ATB X ALL IN A DREAM

 ATB X ALL IN A DREAM 

Someone who dreams of drinking wine at a cheerful banquet may wake up crying the next morning. 

Someone who dreams of crying may go off the next morning to enjoy the sport of  FUN. 

When we are in the midst of a dream, we do not know it’s a dream. Sometimes we may even try to interpret our dreams while we are dreaming, but then we awake and realize it was a dream. 

Only after one is greatly awakened does one realize that it was all a great dream, while the fool thinks that he is awake and presumptuously aware. —Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zi), trans. Victor H. Mair, Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu

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Balance

I will be calmly active, actively calm. I will not become lazy and mentally ossified. Nor will I be overactive, able to earn money but unable to enjoy life. I will meditate regularly to maintain true balance.

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,

“Metaphysical Meditations"

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"As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction."

-- Irish blessing

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b We need, therefore, to distinguish between Buddhism as a beliefbased religion and Buddhism as a pragmatic philosophy with ethical and contemplative practices. Yet it is not so easy to know where to draw the line. Among contemporary Buddhists, opinions vary as to whether reincarnation, for example, should be treated as an empirical fact that will one day be confirmed by scientific evidence, or as merely an artifact of prescientific Indian cosmology. Some argue that Buddhism without reincarnation is unintelligible; others insist that the doctrine of reincarnation obscures the Buddha’s primary concerns and should be discarded.

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a There once lived a great Sufi saint by the name of Hazarat Nizamuddin. The story goes that he never went for public prayers except on Fridays. The rest of the week he would sit quietly in his room and meditate. He was a great practitioner of meditation. Now, because he went on Fridays for public prayer, large crowds used to gather to see him. He had a peculiar habit. When he went for the public prayers on Fridays, he used to tie a black blindfold over his eyes and go. He had to be led to the mosque because he was blindfolded. Everybody used to wonder 'what is this’!

One day one of his close associates asked him-"Sir, why do you wear this blindfold ? The saint said, "Do you want to try it ? The man said, "Yes sir, if you don't mind” and he then went to the mosque blindfolded, before the prayer started. There was a lot of people when he arrived at the mosque. Through the blindfold which was acting like a filter, a kind of optical filter, he saw that all the people sitting there had human bodies but with animal heads. The fellow sitting next to him looked like a wolf and another man sitting nearby looked like a tiger ! But their bodies were all human. He was terrified. The saint was sitting by his side and he asked him: Sir what is this ? Please take off this blindfold.

The saint said, “These are their real characteristics. They only have human bodies but they are 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘴 (animals). Now you know what 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪 means. Therefore do not remain blind like an animal. Open your third eye and always perceive that you are the immortal soul. Even when you are sleeping your mind should be at the spiritual centre. If you keep your gaze and attention turned upward to that point between the eyebrows, you will experience the blessings of the astral world consciously. That is why saints in ecstatic communion are depicted with upturned gaze, looking up into heaven. By concentrating on the spiritual eye in deep meditation, one can penetrate into that higher dimension. Your astral body is there now, though your mind and physical body are here. You depend only on what you can see with your two physical eyes and that keeps you continually deluded. If you look into the spiritual eye, you will know the true nature of everything and can receive the right answers in business and all other matters of life. You can use this power all the time. It is an unlimited power and it is within you. Whenever you desire to commune with any saint, think first of his image in the spiritual eye, then relax and concentrate in the heart, trying to feel some of his main characteristics. For instance if you think of Sri Yukteswar, think of wisdom and a calm perception of bliss. Then lose yourself in that perception and the soul of those individuals will possess you. You will start to act, reason, think and feel like them. Sometimes this feeling might last for hours or days. When this is perfected, ultimately you will see them with closed eyes. When that can be done at will, you will then see them with open eyes. This is the great mystery of inner communion with saints. Practice it with unfailing zeal until you are certain of this communion.” Paramahansa Yogananda Paramahamsa Hariharananda

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ANIDAM CHAITANYAM

NOT THIS OBJECT IS CONSC

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WATER OF MATTER BECOMES WINE OF CONSC ? HOW

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CONSC - I don't think anyone's done better than Thomas Nagel's definition from over four decades ago. Something is conscious if there is "something that it is like" to be that thing. There is something that it is like to see red, hear a piano note, smell a rose, taste wine or touch a cat. There's also something that it's like to feel joy, heartbreak, jealousy, contempt and contentment. There's something that it's like to think, to understand, to misunderstand, to believe and to disbelieve.

Moreover, there are "somethings that it's like" that we cannot experience, at least not yet. Echolocation may have a feel entirely different to anything we know. And who knows what being an electric eel feels like. There may even be something it's like to be a plant, a computer or even the Internet.

As for an objective definition, I think integrated information theory (IIT) holds promise. It holds that any causally integrated system instantiates some consciousness. The degree of consciousness is proportional to the degree of integration.

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ACCEPTING A DIFFERENT REALITY CALLED SUBJECT

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EXPERIENCE IS CONSC X OBJECT 

EXPERIENCE IS MEDIATED BY THE MIND

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WDS  X   

TURIYA IS ONLY REALITY WHICH  IS APPARENT AS WAKING DREAMING AND DEEP SLEEP 

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Consciousness is the all that is that pervades all of space, time, and nothingness as the origin. It is the fabric through which physical reality weaves itself.

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FRO FPE

FELT REALITY OF FIRST PERSON EXPERIENCE

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CONSC- What is, what isn't and whatever is in between.

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EXPERIENCE = CXO   ECXO     CONSC X OBJECT

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 Who am I? What is the self? How is it related to being conscious? As an illustration of his concern for both first- and third-person perspectives, Thompson

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A   The Mahabharata describes that there are four types of Blinds in this world such as 1.Netrandha, blinded of eyes, 2. Kamandha, blinded by the lust. 3. Madandha, blinded by the pride or ego and 4. Swarthandha, blinded by the selfishness. The persons blinded of the eyes may not be able to see the exterior world with gross eyes but are able to realize the Divine Entity through the inner eyes, through the intuition or through the speculation etc. On the contrary the other three Blinds can never realize the Entity of God or Self as they are under the veil of clouds being deluded by ego, lust and selfishness. The best example is the character of Duryodhana in the Mahabharata.

“ Naiba pasyati yadyandhah kamandhah naiba pasyati

Nacha pasyati madonmattah swarthi cha naiba pasyati”

Dr.Sanjaya Kumar Mahapatra, Kriya Yogi.

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A

If there is no soul, and consciousness is just how information feels when processed in certain complex ways, then I am nothing more than my thoughts. So why do I experience being me? Why don't I experience being you?

The Buddhist concept of no-soul is to be understood only within the context of the spiritual path, to negate what is not-self. By negating what is not self, I-I (awareness) is discovered to be Self. This big big Self has no shape or form. Because there is no shape or form, awareness is then seen to be all there is, and not a self (as body and mind) generating awareness or consciousness.

Even awareness, as a concept, must be dropped sooner or later, after the nature of awareness is realised.

Intellectually negating what is not-self doesn't lead to the realisation of what is behind I as a self comprised of body and mind. Only awareness of what isn't self, liberates.

For every truth there is a counterfeit, an imitation of the truth. Imitations come into being through semantics. We think we will get closer to self-realization by adopting certain concepts, such as the Buddha's teachings of no-soul. But all that adopting an idea, the truth of which hasn't been personally experienced, does, is to lead to self-pretence and hypocrisy.

To see, exchange your concepts for awareness. Awareness is not a thought. The fake you is nothing more than your thoughts. This is the counterfeit you, as a self consisting of your definitions of yourself. Your self-definitions create boundaries, and within these boundaries the fake you exist, as a limited self. By defining yourself, and believing these definitions - what they supposedly point to - you of course limit yourself too. You deny yourself so much.

The real you is nothing but awareness. Awareness by its very nature is non-dual, formless, not a self, and infinite. No boundaries are here to constitute a form as me.

This is to be realised non-intellectually. To realize it, the imitations, made by thought, must go. My counterfeits are so close to I who am reading this that they can't be observed by looking for them within my body, mind, thoughts or feelings. And as long as I don't see them, I am so close to myself as a form self, that I am that form self. I am too close to myself to step out of this form self from which I operate. I am not even aware that I see myself as a form, because I am so close to it, and I suffer from the Buddhist hypocrisy of believing, but not actually seeing, what is not-self.

The way to see it, is to cultivate awareness of who or what body, mind, thoughts and feelings (experienced objects) appear to: I (subject). To start, simply keep shifting your attention from whatever you experience (objects), to you (subject). When you turn attention to the source of action - you (subject) - you see what you do. You observe your mental doings through your emotions. You also see their effects, realising that your mental doings cause ALL your feelings, not people, events or circumstances. This insight frees you from your dependence on people, events and circumstances, in order to make you feel good. You now realize directly that you don't need to change anything: all you need is to stop reacting mentally to whatever you experience.

When you discover not-doing, the experiencing of yourself as a being of form, disappears, and everything is seen to be One.

The only way in which your mind and its thoughts can aid you, is to remind yourself to keep shifting your attention from what you see, think, feel and experience (objects), to you (subject). Then, actually shift your attention in this manner. When you have done so during every waking moment for several months, you will notice you no longer need to remind yourself, or even shift your attention. You are now always aware of yourself as subject, of your every mental reaction and its effects upon you. This kind of self-awareness allows you to observe what is usually too close to you to observe: the operations of your ego. You now realize with ever-increasing clarity that you are not a soul, not any being comprised of a form. At some point your body and mind will drop off, even if only momentarily, allowing you to see that everything is actually only One, and always were.

Seeing this isn't the end of the spiritual path, but its beginning. Your new life begins here, in complete self-transformation. Life is then joyous and full of hope. You will regain your former love of Life, and your enthusiasm for living.

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C   Thomas Nagel's definition from over four decades ago. Something is conscious if there is "something that it is like" to be that thing. There is something that it is like to see red, hear a piano note, smell a rose, taste wine or touch a cat. There's also something that it's like to feel joy, heartbreak, jealousy, contempt and contentment. There's something that it's like to think, to understand, to misunderstand, to believe and to disbelieve.

Moreover, there are "somethings that it's like" that we cannot experience, at least not yet. Echolocation may have a feel entirely different to anything we know. And who knows what being an electric eel feels like. There may even be something it's like to be a plant, a computer or even the Internet.

As for an objective definition, I think integrated information theory (IIT) holds promise. It holds that any causally integrated system instantiates some consciousness. The degree of consciousness is proportional to the degree of integration.

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AB  The Dalai Lama, addressing the Buddhists more than the scientists, wonders whether all conscious states—even the subtlest states of “luminous consciousness” or “pure awareness” without any mental images—require some sort of physical basis.8 The thought is striking, given the traditional Indian and Tibetan Buddhist view that this sort of pure awareness isn’t physical in nature (at least not in any ordinary sense). Sitting next to me, Richard Davidson, a psychologist, neuroscientist, and longtime participant in the scienceBuddhism dialogue, whispers, “I’ve never heard him say anything like that before!”

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A  “Kriya yoga is known to those who are awake in Truth. The mystery of mysteries is called Pranshakti whose dimensions Mahatmas have explored and which sustains us and keeps us alive. It is a gift of the Supreme Lord. This breath of life or Pranshakti is within each and every one of us, but only the pure in heart and mind have knowledge of it. Thus it is referred to as 'secret'. This Pranshakti gives us life and energy which flows constantly from Sat-Chit-Anand, the Supreme Truth-consciousness and bliss. This blissful Truth is unknown to the spiritually ignorant. The human body is described as having five sheaths or koshas that interpenetrate each other, encasing the soul like the layers of an onion. But the inner presiding Atma or soul is separate from these five sheaths of the individual. The Atma shines with its own innate splendor. It is the witness of the activities and consequences of the three Gunas of nature. It is holy and pure, eternal and indivisible. It is self-manifested. It is peaceful contentment with no end. It is Wisdom itself. Such an Atma is cognized as Oneself in Self-realization. The Lord says: As fire is covered by smoke, as a looking glass is covered by dust, as an embryo by the womb, so the soul is enveloped by desire. The constant enemy of wise men is the unquenchable flame of desire, which conceals wisdom. Thus does the enemy, insatiable desire, prevent sense enslaved beings from attaining Atma Jnana or Divine soul wisdom. Sanctified by asceticism and wisdom and by relinquishing attachment, fear and desire and by becoming engrossed and sheltered in Me, man will eventually attain My nature.” Kriya Yoga Master, Yogivah Giri

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Why do enlightened beings tend to not reincarnate again?

There is nothing to reincarnate into. Body is not you, mind is not you, ego is not you. There is no independent existence called you. You realize that there is not any form or identity that can be you. So it is the end of you. When there is nowhere to find you, empty presence remains. This empty presence was here before this body was born, during its life and will remain also after this body passes away. This empty presence is not being born and is not dying.

There is nothing and no one to reincarnate.

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B  He certainly can’t mean that the basis for pure awareness is the brain. The traditional Buddhist view is that consciousness transcends the brain. For example, Buddhists believe in rebirth—that consciousness carries on from one life to the next—but the brain decays at death

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B The Bhagavad Gita verse 2.20 : “It is never born, never does it die; nor again does it cease to exist. “ .

Getting identified with the limited is the cause. Only a limited can move from one place to another. In the dimension of Unlimited or omnipresence there is no question of moving from one place to another. Because it’s everywhere, from where to where can it move?

Identifying self as body, energy, mind (including all mental activities includes nation, skin color, gender, job, religion, knowledge, with books, god-no god…) , creates the limitation..

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A When there is no more Sanchita karma remains…getting another body is ruled out

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Consciousness: A self aware#1 machine which have experiences#2 when interacting with everything it interacts with.

#1: aware = knowing it exist.

#2: experiences= an event or occurrence which leaves an impression on someone.

The problem comes in explaining what an experience is.
This is often explained by "Is your red, same as my red".

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B  As the Dalai Lama explains in his book, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality, “As the primary feature of light is to illuminate, so consciousness is said to illuminate its objects. Just as in light there is no categorical distinction between the illumination and that which illuminates, so in consciousness there is no real difference between the process of knowing or cognition and that which knows or cognizes. In consciousness, as in light, there is a quality of illumination.”9

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”In the transient realm of time and space, there is constant change in form and expression. But the essence within these changes endures. Everlasting is the soul of man ! The wise do not expect to reap everlasting happiness from friends, possessions or beloved family. They realize that the forms of loved ones will be snatched away by death. Material objects will turn out to be meaningless when one becomes used to them. So concentrate on your immortal Spirit through meditation and find there a harvest of eternal and ever new peace. When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t. A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die”and find that there is no death. Nothing that was real ever died. What dies is only names, forms, and illusions. The real does not die, the unreal never lived. In death only the body dies. Life does not, Consciousness does not and Reality does not. With death the idea of “I am this body” dies. The witness does not. You will go on living in the universal consciousness forever and ever. The only reason why people have such a fear of death is because they do not know who they are and they know nothing beyond the body. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die because you are indestructible consciousness. So discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy. Awake and sleep no more !!”

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