There is only one treasure, and that is the self, from/to which all joys flow
Saturday, May 16, 2026
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
was reading osborne's book on the maharishi's teachings. there's a dialogue with a jesuit , who asks questions like 'i am finite, god is infinite.... how can i know god' , and then it hit where I had heard this before...
DAVID What was your idea Elijah? Beat. ELIJAH(soft) If there is someone like me in the world, and I'm at one end of the spectrum... Couldn't there be someone the opposite of me, at the other end? (beat) A person who can't be hurt like the rest of us. A kind of person they were talking about in those stories. Elijah points at the framed comic sketches. ELIJAH(soft) A person they believed was put here to protect the rest of us. Guard us.
and then I remembered what this sounded like ... this is actually just a rehash of Descartes' argument for the existence of God ...so it looks like armies have been , since forever, carrying these arguments in their arsenal, persuading millions into membership by the simple device of looking decent, claiming to be holy, and presenting logical arguments ....
can you spot the fallacy in this ? would you be immune ?
Thursday, May 07, 2026
the human is like the hand
what he grasps he becomes
the hand that can let go
can grasp anything
become anything
it chooses
pro-tip while meditating - since one needs to suppress the fault-finding mind, we just need to remember when we do meditation wrong, for eg, no zafu, no mudra, no 10 min - so that it automatically becomes a full valid session !
Wednesday, May 06, 2026
If you jump up fast enough and turn around, would you be able to see yourself in the past moment ? Youll have to whip faster than the speed of light though ... and become momentsrily infinitely heavy so that all yomama jokes suddenly become about you....
I think of light (or the speed of it ) as a primal consciousness; speeding it up causes time to slow down, ask any meditator ....
Meditation doesnt reverse ageing, a meditator has moved less through time, hence has aged less...
Similarly i think of the Huayen jewel net as where each jewel is a shard of consciousness reflecting imperfectly.... as they 'purify' they becme clearer and clearer , and eventually turn invisible then insubstantial, dissolving into the substrate which turns out to be ..... more consciousness itself until everything collapses into a single point of itness.the world as we know it ,not being percieved anymore, disappears snap, like an old.memory...
Now reading intro to mahamudra (tibetan)