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04/16/2016

A commentary on the Heart Sutra, -Advaita Enlightenment Nirvana Philosophy Buddhism Psychology.

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I would mention that a good way to digest this is to just read it through then you will get more familiar with the terms used and the style of writing (which is very potent) and then re-read it. For the Advaita set start here: http://gnostiko.com/

The prajnaparamitahrydayasutra also known as the HEART SUTRA is beautifully illuminated in this commentary.

03/23/2016

THE CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD

Consciousness is generally thought to be produced by the brain’s neural networks, similar to the functions of a computer. This presumption posits that thought and thinking, as well as memory is somehow stored in the cellular structure of the human brain and the information in this storehouse can be accessed through determined thought. Other explanations include the possibility of the existence of a quantum field of information that is integrated with and accessed by the different cellular structures of the brain which allow for recollection, ordering of information, collection of information though the senses, perception, and cognition. This has been detected by scientific investigations and measurements of brain and neural functions, usually termed alpha, beta, gamma, and delta wave functions or frequencies. These waves or frequencies are known to interact with perception and memory in the brain; other ideas are that the interactions take place in the quantum field, or that consciousness itself is the quantum field. Physical sciences, or physics, cannot measure activities of consciousness because consciousness is not objectively physical. Brain activities can be measured though, but this is because cellular tissue is objectively physical. A quantum field is different from an electric or magnetic field; science still knows very little about consciousness itself. From ancient writings we can easily deduce that consciousness has always been THE quantum field and information is received by the senses and minds of sentient life (psychosomatic information processing mechanisms) because of the sentient ability to perceive changes in the interconnected quantum particles in the matrix of the quantum holograph of existence. Understanding interactions and processes within the hologram is a task pursued by science, yet the real sages and rishis and buddhas of all time have known the truth about consciousness as the primordial essence and quantum field. Of course their terminology is a bit different than that used by “modern” science, but they knew nevertheless. Consciousness is not a localized field; it is all-present. An individual may seem to possess what is considered an individual consciousness, but this is just a seeming presumption. The individual interacts with the collective and non-local quantum field through an individualized psychosomatic sentient organism that has a developed capability to acquire information. Individuality, so-called, pertains to the specific patterns of attunement and receptivity to the whole matrix of the holographic universe. The whole consciousness field is accessible once the limitations of individual resonance patterns have been transcended. To transcend such limitations is the reason for the practice of ways and means to know, such as meditation, contemplation, and yoga.

A deep understanding of non-separateness, interconnection, interdependency, and holographic existence helps people to reduce and even eliminate limitations and helps in recognizing and realizing the greater collective quantum consciousness field. The kind of yoga described in these writings is supportive of the contemplative science requisite for getting that recognition and realization for a total and complete harmonization and attunement with the resonant dynamism of the matrix and re-identity with the essential nature of true Being. Consciousness is not a localized field within the brain; the body-mind organism/mechanism is the receiving apparatus for universal consciousness-information and the functions of cognition and perception inherent in the field of pure consciousness itself. A portion of the Western scientific community supposes that consciousness is a product emerging and evolving from objective materiality, this supposition deems matter as primary consciousness as secondary. Sages and yogis say that consciousness is prior to all objectivity which is secondary and that the UNIverse is a unified field of consciousness. Consciousness is what is and all there is.

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12/30/2015

several new pages here now, a little toward ..well... the do it part, e-books are still free for a bit here: http://gnostiko.com/blog/e-books-free/ this stuff is simply the most excellent modern philosophy literature I have found.

12/15/2015

11/13/2015

Pseudo Dualism
What is usually taken as normal perception and cognition is, in fact, a state of false understanding in which nearly everyone abides constantly when they fail to inspect their mental mechanisms and recognize the truth of things as they really are. Enlightening texts such as the Heart Sutra always suggest inspection and analysis of our inner and outer worlds, and awakening to the real nondual situation. Even the “inner” and the “outer” are mere conceptual designations and are not two in reality because dharma cannot be one-sided. If one side is denied then the other side is automatically affirmed and if the opposite choice is taken then the opposite is the result. This is the way the mind habitually splits one reality (dharmata) into a relative pseudo-dualism.

But a pseudo dualism is no actuality; anything pseudo is false, and a false dualism is always as-it-is, false, as all dualisms are always false, not real at all. Dualism is a perspective adopted by a mind endowed with accumulated perceptive filters tainted with ignorance and false knowledge. Dualism does not actually exist anywhere or at any time, just because all it is is a false idea, a false perspective, and such a perspective comes to be believed as fact when the untrained mind operates in its habitual tendency to dichotomize or split parts of reality into opposing factions. If there is an absence of the dichotomizing and falsely discriminating mental dysfunction then there is also the corresponding absence of the false view of duality. This kind of delusion is common in almost everyone but can be eliminated by simple recognition of the dichotomizing conceptual error. Just recognizing what mind is doing in its mechanical processes can deconstruct the errant mental tendencies. Dualism is then seen truly as only conceptual, only a product of the diffused mind.

“Let the knower distinguish the knowledge and the ignorance.”
(∼ Rig Veda)

http://gnostiko.com/blog/pseudo-dualism/

11/13/2015

DEPTH PERSPECTIVE
What is depth perspective? Instead of the common run-of-the-mill type of surface perspective, we can develop a perspective that has the quality of deepness and intensity, a profound and penetrating view, a true view of things as they actually are – instead of the way things may usually merely appear to be. The right perspective is a totalistic and holistic understanding – without the conceptual overlays that are usually present in the way we habitually tend to evaluate the things in our worlds. Instead of taking surface values and characteristics as our whole perspective we can learn to subtract that which tends to corrupt a holistic or depth perspective. The “how to” accomplish this is our primary interest.

Subtracting all the layers of superficial dualistic perspectives may take some effort; enough effort will be needed to break up the patterns developed over a lifetime, and some of these mental patterns are quite well established, and quite well entrenched. But no matter how deeply dug in and fortified they are, they can be put to the sword on the battlefield of Advaitayana Yoga.

Nonduality is the reality. Understanding nonduality comes about by developing insights concerning the actual unity of relativity and all its conditional relations. This can only occur when attention is actively and directly placed in concentrated focus on the object of interest, so there must be a disciplined training that results in a developed capacity to keep the attentiveness stable and from falling into its habitual passive laxity. In passivity of attention, random thoughts and images will arise, speedily and continuously. By assuming an attitude of detached observation toward these random thoughts and images, attention resumes its active state and the mind stops producing the distractive arisings. Thoughts are allowed to go back to where they came from, whereupon vigilant receptivity toward further mental functioning again resumes. Repeated recognition of the difference between passive thought activity and vigilantly attentive presence of awareness has to be accomplished over a long period of time. Just monitor the status of attention and repeatedly place it again and again with vigilant receptivity in the gap between thoughts, waiting silently for the mind to run wildly on again. This practice gives a profound recognition to the difference between passive and active attention. The nearly continuous stream of deluded thinking and passive daydreaming comes about in conjunction with the overlay of memory impressions stored up for who knows how long. The discriminative function of mind gets confused and dysfunctional for this reason. Thoughts are the constricted expression of mental impressions linked to the primary delusion of the ego-notion, the primal dualistic perspective, and its consequent desire motivations. This kind of contemplative practice is a means of extrication from the perverse separative attitude of ego-based conditionality and all that consequentially occurs based on it. When attentiveness is directed to the recognition of dichotomizing mental events, it is possible to detach from these processes and just let be. This is the requisite freeing of constricted attention.

http://gnostiko.com/blog/depth-perspective/

09/07/2015

KEY DISTINCTION
The common individual is quite effectively limited by the conditions of environment, of ignorance, of intellect, of heredity (karmic), and of all sorts of external and internal conflicts and restrictions. Always motivated by some desire or some dislike, for-and-against attitudes and mental sets, nobody seems to be fully satisfied or content. All the objects and objectives of personal motivations support a condition of longing and restlessness of the mind and create situations of identification with some of these objects and events. Thus the ego-notion becomes the basis of all fixed percepts and mental sets, all opinion, all preference, all prejudice. But when the situations supporting the ego-identified perspectives are transcended then there is potential to recognize a higher state of being. This higher state cannot be created or produced by some method, some technology, or some device or discipline, for it is always already the present fact. In this higher state, all distinctions of duality disappear and the apperception is nondual. Peace comes to the fore when mental disturbances supported by the dualistic perspective are done away with, and for this a method or device or discipline can be a help. But all helps cannot produce the beatitude that is already present. The way to understand that subjective purity which is always present is to learn to subtract the obstructive tendencies that seem to continually hide and cover over that pure subjectivity. The key to learning to do this is to repeatedly make the distinction in awareness of the difference between external physical objects, internal mental objects, and pure subject which is the pure consciousness that perceives all objectivity.


http://gnostiko.com/blog/key-distinction/

KEY DISTINCTION The common individual is quite effectively limited by the conditions of environment, of ignorance, of intellect, of heredity (karmic), an

09/07/2015

THE REAL AND THE SEEMING
The “goal”, if it can be called a “goal”, of striving to understand nonduality is to adjust and correct the malfunctioning of the discriminative processes of the mind in order to transcend the errant dualistic perceptions and stabilize in nondual and holistic apperception. This will require a sustained and attentive effort on the part of a serious contemplative practitioner. There is really nothing esoteric or mysterious about nondual apperception; the fact is, though, that the so-called “goal” is so very obvious that it can be extremely difficult to see because it is so obvious. But until there is a gap in the continuous habitual discriminative error of the mind, the vision of the liberative and radical leap into nondual apperception will continue to remain postponed. Hence, in these monographs on Advaita there is a predominance of analytical and suggestive enquiry into the way things really are as compared to the way things merely seem to be.

http://gnostiko.com/blog/the-real-and-the-seeming/

THE REAL AND THE SEEMING The “goal”, if it can be called a “goal”, of striving to understand nonduality is to adjust and correct the malfunctioni

09/07/2015

MOKSHA
Moksha is a Sanskrit word meaning “liberation”. It describes a condition of the individual person that has eliminated or transcended all the unwanted aspects of human life such as ignorance, pain, and suffering. Another description of moksha is that the individual has ceased to identify himself with his body, with the contents of his mind, such as his life story, his race, creed, name, fame, and all other mistaken identities, in this sort of dis-identification the individual enjoys the absence of all the attachments and aversions associated with the identified ego-notion and experiences a true liberation from such things. Yet, this moksha is not experienced by any identified and separate ego entity. Ego is not an entity, ego is only a mistaken notion constructed on the absurd idea that subjective noumenon could be a separate objective phenomenon. A mistaken identity cannot enjoy liberation from itself because there is no self to it. But noumenal essence does enjoy the bliss, the ananda that emerges when the false view of ego is no longer present.


http://gnostiko.com/blog/moksha/

MOKSHA Moksha is a Sanskrit word meaning “liberation”. It describes a condition of the individual person that has eliminated or transcended all

09/07/2015

NAMES
Everything in our physical reality comes and goes. There is non permanence anywhere and even our perceptions are impermanent. Phenomenal objectivity, or objective reality, cannot be separate from our subject reality, consciousness. All and everything in objective reality is perceptible only by our subjective reality which receives a vast amount of sensory data, then the mind conceptualizes and names things. This naming procedure creates an illusion that things are separate from other things because they are conceived of and related to through different names. What is lost in this name game is the fact of conditional functionality. No thing actually exists separate from the totality of the conditional flux of the matrix of existence. Nonduality is a mode of accurate perceptive function that recognizes and understands the conditional non-separateness of all and everything. Names are not a reality, although there is a conventional and conceptual rationale for using words and names, at best this use of language can only be a descriptive finger pointing at the moon, useful in its own relative way, and a necessary step in approaching the reality that cannot be named.

http://gnostiko.com/blog/names/

NAMES Everything in our physical reality comes and goes. There is non permanence anywhere and even our perceptions are impermanent. Phenomenal object