- Let's try to mess and crack up your mind: What you understand is what you are not. What you don't understand is what you are. Explanation... Don't try to figure out who or what you are. What understands what you are is what you are not. What doesn't understand what you are is what you are. What you are has nothing to do with knowledge or understanding. What you are does not know what it means to "know or understand". What you are has no meaning. So it makes no sense to understand the meaning. If you don't understand the meaning of this speech, that's fine. The goal of these koans is precisely to NOT make you understand who you are. Be glad you don't understand! This state of no-knowledge, no-thought, no-cognition is enlightenment! This is the purpose: not to make you understand anything. Stay in that misunderstanding. Extend this mental pause indefinitely and you will get what you are. That incomprehensible cognitive suspension is what you are. Did you understand? No? Perfect. Are you confused, perplexed, disoriented? Yes? Great. Stay there. Not sure what to think? Fantastic. Don't try to understand yourself. Nobody can understand what you are. You are too far beyond to be understood in words, concepts, meanings. Be happy not to believe in the illusion of self-knowledge. Be happy that you cannot be known by your self or recognized by others. Do you feel this suspension of meaning? Do you feel this paralysis of the cognitive gear? Go in search of this non-mental state. Leave the mental engine on standby. Don't go into mental gear to figure out who you are. Save your mental fuel for something less demanding, like playing online or working offline. If so, your knowledge may be of use to you. Otherwise it is useless. You cannot understand what you are. If you think you understand yourself, you can be sure that you have been fooled again. And even if you think you understand, you don't really understand. You don't have to understand. Or if you prefer, you have to understand that there is nothing to understand. The secret lies in not trying to understand anything. I hope I have confused you enough. Now remain disoriented in timelessness. You can't get out of there. You're stuck there. Your little self is screwed ... forever. Checkmate, again and again. No knowledge can ever help you out of the unknowable. (Zero)
by littleyogi | May 1, 2017 | hinduism , non-duality , yoga | 0 comments Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (sometimes spelt Vigyan Bhairav Tantra ) is a 5000 year old Sanskrit text of the Shaivism. The text is a chapter from the Rudrayamala Tantra , a Bhairava Agama. Cast as a discourse between the god Shiva and his consort Devi or Shakti. Devi, asks Shiva to reveal the essence of the way to realisation of the highest reality. In his answer Shiva describes 112 ways to enter into the universal and transcendental state of consciousness. These include several variants of breath awareness, concentration on various centres in the body, non-dual awareness, chanting, imagination and visualisation and contemplation through each of the senses. Devi ( Ma Parvati , Lord Shiva’s consort) asks: O Shiva, what is your reality? What is the wonder-filled universe? What constitutes seed? Who centres the universal wheel? What is the life beyond form pervading forms? How may we enter it fully
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