Akasa

It sometimes seems there is an individual who has a relationship with the absolute.  The individual self realizes there is something other than himself and the manifest world around him.  He calls it pure consciousness and meditates on it, and allows this self-luminous presence to flow through him.  It is he who chooses to be a part of pure consciousness, a person who has something to do.  However, if there is any such thing as eternal or infinite, as the nature of pure consciousness surely must be, then there cannot be a relationship between the finite individual and infinite pure consciousness.

 We think of space as limitless, and we assume there are limited things within this space.  Yet if space be truly limitless those finite things must be made up of that space.  Either there is no infinite eternal existence or there is only infinite eternal existence.  If the former is true then we are bound to the ever-changing cycle of birth and rebirth.  But the field of existence that I know has no limits and therefore there must only be it.  Everything I think I am, any relationship I think I have to the phenomenal world including the phenomenal word can only be eternal infinite existence.

non dual

There are always two things: one real, and one imaginary.  Which is a complicated way of saying there is only one thing.  But to learn what reality is we must first distinguish what it is not.  Constantly throughout the day we experience imaginary objects and react to them.  I am sitting here enjoying a cup of tea watching the dog chase her tail, when really nothing is going on.

There is a silence that is beyond sound, or a light that is beyond the experience of vision.  Reality is what is known after the complete negation of the physical manifest universe.  It is a void, yet it is beyond the idea of emptiness.  It is a void but this void is self.

It has been contended that there is nothing to learn nor any method to follow in order to gain the knowledge of absolute truth.  But I disagree.  Even though the method of negation must be negated itself, it is a necessary tool for the imaginary individual to realize its true nature of one, all pervasive self.  It is not an intellectual practice, but an experiential process of letting go of anything we think is important or is going to make us happy.

 

ignorance

Ignorance is simply a belief in something that is otherwise so.  For instance, if I believe this tablecloth is red, when in fact it is yellow, I would be ignorant of its true color.  Likewise ignorance is the belief that any object is separate from the absolute self.

Because in reality there are no separate objects, there are no objects.  So therefore there cannot be any false knowledge either.  For, there cannot be any knowledge of something that does not exist.