Nonduality and Mind-Only

February 20, 2023

[This is a raw unedited excerpt from my forthcoming book on nonduality and Mind-Only metaphysics. I just started the book and It won't be finished/published until 2024.]


What is Nonduality?


From my perspective, and that of the foremost spiritual traditions, there is only one true version of nonduality—that of a single uncreated, unmanifest Mind, or Being-Consciousness, or Divine Existent, as the Source, Substance, Condition, and Reality of reality (meaning the totality of manifest existents). In other words, nonduality as I, and the foremost spiritual traditions, define it, means Mind-Only, which means that this One Mind, or Being-Consciousness, has become everything; and yet, paradoxically, because it is forever unmanifest, and thus outside time and space, it has not become anything.


What can you say about this Mind?


Because Mind (or Consciousness), the single Reality, transcendentally (or timelessly and spacelessly), alone exists, it is Self-Existing as Supreme (or Divine) Being; hence, it isn’t just Consciousness, but Being-Consciousness. Moreover, because Mind is Divine (or Di-“vine”), it consists not only of the “vine” of Consciousness (or Awareness), but also the “vine” of Energy (or Spirit); hence, it isn’t just Being-Consciousness, but Being-Consciousness-Energy.… Read the full article

My Plans for 2023-2024

December 20, 2022
My original plan for 2023 was to complete my “Buddhist Trilogy” by writing “Mindfulness for Smarties” (a Pali Buddhism and meditation text), but after devoting so much time and energy to “Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties,” Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind,” and “Radical Dzogchen,” all published in 2023, I realized that I needed a break from writing on Buddhism.

With this in mind, I’ve already started work on my next book “Nonduality and Mind-Only through the Prism of Reality,” which I will then follow with a ground-breaking book on Kabbalah (wherein I get to exercise my expertise in astro-occultism). After completing these two books, I’ll then write “Mindfulness for Smarties.”

I’ve watched videos and read books by many authors who write on nonduality, including Rupert Spira, Jay Michaelson, David Loy, Marshall Davis, Donald Hoffman, and uber-popular Bernardo Kastrup. My view is that none of these guys are in my league as a spiritual exegete and thinker, so I decided to write a book on the subject that considers it in an esoteric context beyond their ken. If all goes well, I’ll complete this book in 2023, and publish it along with “The Power of Now Meditation Guide,” which I completed a couple of years ago, but haven’t got around to preparing for publication.… Read the full article

“Radical Dzogchen” is Now Available

November 28, 2022
My latest book “Radical Dzogchen: The Direct Way to En-Light-enment,” a seminal, iconoclastic, sure-to-be-controversial text, has just been published and is now available in Kindle and paperback at Amazon, and from other book sellers. Below are the Contents and the Preface of the book.

CONTENTS 

Notes to the Reader 

Chapter One: Dzogchen (The Great Perfection) 

Chapter Two: The Trikaya (the Triadic “Structure” of Reality) 

Chapter Three: Rigpa (Primal Presence) 

Chapter Four: Trekcho (Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism) 

Chapter Five: Togal Part 1 (Conducting the Clear-Light Continuum) 

Chapter Six: Togal, Part 2 (The Perversion of Dzogchen) 

Chapter Seven: Electrical Dzogchen: Plugged in Presence 

Chapter Eight: Christian Dzogchen: The Mystical Eucharist 

Chapter Nine: Daist Dzogchen: Radical Understanding 

Chapter Ten: Dzogchen Discursion 

Chapter Eleven: Dzogchen Literature: A Cognizant Overview 

PREFACE 

Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, a.k.a. Atiyoga, has, since its inception, been proclaimed by Tibetan gurus to be the pinnacle of all spiritual paths, the most direct way for a yogi to achieve Buddhahood.… Read the full article

“Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind” Now Available in Paperback and Kindle at Amazon

June 23, 2022
Introduction

In 2018, I decided that my next writing project would be a Buddhist “trilogy” consisting of texts on Dzogchen, Zen, and Pali Buddhism. I was motivated to undertake this project because I believe that Buddhism is in need of an “upgrade.” As I see it, there isn’t a single living Buddhism teacher-writer who has “cracked the code” and is thus able to properly elaborate on Buddhadharma, Consciousness, and Awakening. Given my view of the “fallen state” of Buddhism and my belief in my ability to “resurrect” it, I began my project.I started my “trilogy” with the Dzogchen text, but at the point I was half-done writing it, a series of epiphanies convinced me to put it aside and instead focus on this Zen text. The gist of my epiphanies was that Zen, principally due to the influence of Madhyamaka, epitomizes the downfall of Buddhadharma; therefore, it deserved my first attention. Further, because Zen disses the thinking mind, I realized that it was most important from the outset of my project to counter its anti-mind ideology; hence the title Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind.… Read the full article

“Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” Is Now Available

January 11, 2022
My new book “Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” is now available in Kindle at Amazon for the temporarily low price of just $4.99. In case you don’t know, you don’t need an Amazon Kindle reader to read Kindle books; you can download the free app. from Amazon and read them on other devices. (I read them on my laptop and desktop.) At some point, I may do a paperback version, but that won’t be for at least a few months.

I began the formatting process on “Buddhist Book Reviews for Smarties” 3-plus months ago, and I never expected it to drag on for this long, which it did for various reasons. The formatting for “Zen Mind, Thinker’s Mind” will begin next week, and if all goes well, it will be published next month. It will be available in both Kindle and paperback.… Read the full article

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