What is Light? That which illuminates.
What illuminates? Awareness.
Awareness is Light. Awareness is not consciousness. Consciousness is reflected awareness. Pure empty Consciousness is Awareness.
Consciousness (of things) is like the moon, reflecting the light of the sun. Awareness is like the sun.
Feel free to discuss
What illuminates? Awareness.
Awareness is Light. Awareness is not consciousness. Consciousness is reflected awareness. Pure empty Consciousness is Awareness.
Consciousness (of things) is like the moon, reflecting the light of the sun. Awareness is like the sun.
Feel free to discuss
With an awareness like the sun expanding and radiating to distant
galaxies, would discovery of the 'shadowed' perimeter not yet reached
approach infinite?
Unlimited Love,
-Bud
Unlimited Love,
-Bud
The sun was only an analogy. There is only light. Darkness is just an appearance due to reflections of light...1 hour ago, Bud Jetsun said:With an awareness like the sun expanding and radiating to distant galaxies, would discovery of the 'shadowed' perimeter not yet reached approach infinite?
Unlimited Love,
-Bud
—Ramana MaharshiPeople want to see the Self as something. They desire to see it as a blazing light, etc. But how could that be? The Self is not light, not darkness, not any observed thing. The Self is ever the Witness. It is eternal and remains the same all along….Sages say that the state [or place] in which the thought ‘I’ [the ego] does not rise even in the least, alone is Silence [mouna] or Self [swarupa]. [That] silent Self alone is God; Self alone is the jiva; Self alone is this ancient world….Attending unceasingly and with a fully [concentrated] mind to Self, which is the non-dual perfect reality, alone is the pure supreme Silence;
Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters, The
Stephen Eskildsen - 2012 - Philosophy
Qi is the mother of spirit. Spirit is the child of qi.
Always make the child and mother guard each other without separating.
Naturally, after many days, the spirit will become stable, and the way
of im- mortality will be accomplished. [Stage] two: Once this has been
attained, let go of your four great elements (or limbs?)47 [of your ...
The Way of Complete Perfection: A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology
2013 - History
As the Yinfu jing (Scripture on the Hidden Talisman) says,l6
'Sacred accomplishment is born here; spiritual illumination emerges from
this.' Qi is the mother of spirit; spirit is the child of qi.”
If you can constantly guard spirit and qi together, without allowing
separation, with time spirit becomes stabilized naturally, and the way
of ...
Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early ...
Louis Komjathy - 2007 - History
And, “Qi is the mother of spirit; spirit is the child of qi.
Like a hen incubating an egg, preserve spirit and nourish qi. Then you
will never be separated from the Wondrous” (ibid.). 367 The black ox is
also mentioned in section 7a above. 368 The Celestial Pass usually
refers to a head location, perfected chongyang's instructions ...
Liu Ming's xiuzhen houbian
tl Fabrizio Pregadio in Cultivating the Dao:
They are different from the precelestial qi of True Unity, which is indestructible for ten thousand kalpas, transcends all things, and is "the only Honored One." Neither life nor death adhere to it, neither Being nor Non-Being are established in it. This qi is the root of the postcelestial jing, qi, and shen, and the ruler of the precelestial jing, qi, and shen.
Meditate on Brahma as made of light - a light consisting of OM, that is the luminous Jnana. When the kundalini joins the SELF she exits through the sockets of the eyes. This subtle jnana is to be kept secret.
Dr. James Mallinson
................................
"The process of creation depends on Nada and Bindu from the union of which Siva and Shakti appear....Only Nada, manifested by the gross (and inaudible) varnas is the denote of meaning. ...primal unvoiced sound (Nada), in almost gross sound (Bindu)....hence the Nada becomes the power of Sakti....sound both as Siva and Sakti....Dualism comes under the literature created after the pluralistic amalgamation of Saivagamas, is not in the earlier Tamil works."
International Journal of Science and Research Publicatons, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2012, "The Concept of Nada and Bindu in Tirumantiram" pdf
Nirmala V., Dept. of Sanskrit Sahitya, Research Scholar, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala, India
The ear collect the spiraling energy from the cosmos, this energy gives life to man, and we see this vitality in the light which shines forth from our eyes.
Tibetan medical doctor.
Tamil Tirumantiram excerpts
They traverse the spheres of sun and moon, pingala and ida, and see visions of past, present, and future. And in that full moon day the nectar, amrita, ripens. Until lowering into the external mind from kundalini heights, time stands still. 875It is the light of Shiva that beams jnana....It is the light born of constant awareness of the pure sound Aum. 2686
Yogiraj Sri Sri Shyama Charan Lahiri MahasayaAll phenomenal things are first heard - phenomenal things are known via sound; sights are seen via sound; scent is via sound; taste is known via sound - knowing is via sound. It is via sound that sound is known. “Shabda” [sound] - meaning: “Sh[a]” = Shiva + “b[a]” = throat + “d[a]” = the door at the region of the anus - all the sounds that resonate from the magnetism of the mortal body down to that point…and by which anything is cognized - that is what is called “shabda.”
37 minutes ago, voidisyinyang said:—Ramana Maharshi
It boils down to the “adhikara” of the people who Ramana Maharshi was speaking to.Just as ‘light’ is used as a metaphor referring to awareness or consciousness, ‘shining’ is used as a metaphor referring to being aware, and ‘shining’, ‘illumining’ and ‘illuminating’ are used as metaphors referring to being experienced by awareness. In this connection a term that was often used by Bhagavan is svayamprakāśa, which means ‘self-shining’ or ‘self-luminous’, and which therefore implies being self-aware. The only thing that is truly self-shining is the pure self-awareness that we actually are, because though our mind seems to be self-shining, it is not actually so, since its self-awareness is only an impure and finite reflection of our original self-awareness, which is both pure and infinite. In other words, our mind is not self-shining because it shines not by any light originating from it but only by means of the light of pure self-awareness, of which it is just a poor and inadequate reflection.
If you were at the level of understanding Self as pure witness then it is that. If you don’t need that anymore, you can advance further with awareness as the lightless light that makes everything appear and known and unknown — via reflected light and shadows
Edited by dwai
Ramana Maharshi:14 minutes ago, dwai said:
People want to see the Self as something. They desire to see it as a blazing light, etc. But how could that be? The Self is not light, not darkness, not any observed thing.
what does light illumine?
does it illumine itself?
does a knife cut itself?
can teeth bite themselves?
what does light illumine?
does it illumine itself?
does a knife cut itself?
can teeth bite themselves?
what does light illumine?
- 1
- 1
SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI
Ramanananda Saraswati), a very old disciple of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Though a Telugu by birth he speaks English and ...... The satvic mind has to be admitted as a concession to argument. The satvic mind is in fact the Absolute ..... whereas the rajasic mind is full of them. The sattvic mind resolves itself into the Life-current.
No comments:
Post a Comment