Layback Lani | Journey to Liberation

Bayazid Al Bistami c. 800–848 or 875 CE     The Universal I AM: The Perennial Philosophy of Non-Duality   Musicians  orchestrate with  their instruments, painters with their brush strokes, and writers with their words. These fine artists  possess  the remarkable power to stimulate the intellect, stir the emotions, and evoke deep sentimentality. Yet, impressive as their artistry may  be;  it often lacks a definitive endpoint. It creates a beautiful loop within  the human  experience but  frequently  leads nowhere beyond the realm of feeling. In contrast, the ultimate fine "art" of the Advaita Vedanta philosopher is the orchestration of pointers toward a single, unchanging reality. It is an artistry that  seeks  not to stimulate the mind, but to still it - revealing a path that is not a path, leading to the ultimate realization of existence.   The great philosophical irony of our world is that while nations, c...

  Liberation from the Phenomenal World Beyond the Veil: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Dark Sector Cosmology   The Indian saint, Ramana Maharshi, once stated, "Know yourself and you will know everything, and there will be nothing more to know." This profound directive implies that the macrocosm is reflected in the microcosm. In the pursuit to know oneself, one must inevitably turn to nature, for we are not merely observers of the natural world, but intrinsic components of its unfolding. This realization was also the cornerstone of ancient Chinese philosophy. Long before the advent of modern scientific instrumentation or complex mathematical modeling, the ancient sages arrived at cosmological conclusions that mirror the cutting-edge findings of today’s astrophysicists.   The Scientist vs. The Philosopher   The primary difference between the modern scientist and the ancient oriental philosopher lies not in the data they ob...