Reality 04
Dakshinamurti (primal Guru)
In the Reality 02 installment, the following small paragraph
initially made an important point, and a promise of future follow-up which
begins here.
"What makes
thoughts apparent is their limited duration in Time, & the fact that each
is a "dyad" a "dipole" of objective thought & reference
– "me". A thought of "bad" is bad for me;
good for me; near me; far from me; important to me; etc. More of this Ego–me at a later point."
This being one such "later point", it may help to
begin with the common analogy for pure Non-Dual Consciousness, that of it being
a vast, in fact infinite Space or shoreless, bottomless, topless Ocean. As if a ghostlike thought, a wave or eddy in
this Ocean or Space of Consciousness, imagine there appears the notion of "other", an
impossible "other" in a Non-Dual in which there is no "other".
One Sanskrit term for Absolute Non-Dual Reality is Brahman, another is Sat–Chit–Ananda, Existence–Consciousness–Bliss. At the same time, that Reality, identical to Brahman, is said to be the Absolute
Non-Dual Self, Atman. But with the notion of "other", a strange inversion seems to
occur. The vast infinite, Ananta, that is the Self, Atman, seems to shrink to the
infinitesimal bindu, bound–point, of aham, Ego–me, or Ego– I.
The remaining infinite space or ocean of reality correspondingly becomes
idem, this. That seemingly objective
"this" flees further from Non-Duality, becoming dual, multiple,
plural, diverse in ever so many ways –
filled with objects & energy fields, & so on. This occurs "inwardly" as a Mind full
of thought, as Minds filled with many thoughts; & outwardly as the Universe
– objects conceived, &
apparently perceived, as objective thoughts.
Beyond all such analogies, this apparent split of
Non-Duality into Duality, is the essence of Creation, Illusion, &
ultimately, false Bondage to the vagaries of apparently objective existence as
a Body & a Mind.
The above repeated "dipole
of objective thought & reference –
Me" is the essence of this split. The Buddhists included such among
the various meanings of "Dependent Origination". Western science &
technology later came to call this "boot–strapping" – as in
"lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps". Such a fanciful defying of Gravity, by
pulling one's feet off the ground, indicates a perplexing self– generation of 2 opposite Poles out of
nothing.
In Quantum Physics, the Void can seem to give brief birth to
opposing virtual particles in much
this manner. Some theories even posit an
original Big Bang in this
manner. When we start up the computer,
we say that we "booted", as in "boot–strapping, where one code simultaneously self–generates another & vice
versa, until the Operating System starts.
Whatever the term, or Analogy, Dependent Origination, or Boot–strapping, can be a helpful indication
of this apparent, above-mentioned split from Non-Duality to Duality, from Atman to aham–idam, Me–This. This very manner
speaking will be the topic of our next installment.
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"There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage,
no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who
has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth." – the
"no creation" school of Gaudapada Nome
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