - Helix nebula, NGC7293

Att så ett frö ...

2010-04-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

Vilken magi det ligger i att så ett frö, på ytan kan det vara oansenligt, svart och torrt, nästan som om det inte vore av något värde alls...
Hur skall vi få veta vilka hemligheter som gömmer sig därinne om vi inte planterar det i jorden och ger det ljus, vatten och näring ...

Hur skall vi någonsin få veta vad fröet blir om det inte får gro och växa?
Har Du planterat ditt frö?

Gåtan ...

2010-04-02T14:17:00.001-07:00

"Det var i slutet av Juli, gräset var fortfarande grönt trots den böljande värmen som svept fram de senaste veckorna. Det var som om blad och grässtrån kämpade emot, de sög i sig det livgivande ljuset men undvek att bränna sig. Jag satt där i de sista solstrålarna, det började sakta skymma, kvällen var varm och inbjudande.

Jag funderade, tänkte på allt som hänt de sista åren, allt jag lärt mig och hur lätt det var att glömma och förlora det igen. Hur rädslan kan hugga tag i en, leda en bort från stillheten och det medvetna, slunga ut en i ekorrhjulet igen och lämna en springade runt runt utan minsta tillstymmelse till väg ut.

Vad märkligt livet är, dess myriader av stigar och vägar, denna komplexa väv av möjligheter, val och tillfälligheter som sakta vecklar ut sig framför våra fötter vare sig vi vill eller inte.

Våra sinnen och tankar har en enorm styrka, dess kraft kan kasta oss långt bortom vårat eget syfte, när tankemönster och sinnesförnimmelser tar överhand har vi inte mycket att sätta emot, vi åker runt i mal strömmen. Det är som om vårt syfte drunknar under tankarnas virvlar och sinnenas brus. Men där finns också en tålmodighet, det inre i oss väntar, det vet att efter storm kommer stiltje, det väntar tills vi är beredda att lyssna igen.

Jag kunde nästan förnimma den där tålmodigheten där jag satt en kväll i Juli, mitt bland böljande gräs, det var mjukt, jag kände värmen i jorden genom mina kläder. Himlavalvet ovanför omslöt mig med sin oändligt rymd och tomhet, de första stjärnorna hade redan börjat bli synliga. Jag kände en inre glädje och slogs av den enkelhet, klarhet, tystnad och stillhet jag upplevde .. precis som om livets gåta vore så enkel att den nästan är omöjlig att skönja bortom dess till synes komplexa innehåll. Gåtan gäckar oss, den låter oss expandera och drar oss inåt och så utåt igen .. varje gång vi möter tystnaden och stillheten förstår vi lite mer, varje gång ökar vårt medvetande ..och i just detta finns livets yttersta hemlighet..."

Time I am ...

2010-02-06T13:30:00.000-08:00

"Time I am", destroyer of the worlds, and I have come to engage all people ...

Centrum

2009-11-22T13:59:00.000-08:00

Du är alltings mitt!
Du är centrum!
Du är evigheten!
Du är leken, dansen och tystnaden.
Du är Döden och Livet.
Ja, allt är Du, inget fattas Dig
fast Du så gärna vill tro det ...

"In things mysterious, I am silence."

2009-10-18T00:30:00.000-07:00

A typical malady of the modern era is mankind's inner turmoil, the offshoot of an unnaturally fast pace of life. Silence , means quietening this turbulence by withdrawing from activity and turning all effort inwards. The internal dialogue quietens gradually; and then, when the silence becomes profound, the voice of God speaks.

Thus, the more we come near to hearing God's own voice, entering the ultimate of mysteries, our own need to speak becomes lesser. Compare this to the honeybee, which hums only while hovering over a flower. No sooner than it lands and begins to suck the nectar, all humming ceases.

Delusion

2009-10-16T15:38:00.001-07:00

When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard ...

Attachments

2009-10-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.

The senses are so strong and impetuous, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.

While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.
From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool ...

One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace?

As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man's intelligence.

What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage ...

Everywhere are His hands and legs ...

2009-09-23T14:43:00.000-07:00

Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists.

The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes of nature, and at the same time He is the master of all modes of material nature ...

The Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally, in the moving and nonmoving. He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to all.

Although the Supersoul appears to be divided, He is never divided. He is situated as one.

Infallible

2009-09-05T17:04:00.000-07:00

There are two classes of beings, the fallible and the infallible.
In the material world every entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every entity is called infallible...

Work

2009-08-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

... there is no work prescribed for Me within all the planetary systems.
Nor am I in want of anything,
nor have I need to obtain anything
--and yet I work!

2009-07-04T02:58:00.000-07:00

The modes of material nature

I shall declare to you this supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have attained the supreme perfection

Material nature consists of the three modes--goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.

The mode of goodness being purer than the others, is illuminating, and it frees one from all sinful reactions. Those situated in that mode develop knowledge, but they become conditioned by the concept of happiness.

The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities.

The mode of ignorance causes the delusion of all living entities. The result of this mode is madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul.

The mode of;
- goodness conditions one to happiness,
- passion conditions him to the fruits of action, and
- ignorance ... to madness...

2009-07-03T11:24:00.001-07:00

Man follows the ways of the Earth.
The Earth follows the ways of Heaven.
Heaven follows the ways of Tao.

Tao follows its own ways ...