not this, not this
ancient neti neti teaching
negating transience as unreal
all this, all this
for where is God not
exclaimed the sagacious monk
25-December-2022
Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
19.2
“Where is meditation, pleasure, prosperity
or discrimination? Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self”
~~~
Verse revisited on 23-March-2022
To know what is, discern what is not
Thus neti-neti, not this, not this, ephemeral
We look for truth, making singular, seeming plural
Yet senses externalised, everything’s sized in thought slot
The cosmic egg, womb of existence, lies within as Hiranyagarbha
Splitting, one becomes two, the two many, in-form polarity
Separation creates a yearning for union by parity
Samadhi resolves paradox of life’s enigma
There then thus is no doer meditating
All that is, is but Spanda or vibration in motion
Truth’s here now known in the void of breath cessation
Vibrant, all encompassing, luminous consciousness, scintillating
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Notes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiranyagarbha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi
Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
What is this concept of neti neti
Methinks, it is the ostrich syndrome
We are here, so why negate mind body
Here and now, in our heart, is Gods kingdom
Let us be distracted not by scriptures
Resting thought forms, let us go to the roots
By feeling, recognising soul stature
Following scent of love and Krishna’s flute
Oh hermit! Mind body is a springboard
The athletes step back, before the pole vault
Know, there is no chasm, which we cannot ford
Head-heart aligned, a potent catapult
Accepting what is as is, we begin
Feeling within, throb of bliss ignition
13-January-2021
Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Neti neti, not this, not this! Negating illusions ephemeral, searching for the eternal, that that neither comes nor goes, the jigsaw puzzle becomes complete upon recognising that the entity searching, in as a separate identity must first vaporise! That that remains, as presence unstained, is That!
Where be the centre
of our formless consciousness?
Throb of bliss beckons!
21-October-2020
Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
"Don’t try to drag me into Oz
It will never work
I’ll kill the Munchkins and the witch
I swear I’ll go berserk"
--From "Malice In Wonderland" by Joyce Rugg
The scandal behind us,
We look to break through
To a new dimension.
The mind folds inward
leaving creases.
The mind lives inside the the brain—
A large surface if all spread out.
Neurons are agitated;
Glitches occur.
Events spew forth like comets,
And the mind reels.
Mistakes are made like pudding.
Upon a moment’s notice
Some file is missing.
Something in the wiring has
shorted out.
Evil come, evil go.
Evil marches to and fro.
*In Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta, neti neti is a Sanskrit expression which means "not this, not this", or "neither this, nor that" It is found in the Upanishads and the Avadhuta Gita and constitutes an analytical meditation helping a person to understand the nature of Brahman by first understanding what is not Brahman. --Wikipedia
Categories:
neti, evil, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse
The question of all questions- "I",
why I got born? and what if I die?
these eyes- doorway to which world unknown?
where was I? where am I?
and where will I go?
here or there?
there or here?
Nowhere or everywhere?
will I not know about- is the "END" end?
and perish saying neti-neti again.....
Categories:
neti, god,
Form: I do not know?