Bohr, Heisenberg and Pauli: The Copenhagen Interpretation
“The Self is not in any object, nor is any object in the Self which is infinite and signless. Hence I am free from attachment and desire. Serene in this (knowledge) alone I abide
Natma bhavesu no bhavastatranate niranjane
Ityasakto sprhah santa etadevahamasthitah”
-Ashtavakra Gita
Anatomizing the Self, the Witness or the Observer
Through the cloud consciousness of the primordial mind
Hui-neng’s no mind of the samadhi state is beyond space-time construct
Wu-hsin and Wu-nien are the neural correlates of wu-wei or non-doing in Gita
However, there are computations, consciousness is beyond comprehensibility
Flowers Near Tashiding Monastery, Sikkim
The silent flower
With all its variegated beauty is the unborn in the unborn
That is the expression of transcendental bliss
It abides in itself beyond the duality of relativism
Therefore we contend to non-origination and the primordial singleness of the self (ajativada)
Brahman is Brahman
It is unborn and all-pervading
It confers supreme peace and tranquility
Sivam Santam
With manifestation (only apparent), comes Dependent Origination or Relativistic Existence
There is doer or the ego – there is duality and opacity and obdurateness
In the luminosity of the Self – there is transparent interpenetration
Ashtavakra talks about non-origination of the Self
It does not spring from anything!
Yajnavalkya in Brihadarankya Upanishad says:
“When born, he is not born again;
who indeed can generate him?”
he is always unborn (aja) and non-dual (advaya)
The self is all that exists (sarvam atma) – knowing this be happy!
This is same as Vasudevah sarvam of Bhagavadgita (vii, 19)
Japanese Buddhist Monastery, Kolkata
When the Zen Master asks questions like
Who Am I? Where Am I? Whence Do I Come?
Whither DO I Go? – an inquiry into the Self-Nature (Svabhava) of Reality
The questions are pointed in such way so that it corresponds to self-abidance
which is indeed the meaning of WELLBEING OR SWASTHYA or TRUE HAPPINESS
Where do the Bodhisattvas reside? Where is the Self abiding?
In the Eternal Now which is the present moment, quiescent and illuminating
The Self abides in its own abode continuously radiating maha-karuna from the center
The past and the future signals have interpenetrated each other (from their respective de-sitter event horizons ) and have become the present moment which too keeps on changing
In this eternal present the Buddha or the Awakened One has fixed his abode which is no abode (the mind has no abode)
Flowing Mountain Stream, Yuksom, Sikkim
This is the universe of luminosity where space time is obliterated
This scene of complete transcendental interpenetration is called
The Entering into the Dharmadhatu (dharmadhatu pravesa)
How did you get in?
Through the Gates of Copenhagen by the bliss of the Witness!
Leaving behind nothing – I jump into the ocean of existence.
-J
