Layback Lani | Journey to Liberation

  Great Ch'an Master Nothing  The Zen of Non-Dual Awareness   I Know Nothing   To arrive at the conclusion that one knows no “thing” is not an admission of ignorance, but the highest pinnacle of philosophical clarity.  In a non-dual reality, the very concept of a “thing” is a decorative fiction  maintained  by a restless mind. We must split the word "nothing" into " no-thing " to properly understand that in  the Absolute , there are no discrete objects, no separate entities, and no independent phenomena. There is only  a seamless , radiant continuity  of emptiness .  Because things only appear to a conscious mind, one can turn those things off by turning off the mind itself, thereby withdrawing the power consciousness gives to mental projection and leaving only the pure awareness of being.   This realization is  perhaps most  easily grasped in the state of deep, dreamless sleep. In that darkness, there are no  “ ...

  Ramana Maharshi Harilal Poonja      Sri Nisargadatta The Alchemy of Satva     Transforming Matter into Spirit   "Swallowing food is easy; swallowing the consequences is hard." This stark reality serves as the starting point for any serious inquiry into the nature of consciousness. In our modern world, the joy of swallowing is universal, yet it is a joy tragically confined to the tongue. We have elevated taste to the highest measure of satisfaction, obsessing over recipes and culinary sensations designed to make food easier to swallow, while  remaining  willfully blind to the metabolic journey that begins the moment the throat closes.  After taste, w e treat the body as a waste disposal unit rather than a sacred laboratory, and when the inevitable consequences of toxic intake arise, we seek the intervention of allopathy to suppress the symptoms.  Yet the symptoms are merely the body's protest against a lack of harmony.  To...