Kubernetes Ops, Linux/FOSS, Cloud Infra enthusiast. Personally, researcher of my own mind listening from everyone & anything. Advaita focus. Tweets=note2myself.
Core pointers of #Advaita: I would like to document the core pointers I come across and keep adding to this tweet. One of them might even become a book title.
The only Truly worthwhile Journey…is that of Self-Realization.
For if You do not Realize who You are, then how can You ever think to have done anything worthwhile?
Internal before external.
The greatest gift to the world- is the dissolution of One’s own delusion.
Be Aware…
Everything that appears & disappears in one's mind is transient, just-like-dreams unreal.
Holding onto them to presist & not accepting what is - is the reason for suffering.
Because what is represented can never be real. Map is not the territory.
Mind needs 2 remember this.
Nobody can KNOW anything.
Everybody can represent, imagine, recall, recognize &model anything in their mind, including the first person i, to interact 4socialSurvival. Real&Represented always separate.
The only thing anybody can KNOW is that they exist. AWARE of. CONSCIOUS of.
Why God cannot be known by mind? Because mind can only represent, recognize preception in a specific space and time. How can the wholeness be in one specific space and time? (if so who is minding other/s). It is "The Whole" / "The only ONE /REAL in which everything is contained".
God cannot be known by the mind.
Aha, so where is your God now?
But when the mind is in silence, in stillness, not busy with any internal or external activity, then in that unnameable container space, there is a sliver of chance to intuit/see that timeless all pervading light.
Mind should always be handled like one is handling a knife - with good intention, with skill, with knack, with grace - always careful & always keeping in mind that it is just a tool-servent2be used&kept aside when not needed. One sec of carelessness will lead2lifelong repentance.
The word mind is the most unhelpful word in the whole of English language & the reason for a small % of stress in the world.
The world will be better if it is replaced with the Sanskrit word shushma sharira, like the word "catamaran" from the Tamil word, kattumaram (கட்டுமரம்).
The desire to see God is the most dangerous for the individual personality, as seeing God is being God, the wholeness, where one has to dissolve the individual personality.
As the wholeness only made this separate individuality, it is better2keep fighting whatever is thrown at.
Human's primary job is to see with wonder anything &everything, including the size of the galaxies &the universe.
Instead, we are fighting with each other &suffering for &with illusory personal images. Shame. Turn in 4the treasure &dont fall4the false promise of fraudulent mind.
Relaxation is rest from the mental activity.
Staying away from the mind.
Staying in nature & meditation (away from stuff made by human thought or hands) are2quick&easy way to (un)do that.
Everytime else is running away from thoughts, using thoughts into stuff made by thoughts.
Why one cannot find the i?
Because i is a social fiction created, hammered& convinced without questioning, by the current generation of humans & accepted and believed by the individual mind.
i is a social convenience. Mental imagery. No physical reality. Reason for suffering.
Private 8 billion interconnected worlds. One comparitively-real Mother Earth.
Why can't these 8b representational worlds accept their fact of thought-made-self, get together&change the course of 10,000 years of destruction to the only life giving Mother Earth?
Leave no trace.
#kubecon NA 2023 is tomorrow but my purpose of coming to kubecon is already accomplished!. Got the #selfie & personal advise/inspiration from @kelseyhightower!