Adjashanti Exploring Sri Nisargadatta's Teaching on the Absolute
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This is a Session 3 excerpt from Adyashanti's “I AM THAT: Exploring the Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj” Course, recorded in 2014, as it relates to the Absolute.
What I found particularly interesting in this excerpt is Adya’s conclusion that whenever Sri Nisargadatta used the terms, “Awareness, Potential, Void or No-Self,” at different times with different questioners, he was usually referring to what he originally called the “Nameless Absolute.”
I was also fascinated by the following quote (which, along with the 3 Principles also offered below, inspired the related haiku) Adya offered in the process of clarifying Sri Nisargadatta’s dogged insistence on “Awareness Being both One with and yet Other than Consciousness.” With said difference being, in its simplest terms: “Awareness is Consciousness without as Object and Consciousness is Awareness with an Object”:
“A Jnani knows himself to be the immovable center of the movable, the eternal witness of the transient. The center is a point of void, the witness a point of pure awareness. They know themselves to be as nothing.” - Sri Nisargadatta
Or more simply expressed in what I am fond of calling Sri Nisargadatta’s “Three Cosmological (for want of a better word) Principles”:
(1) “Consciousness is a Bubble on the Absolute.”
(2) “We are Rays of the Absolute.”
(3) “We are Dimensionless Points in (at the Heart of Awareness or) Consciousness (like holes in a paper bag).”
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"Hay-Ku of the Days" (HOTDs): gabihay03.wixsite.com/website-14 .]
The greatest teaching. Thanks for posting
I so look forward to reading his works. He realized that he IS Brahman - the absolute. That changes one's perspective as you know you are Awareness, unborn, nondual, and ever-free. That is one's true nature. In other words, the idea that one is not or some thing is a case of myth-identification, but you wouldn't know THAT until you do. Thankfully, Awareness is effortless. Taking up the habit of resting in THAT (Awareness) daily, even for brief periods, leads to the realization and firm conviction that you are THAT. After Awakening, you realize you always were awake because you know your self to be Awareness. Then comes the danger of going around like the Its-man on Monty Python as you want to tell people what it's like (see The It's-man & Intros of Monty Python's Flying Circus on CZcams), or they ask you what it's like, as evidenced on CZcams by the plethora of channels titled 'nonduality' or 'my awakening experience' in which "It's" practically becomes a mantra. Alas, the ineffable is inevitable.
How do we even know we existed before birth or go on after death?
Rays of the Absolute….
Prior to Consciousness - Parabrahman.