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 ?


 

 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 !

 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)

 The journey is the destination 

Therefore the ticket price is the integral of infinite sub journeys to each point in the journey, limit tending to zero and all that, yknow, and thanks to Zeno, we'll never arrive. Therefore, to arrive wt a destination is to never have travelled....

1 . god is infinite.

2. infinity contains the back of your head

3. you cannot see the back of your head

 hence, you can only know infinity minus the back of your head, which is mathematically, still infinity

therefore, when you do transcend, you can leave the back of your head behind

corollary : the back of your head is irrelevant

lemma : a person or conscious entity, when made entirely of backs of human heads, cannot achieve enlightenment

 buddhist sankaras are but yoga's samksaras

ability to compartmentalise mind space, and work in that mind space is a hard skill, especially if the compartment is to survive environment changes , like , beyond a room or office ... once this ability develops, the ability to de-compartmentalise gains importance ...

buddhism is therapy disguised as a religion ?

if doctors sold health, they would test insulin levels, but since they sell only cures, they test for sugar levels, something that justifies a prescribing

 oh no

the size of the playlist decides the amount of whisky that goes in ....

 i terribly regret the vast range of music i sampled in college, the sheer number of bands i am not unfamiliar with....

whisky me is such an awesome guy ... who'd have thought ...

in whisky veritas

i'm 16 again, letting the sounds of a new album flow in into my head.... what you'd call 'vibin'...

 What is the smallest thing that knows anything ? Everything knows something, like, even a table k ows where a plate is kept on it, and pushes it up...

What is the smallest thing that kmows it knows ...?

 Power comes from working at atleast  one level below that of the reality in front of us. 

Creativity, then, is misleading. A creative is just one who has more admin rights than you