Transpersonal Philosophy

  Following Patanjali we have said that Yoga is samadhi. And that the Yoga of Knowledge, the Ñana (Gnana or Jnana) Yoga, would then be “being the Consciousness of Samadhi”, which is a Consciousness of Bliss (Chidananda Rupa). Let's focus our Buddhi mind on samadhi for a moment. Sankaracharia, one of the great teachers of Hindu Advaita Vedanta, speaks of two types of samadhi: savikalpa (subject to differentiation) and nirvikalpa (not subject to differentiation). Savikalpa samadhi is the conscious state of “mind of Bliss” in which the Subject and the objects of knowledge maintain their own identity and difference from one another. With an example. Suppose you contemplate a rose and its beauty intoxicates you so much that your Soul transforms its configuration and you enter a state of absorption in Beauty. In this state of samadhi, you are intermingled with the rose, but the different identities of the rose and you are maintained. As Sankaracharia says, in this stat...

  Siguiendo a Patanjali hemos dicho que Yoga es samadhi. Y que el Yoga del Conocimiento, el Ñana Yoga, sería entonces “estar siendo la Conciencia de Samadhi”, que es una Conciencia de Bienaventuranza (Chidananda Rupa). Enfoquemos nuestra mente Buddhi sobre el samadhi por un instante. Sankaracharia, uno de los grandes maestros del Advaita Vedanta hindú, habla de dos tipos de samadhi: savikalpa (sujeto a diferenciación) y nirvikalpa (no sujeto a diferenciación). Savikalpa samadhi es el estado anímico consciente de Bienaventuranza en el que el Sujeto y los objetos de conocimiento mantienen identidad propia y diferencia de unos con respecto a otros. Con un ejemplo. Supongamos que contemplas una rosa y te embriaga tanto su belleza que tu Alma transforma su configuración y entras en un estado de absorción en la Belleza. En este estado de samadhi, tú te encuentras entremezclada con la rosa, pero se mantienen las identidades diferentes de la rosa y tú. Como dice Sankar...

  M usic is not just sound, in fact, sound is not really the foundation of music . Can a ballerina dance without sound? Of course, and it's still a musical experience. According to Leibniz , music is a n experience of the soul in relation to the order of time, performed by counting, albeit an unconscious counting process . Can we count unconsciously? Leibniz seems to suggest that arithmetic, or more precisely, the action of counting natural numbers, i s a fundamental mental process that occur s out of the focus of our attention. Therefore, unconscious counting , or better, our experience of the unfolding of order and harmony in the course of time, would be a full liminal action. It is an action in the limit, sub-limen action, and sublime action. It happens in the threshold of conscious formation, and therefore with a transforming potential for individual identity as no other art form has. There is a basic intuition of the experience of time that music and mat...

  What you had to hear you have already heard many times: you yourself are what you lack, you are That. You come to this Blog and other similar places seeking understanding, in the same way you seek sustenance or shelter. You are searching, because existence is Encounter and you have to say your verse. If you could see yourself with my eyes you would see that you are looking for the glasses you are wearing. Awakening is extraordinarily simple, in the long run it is inevitable: the Tripartite Soul falls in love with Beauty and surrenders. Your need for Ananda makes you seek infinite ecstasy. That ecstasy has already occurred, and continues to occur, it will not stop occurring, it is called the Universe. The Great Samadhi is not the dissolution of that form of the Volitive Soul which we call the body. Maha Samadhi is the continuity of Life and Death in a single ecstasy, exactly what is happening to you at this moment, this feeling of yours that you insist on veiling in y...

  Lo que tenías que escuchar ya lo has escuchado cientos de veces: tú mismo eres lo que te falta, tú eres Eso. Vienes a este Blog y a otros lugares parecidos buscando entendimiento, de la misma manera que buscas sustento o cobijo. Eres búsqueda, pues la existencia es Encuentro y a ti te corresponde decir tu verso. Si pudieras verte con mis ojos verías que buscas las gafas que llevas puestas. Despertar es extraordinariamente sencillo, a la larga es inevitable: el Alma Tripartita se enamora de la Belleza y se entrega. Tu necesidad de Ananda te hace buscar un éxtasis infinito. Ese éxtasis ya ha ocurrido, y sigue ocurriendo, no parará de ocurrir, se llama Universo. El Gran Samadhi no es la disolución de esa forma del Alma Volitiva que llamamos cuerpo. Maha Samadhi es la continuidad de la Vida y la Muerte en un único éxtasis, exactamente lo que te está pasando en este instante, este sentir tuyo que que te empeñas en velar en tu juego de máscaras. Deja caer la máscara, simpl...

  The understanding of the “I Am”, of Atman, becomes a farce when we do it from one of our masks, no matter how spiritual we believe that such mask is. Farce is the grotesque grimace of a Rakshasa (a hostile being of the subtle (sub-limen) vital plane that interferes in the planes of everyday experience) when someone proclaims himself/herself to be a god, or a victim of the gods, that is, when we raise any perverse psychological limitation to the rank of a power in the Universal Game. To understand “I Am” is to be it. There are two paths: that of the gnani and that of the bhakta . The path of the gnani is the path of impersonal knowledge: direct, fast, difficult due to its extraordinary simplicity, simple if we allow ourselves to be invaded by the omnipresence of Sat and Chit . It is a knowledge not of objects, but of the Subject. We know the knower by being the knower. The path of bhakta is that of unconditional Love, surrender to the Beloved. It can be relativel...

  El entendimiento del “Yo Soy”, de Atman se convierte en una farsa cuando lo hacemos desde una máscara propia, por muy espiritual que creamos que tal máscara es. La farsa es la grotesca mueca de un Rakshasa (un ser hostil del plano vital sutil (sublimen) que interfiere en los planos de la experiencia cotidiana) cuando alguien se autoproclama un dios, o una víctima de los dioses, es decir, cuando elevamos cualquier limitación perversa psicológica al rango de una fuerza de poder en el Juego Universal. Entender “Yo Soy” es serlo. Hay dos vías: la del gnani y la del bhakta. La vía del gnani es la vía del conocimiento impersonal: directa, rápida, difícil por su extraordinaria simpleza, sencilla si nos dejamos invadir por la omnipresencia de Sat y de Chit . Es un conocimiento no de objetos, sino del Sujeto. Conocemos al conocedor siendo el conocedor. La vía del bhakta es la del Amor incondicional, la rendición ante el Ser Amado. Puede ser relativamente rápida, es directa, ...

  The bard is blind for having seen the Goddess of Beauty bathe naked. Many are the names of Tiresias. The Argentine bard Jorge Luis Borges had a vision in light of his intimate blindness. Legend has it that when the battle of Contarf ended, that feast of crows in which the Norwegians were defeated, the Great King of Ireland quickly called his court poet, repeating what the kings of Mycenae once did. He asked him to compose a song of victory and greatness, as if both things went together, as if war could make someone great. He gave him a year to compose it and some gold, some say a rare ring on which was inscribed the name of an old dragon. When the year completed its journey, the poet presented an extensive panegyric full of great literary figures, a dazzling manifesto in which the sword was called “oar of battle” and “helm of justice.” He recited it with the confidence of someone who masters his craft, without looking at the manuscript and with a hypnot...

 This poem is part of the Navaho Blessing ceremony. It perfectly expresses the psychological spontaneity of the people who live in the Anima Mundi. In these verses I see the fitra that the Sufis speak of, the Original Nature of the Human Soul, seductive, powerful and delicate, like the Presence of newborns.   In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me. I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me. I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me. I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful. In beauty all day long may I walk. Through the returning seasons, may I walk. On the trail marked with pollen ma...