2017 (#45 B) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:47 , MUNDAKA UPANISHAD , JOHN 14:24 , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , JUNG , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:17 , JOHN 14:25-27 (“ARCHIVABLE MEANING IS ALSO AND IN ADVANCE CODETERMINED BY THE STRUCTURE THAT ARCHIVES. IT BEGINS WITH THE PRINTER. WHOEVER BELONGS TO GOD HEARS WHAT GOD SAYS. MAY WE, ALL OUR LIFE, CARRY OUT HIS WILL. THESE WORDS YOU HEAR ARE NOT MY OWN; THEY BELONG TO THE FATHER WHO SENT ME. THE PRARABDHA [PREDESTINED KARMA] WHICH CREATED THE BODY WILL MAKE IT GO THROUGH WHATEVER ACTIVITIES IT WAS MEANT FOR. BUT THE JNANI GOES THROUGH ALL THESE ACTIVITIES WITHOUT THE NOTION THAT HE IS THE DOER OF THEM. THE MIND MUST SING THE ‘I AM’ WITHOUT WORDS. LET ME PERSIST IN DIVINE ASTONISHMENT, SO THAT I AM READY TO BEHOLD YOUR WONDERS. THOSE WHOSE INTELLECT IS FIXED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, WHO ARE WHOLLY ABSORBED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, WITH FIRM FAITH IN HIM AS THE SUPREME GOAL, SUCH PERSONS QUICKLY REACH THE STATE FROM WHICH THERE IS NO RETURN, THEIR FEARS HAVING BEEN DISPELLED BY THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE. ALL THIS I HAVE SPOKEN WHILE STILL WITH YOU. BUT THE ADVOCATE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME, WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS AND WILL REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID TO YOU. PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; MY PEACE I GIVE YOU. I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES. DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND DO NOT BE AFRAID.”)

ARCHIVABLE MEANING IS ALSO AND IN ADVANCE CODETERMINED BY THE STRUCTURE THAT ARCHIVES. IT BEGINS WITH THE PRINTER.

WHOEVER BELONGS TO GOD HEARS WHAT GOD SAYS.

MAY WE, ALL OUR LIFE, CARRY OUT HIS WILL.

THESE WORDS YOU HEAR ARE NOT MY OWN; THEY BELONG TO THE FATHER WHO SENT ME.

THE PRARABDHA [PREDESTINED KARMA] WHICH CREATED THE BODY WILL MAKE IT GO THROUGH WHATEVER ACTIVITIES IT WAS MEANT FOR. BUT THE JNANI GOES THROUGH ALL THESE ACTIVITIES WITHOUT THE NOTION THAT HE IS THE DOER OF THEM.

THE MIND MUST SING THE ‘I AM’ WITHOUT WORDS.

LET ME PERSIST IN DIVINE ASTONISHMENT, SO THAT I AM READY TO BEHOLD YOUR WONDERS.

THOSE WHOSE INTELLECT IS FIXED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, WHO ARE WHOLLY ABSORBED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, WITH FIRM FAITH IN HIM AS THE SUPREME GOAL, SUCH PERSONS QUICKLY REACH THE STATE FROM WHICH THERE IS NO RETURN, THEIR FEARS HAVING BEEN DISPELLED BY THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE.

ALL THIS I HAVE SPOKEN WHILE STILL WITH YOU. BUT THE ADVOCATE, THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN MY NAME, WILL TEACH YOU ALL THINGS AND WILL REMIND YOU OF EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID TO YOU. PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; MY PEACE I GIVE YOU. I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES. DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND DO NOT BE AFRAID.

2017 (#46) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:50 , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:18 , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , MANDAKA UPANISHAD , TAO TE CHING , JOHN 14:28-31 (“TO PROTECT MARKS FROM BEING ERASED, SO AS THUS TO ENSURE SALVATION AND INDEMNITY, TO STOCK, TO ACCUMULATE, AND, IN WHAT IS AT ONCE THE SAME THING AND SOMETHING ELSE, TO MAKE THE SENTENCE THUS AVAILABLE FOR PRINTING AND FOR REPRINTING, FOR REPRODUCTION? I’M NOT TRYING TO BRING GLORY TO MYSELF. SOME POWER ACTS THROUGH HIS BODY AND USES HIS BODY TO GET THE WORK DONE. IN THE STATE OF JNANA, THE JNANI SEES NOTHING SEPARATE FROM THE ATMAN/SELF. HE SEES THESE DIFFERENCES AS BUT APPEARANCES, HE SEES THEM AS NOT SEPARATE FROM THE TRUE, THE REAL, WITH WHICH HE IS ONE. IT IS NOT THE WORDS THAT MATTER, BUT THE POWER BEHIND THEM. THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EVERLASTING; ‘OF THAT WHICH HAS NEITHER TANGIBILITY, NOR ANTECEDENT, COLOUR, EYES, EARS, HANDS, FEET; OF THAT WHICH IS PREVALENT EVERYWHERE, IMMEASURABLY MINUTE, SELFEVIDENT, INDESTRUCTIBLE, ALWAYS ALIVE; OF THAT WHICH THE WISE NAME THE SOURCE. THE GREAT TAO FLOWS EVERYWHERE. ALL THINGS ARE BORN FROM IT IT NOURISHES INFINITE WORLDS, YET IT DOESN’T HOLD ON TO THEM. COME NOW; LET US LEAVE.”)

TO PROTECT MARKS FROM BEING ERASED, SO AS THUS TO ENSURE SALVATION AND INDEMNITY, TO STOCK, TO ACCUMULATE, AND, IN WHAT IS AT ONCE THE SAME THING AND SOMETHING ELSE, TO MAKE THE SENTENCE THUS AVAILABLE FOR PRINTING AND FOR REPRINTING, FOR REPRODUCTION?

I’M NOT TRYING TO BRING GLORY TO MYSELF.

SOME POWER ACTS THROUGH HIS BODY AND USES HIS BODY TO GET THE WORK DONE. IN THE STATE OF JNANA, THE JNANI SEES NOTHING SEPARATE FROM THE ATMAN/SELF. HE SEES THESE DIFFERENCES AS BUT APPEARANCES, HE SEES THEM AS NOT SEPARATE FROM THE TRUE, THE REAL, WITH WHICH HE IS ONE.

IT IS NOT THE WORDS THAT MATTER, BUT THE POWER BEHIND THEM.

THE HIGHER KNOWLEDGE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EVERLASTING; ‘OF THAT WHICH HAS NEITHER TANGIBILITY, NOR ANTECEDENT, COLOUR, EYES, EARS, HANDS, FEET; OF THAT WHICH IS PREVALENT EVERYWHERE, IMMEASURABLY MINUTE, SELFEVIDENT, INDESTRUCTIBLE, ALWAYS ALIVE; OF THAT WHICH THE WISE NAME THE SOURCE.

THE GREAT TAO FLOWS EVERYWHERE. ALL THINGS ARE BORN FROM IT. IT NOURISHES INFINITE WORLDS, YET IT DOESN’T HOLD ON TO THEM.

COME NOW; LET US LEAVE.

SCRIPTURES 2017 (#47B) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:50 , MANDAKA UPANISHAD , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:18-19 , JUNG , JOHN 15:1-4 , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , DERRIDA , I CHING , JOHN 15:5-8 , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:20 (“THE PRIMARY CONCEPT IS THE ‘I AM’, OUT OF IT ARE CREATED ALL OTHER CONCEPTS.WE ONLY HAVE AN IMPRESSION, AN INSISTENT IMPRESSION THROUGH THE UNSTABLE FEELING OF A SHIFTING FIGURE, OF A SCHEMA, OR OF AN IN-FINITE OR INDEFINITE PROCESS.THE WATERING OF THE WOOD, REPLENISHING, AFTER BECOMING EXHAUSTED, ONE NEEDS REPLENISHING. 5 “I AM THE VINE; YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. IF YOU REMAIN IN ME AND I IN YOU, YOU WILL BEAR MUCH FRUIT; APART FROM ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING. ESTABLISHED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, HAVING A FIRM UNDERSTANDING OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE AND NOT HAMPERED BY FEAR, THEY NEITHER REJOICE IN GETTING SOMETHING PLEASANT NOR GRIEVE ON EXPERIENCING THE UNPLEASANT. I HAVE FULL KNOWLEDGE PRIOR TO BEINGNESS, WHICH IS ETERNAL.”)

THE PRIMARY CONCEPT IS THE ‘I AM’, OUT OF IT ARE CREATED ALL OTHER CONCEPTS.

WE ONLY HAVE AN IMPRESSION, AN INSISTENT IMPRESSION THROUGH THE UNSTABLE FEELING OF A SHIFTING FIGURE, OF A SCHEMA, OR OF AN IN-FINITE OR INDEFINITE PROCESS.

THE WATERING OF THE WOOD, REPLENISHING, AFTER BECOMING EXHAUSTED, ONE NEEDS REPLENISHING.

“I AM THE VINE; YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. IF YOU REMAIN IN ME AND I IN YOU, YOU WILL BEAR MUCH FRUIT; APART FROM ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING.

ESTABLISHED IN GOD/ATMAN/SELF, HAVING A FIRM UNDERSTANDING OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE AND NOT HAMPERED BY FEAR, THEY NEITHER REJOICE IN GETTING SOMETHING PLEASANT NOR GRIEVE ON EXPERIENCING THE UNPLEASANT.

I HAVE FULL KNOWLEDGE PRIOR TO BEINGNESS, WHICH IS ETERNAL.

2017 (#47A) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:50 , MANDAKA UPANISHAD , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:18-19 , JUNG , JOHN 15:1-4 , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , DERRIDA , I CHING , JOHN 15:5-8 , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:20 (“IN THEIR EPISTEMOLOGY, IN THEIR HISTORIOGRAPHY, IN THEIR OPERATIONS AS WELL AS IN THEIR OBJECT, WHAT SHOULD THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVISTS OR HISTORIANS MAKE OF THIS DISTINCTION BETWEEN “REPRESSION” AND “SUPPRESSION”? I’M NOT TRYING TO BRING GLORY TO MYSELF. THERE’S ONE WHO IS SEEKING TO GLORIFY ME, AND HE’S THE JUDGE. ‘HE LOOKS AT ALL THINGS; KNOWS ALL THINGS. ALL THINGS, THEIR NOURISHMENT, THEIR NAMES, THEIR FORMS, ARE FROM HIS WILL, ALL THAT HE HAS WILLED IS RIGHT.’ THE TRULY LEARNED, WITH THE EYES OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE, SEE WITH EQUAL VISION A BRAHMIN, A COW, AN ELEPHANT, A DOG, AND A DOG-EATER. WHEN THE DESERT BEGINS TO BLOOM, IT BRINGS FORTH STRANGE PLANTS. I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER. ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER, BUT JNANA IS NOT A THING TO BE BOUND BY CAUSES AND RESULTS. IT IS BEYOND CAUSALITY ALTOGETHER. IT IS ABIDANCE IN THE ATMAN/SELF. MUKTI (LIBERATION) IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SELF. THERE IS ONLY MUKTI (LIBERATION) AND NOTHING ELSE.”)

IN THEIR EPISTEMOLOGY, IN THEIR HISTORIOGRAPHY, IN THEIR OPERATIONS AS WELL AS IN THEIR OBJECT, WHAT SHOULD THE CLASSICAL ARCHIVISTS OR HISTORIANS MAKE OF THIS DISTINCTION BETWEEN “REPRESSION” AND “SUPPRESSION”?

I’M NOT TRYING TO BRING GLORY TO MYSELF. THERE’S ONE WHO IS SEEKING TO GLORIFY ME, AND HE’S THE JUDGE.

‘HE LOOKS AT ALL THINGS; KNOWS ALL THINGS. ALL THINGS, THEIR NOURISHMENT, THEIR NAMES, THEIR FORMS, ARE FROM HIS WILL, ALL THAT HE HAS WILLED IS RIGHT.’

THE TRULY LEARNED, WITH THE EYES OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE, SEE WITH EQUAL VISION A BRAHMIN, A COW, AN ELEPHANT, A DOG, AND A DOG-EATER.

WHEN THE DESERT BEGINS TO BLOOM, IT BRINGS FORTH STRANGE PLANTS.

I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER.

ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER, BUT JNANA IS NOT A THING TO BE BOUND BY CAUSES AND RESULTS. IT IS BEYOND CAUSALITY ALTOGETHER.

IT IS ABIDANCE IN THE ATMAN/SELF. MUKTI (LIBERATION) IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE SELF. THERE IS ONLY MUKTI (LIBERATION) AND NOTHING ELSE.

2017 (#48) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:54 , JUNG , MUNDAKA UPANISHAD , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:24 , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , JOHN 15:9-17 , DERRIDA (“I CONSIDER IT TO BE THE POSSIBILITY AND THE VERY FUTURE OF THE CONCEPT, TO BE THE VERY CONCEPT OF THE FUTURE, IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AND IF, AS I BELIEVE, THE IDEA OF THE ARCHIVE DEPENDS ON IT. IF I HONOR MYSELF, MY HONOR IS NOTHING. THIS IS THE TRUTH: THE SPARKS, THOUGH OF ONE NATURE WITH THE FIRE, LEAP FROM IT; UNCOUNTED BEINGS LEAP FROM THE EVERLASTING, BUT THESE, MY SON, MERGE INTO IT AGAIN. THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY WITHIN THEMSELVES, ENJOYING THE DELIGHT OF GOD WITHIN. THE DIFFERENCE ‘HE’ AND ‘I’ ARE THE OBSTACLES TO JNANA. ‘THE EVERLASTING IS SHAPELESS, BIRTHLESS, BREATHLESS, MINDLESS, ABOVE EVERYTHING, OUTSIDE EVERYTHING, INSIDE EVERYTHING. IN REALITY NOTHING CAN BE GIVEN AND TAKEN, CALL IT LOGIC, EXPERIENCE. TAKE IT AS YOU LIKE, HERE ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION ARE TRANSCENDED. THE ATMAN IS FORMLESS, NAMES AND FORMS ARE OF THE BODY. CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALSO AN ILLUSION, NON-PERSONAL, NON-VERBAL. I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS, FOR EVERYTHING THAT I LEARNED FROM MY FATHER I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU. YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU SO THAT YOU MIGHT GO AND BEAR FRUIT—FRUIT THAT WILL LAST—AND SO THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK IN MY NAME THE FATHER WILL GIVE YOU. THIS IS MY COMMAND: LOVE EACH OTHER. IN HIS OR HER CULTURE AND DISCIPLINE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, IN PARTICULAR PHILOSOPHY, MEDICINE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MORE PRECISELY HERE, BECAUSE WE ARE SPEAKING OF MEMORY AND OF ARCHIVE, THE HISTORY OF TEXTS AND OF DISCOURSES, POLITICAL HISTORY, LEGAL HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF IDEAS OR OF CULTURE, THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND RELIGION ITSELF …”)

I CONSIDER IT TO BE THE POSSIBILITY AND THE VERY FUTURE OF THE CONCEPT, TO BE THE VERY CONCEPT OF THE FUTURE, IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AND IF, AS I BELIEVE, THE IDEA OF THE ARCHIVE DEPENDS ON IT.

IF I HONOR MYSELF, MY HONOR IS NOTHING.

THIS IS THE TRUTH: THE SPARKS, THOUGH OF ONE NATURE WITH THE FIRE, LEAP FROM IT; UNCOUNTED BEINGS LEAP FROM THE EVERLASTING, BUT THESE, MY SON, MERGE INTO IT AGAIN.

THOSE WHO ARE HAPPY WITHIN THEMSELVES, ENJOYING THE DELIGHT OF GOD WITHIN.

THE DIFFERENCE ‘HE’ AND ‘I’ ARE THE OBSTACLES TO JNANA.

‘THE EVERLASTING IS SHAPELESS, BIRTHLESS, BREATHLESS, MINDLESS, ABOVE EVERYTHING, OUTSIDE EVERYTHING, INSIDE EVERYTHING.

IN REALITY NOTHING CAN BE GIVEN AND TAKEN, CALL IT LOGIC, EXPERIENCE. TAKE IT AS YOU LIKE, HERE ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION ARE TRANSCENDED. THE ATMAN IS FORMLESS, NAMES AND FORMS ARE OF THE BODY. CONSCIOUSNESS IS ALSO AN ILLUSION, NON-PERSONAL, NON-VERBAL.

I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS, FOR EVERYTHING THAT I LEARNED FROM MY FATHER I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU. YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME, BUT I CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU SO THAT YOU MIGHT GO AND BEAR FRUIT—FRUIT THAT WILL LAST—AND SO THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK IN MY NAME THE FATHER WILL GIVE YOU. THIS IS MY COMMAND: LOVE EACH OTHER.

IN HIS OR HER CULTURE AND DISCIPLINE, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, IN PARTICULAR PHILOSOPHY, MEDICINE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MORE PRECISELY HERE, BECAUSE WE ARE SPEAKING OF MEMORY AND OF ARCHIVE, THE HISTORY OF TEXTS AND OF DISCOURSES, POLITICAL HISTORY, LEGAL HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF IDEAS OR OF CULTURE, THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND RELIGION ITSELF …

2017 (#49) : DERRIDA , JOHN 8:58 , DERRIDA , MUNDAKA UPANISHAD , JUNG , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , JOHN 15:26-27 , DERRIDA (“BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS , I AM. AND THE WORD AND THE NOTION OF THE ARCHIVE SEEM AT FIRST, ADMITTEDLY, TO POINT TOWARD THE PAST, TO REFER TO THE SIGNS OF CONSIGNED MEMORY, TO RECALL FAITHFULNESS TO TRADITION. AS MUCH AS AND MORE THAN A THING OF THE PAST, BEFORE SUCH A THING, THE ARCHIVE SHOULD CALL INTO QUESTION THE COMING OF THE FUTURE. ‘MY SON! THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD, THAT IS NOT GOD, HE IS ACTION, PURITY; EVERLASTING SPIRIT. LIFE DOES NOT COME FROM EVENTS, BUT FROM US. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE HAS ALREADY BEEN. THEREFORE WHOEVER CONSIDERS THE EVENT FROM OUTSIDE ALWAYS SEES ONLY THAT IT ALREADY WAS, AND THAT IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME. BUT WHOEVER LOOKS FROM INSIDE, KNOWS THAT EVERYTHING IS NEW. THE EVENTS THAT HAPPEN ARE ALWAYS THE SAME. BUT THE CREATIVE DEPTHS OF MAN ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME. EVENTS SIGNIFY NOTHING,THEY SIGNIFY ONLY IN US. WE CREATE THE MEANING OF EVENTS. THE MEANING IS AND ALWAYS WAS ARTIFICIAL. WE MAKE IT. YOU MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE ‘I’, PURE IN ITSELF, AND THE ‘I’-THOUGHT. THE LATTER, BEING MERELY A THOUGHT, SEES SUBJECT AND OBJECT, SLEEPS, WAKES UP, EATS AND THINKS, DIES AND IS REBORN. BUT THE PURE ‘I’ IS THE PURE BEING, ETERNAL EXISTENCE, FREE FROM IGNORANCE AND THOUGHT-ILLUSION. IF YOU STAY AS THE ‘I’, YOUR BEING ALONE, WITHOUT THOUGHT, THE ‘I’-THOUGHT WILL DISAPPEAR AND THE DELUSION WILL VANISH FOR EVER. IT NEITHER COMES NOR GOES. IT IS. IT IS A TIMELESS STATE, EVER PRESENT. 26 “WHEN THE ADVOCATE COMES, WHOM I WILL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER—THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO GOES OUT FROM THE FATHER—HE WILL TESTIFY ABOUT ME. AND YOU ALSO MUST TESTIFY, FOR YOU HAVE BEEN WITH ME FROM THE BEGINNING. “THIS CONDENSATION OF HISTORY, OF LANGUAGE, OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA, REMAINS HERE INDISSOCIABLE FROM AN ABSOLUTELY SINGULAR EVENT, AN ABSOLUTELY SINGULAR SIGNATURE, AND THEREFORE ALSO OF A DATE, OF A LANGUAGE, OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INSCRIPTION. IN A MINIMAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRAIT CAN BE GATHERED THE GREATEST POTENTIALITY OF HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, LINGUISTIC, PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE. BEFORE ABRAHAM’S COMING — I AM”)

BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS , I AM.

AND THE WORD AND THE NOTION OF THE ARCHIVE SEEM AT FIRST, ADMITTEDLY, TO POINT TOWARD THE PAST, TO REFER TO THE SIGNS OF CONSIGNED MEMORY, TO RECALL FAITHFULNESS TO TRADITION.

AS MUCH AS AND MORE THAN A THING OF THE PAST, BEFORE SUCH A THING, THE ARCHIVE SHOULD CALL INTO QUESTION THE COMING OF THE FUTURE.

‘MY SON! THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORLD, THAT IS NOT GOD, HE IS ACTION, PURITY; EVERLASTING SPIRIT.

LIFE DOES NOT COME FROM EVENTS, BUT FROM US. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE HAS ALREADY BEEN. THEREFORE WHOEVER CONSIDERS THE EVENT FROM OUTSIDE ALWAYS SEES ONLY THAT IT ALREADY WAS, AND THAT IT IS ALWAYS THE SAME. BUT WHOEVER LOOKS FROM INSIDE, KNOWS THAT EVERYTHING IS NEW. THE EVENTS THAT HAPPEN ARE ALWAYS THE SAME. BUT THE CREATIVE DEPTHS OF MAN ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME. EVENTS SIGNIFY NOTHING,THEY SIGNIFY ONLY IN US. WE CREATE THE MEANING OF EVENTS. THE MEANING IS AND ALWAYS WAS ARTIFICIAL. WE MAKE IT.

YOU MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE ‘I’, PURE IN ITSELF, AND THE ‘I’-THOUGHT. THE LATTER, BEING MERELY A THOUGHT, SEES SUBJECT AND OBJECT, SLEEPS, WAKES UP, EATS AND THINKS, DIES AND IS REBORN. BUT THE PURE ‘I’ IS THE PURE BEING, ETERNAL EXISTENCE, FREE FROM IGNORANCE AND THOUGHT-ILLUSION. IF YOU STAY AS THE ‘I’, YOUR BEING ALONE, WITHOUT THOUGHT, THE ‘I’-THOUGHT WILL DISAPPEAR AND THE DELUSION WILL VANISH FOR EVER.

IT NEITHER COMES NOR GOES. IT IS. IT IS A TIMELESS STATE, EVER PRESENT.

“WHEN THE ADVOCATE COMES, WHOM I WILL SEND TO YOU FROM THE FATHER—THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO GOES OUT FROM THE FATHER—HE WILL TESTIFY ABOUT ME. AND YOU ALSO MUST TESTIFY, FOR YOU HAVE BEEN WITH ME FROM THE BEGINNING.

THIS CONDENSATION OF HISTORY, OF LANGUAGE, OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA, REMAINS HERE INDISSOCIABLE FROM AN ABSOLUTELY SINGULAR EVENT, AN ABSOLUTELY SINGULAR SIGNATURE, AND THEREFORE ALSO OF A DATE, OF A LANGUAGE, OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INSCRIPTION. IN A MINIMAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRAIT CAN BE GATHERED THE GREATEST POTENTIALITY OF HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, LINGUISTIC, PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE.

BEFORE ABRAHAM’S COMING — I AM

2017 (#50) : DERRIDA , JOHN 9:5 , MUNDAKA UPANISHAD , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:26 , JUNG , JOHN 16:1-7 , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ (“THE ARCHIVE: IF WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS WILL HAVE MEANT, WE WILL ONLY KNOW IN THE TIMES TO COME. PERHAPS. NOT TOMORROW BUT IN THE TIMES TO COME, LATER ON OR PERHAPS NEVER. A SPECTRAL MESSIANICITY IS AT WORK IN THE CONCEPT OF THE ARCHIVE , AS LONG AS I AM IN THE WORLD, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. ‘SHINING, YET HIDDEN, SPIRIT LIVES IN THE CAVERN. EVERYTHING THAT SWAYS, BREATHES, OPENS, CLOSES, LIVES IN SPIRIT; BEYOND LEARNING, BEYOND EVERYTHING, BETTER THAN ANYTHING; LIVING, UNLIVING. ATMAN IS REALIZED WITH MRUTA MANAS [DEAD MIND], THAT IS, MIND DEVOID OF THOUGHTS AND TURNED INWARD. THEN THE MIND SEES ITS OWN SOURCE AND BECOMES THAT [THE ATMAN/SELF]. IT IS NOT AS THE SUBJECT PERCEIVING AN OBJECT. LIBERATION FROM MATERIAL EXISTENCE IS BOTH HERE AND HEREAFTER. THE MEANING OF EVENTS IS THE WAY OF SALVATION THAT YOU CREATE. THE MEANING OF EVENTS COMES FROM THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE IN THIS WORLD THAT YOU CREATE. IT IS THE MASTERY OF THIS WORLD AND THE ASSERTION OF YOUR SOUL IN THIS WORLD. THIS MEANING OF EVENTS IS THE SUPREME MEANING, THAT IS NOT IN EVENTS, AND NOT IN THE SOUL, BUT IS THE GOD STANDING BETWEEN EVENTS AND THE SOUL, THE MEDIATOR OF LIFE, THE WAY, THE BRIDGE AND THE GOING ACROSS. BUT VERY TRULY I TELL YOU, IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD THAT I AM GOING AWAY. UNLESS I GO AWAY, THE ADVOCATE WILL NOT COME TO YOU; BUT IF I GO, I WILL SEND HIM TO YOU. SELF-REMEMBRANCE (ATMAN), AWARENESS OF ‘L AM’ RIPENS HIM POWERFULLY AND SPEEDILY. GIVE UP ALL IDEAS ABOUT YOURSELF AND SIMPLY BE.”)

THE ARCHIVE: IF WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THIS WILL HAVE MEANT, WE WILL ONLY KNOW IN THE TIMES TO COME. PERHAPS. NOT TOMORROW BUT IN THE TIMES TO COME, LATER ON OR PERHAPS NEVER. A SPECTRAL MESSIANICITY IS AT WORK IN THE CONCEPT OF THE ARCHIVE

, AS LONG AS I AM IN THE WORLD, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

‘SHINING, YET HIDDEN, SPIRIT LIVES IN THE CAVERN. EVERYTHING THAT SWAYS, BREATHES, OPENS, CLOSES, LIVES IN SPIRIT; BEYOND LEARNING, BEYOND EVERYTHING, BETTER THAN ANYTHING; LIVING, UNLIVING.

ATMAN IS REALIZED WITH MRUTA MANAS [DEAD MIND], THAT IS, MIND DEVOID OF THOUGHTS AND TURNED INWARD. THEN THE MIND SEES ITS OWN SOURCE AND BECOMES THAT [THE ATMAN/SELF]. IT IS NOT AS THE SUBJECT PERCEIVING AN OBJECT.

LIBERATION FROM MATERIAL EXISTENCE IS BOTH HERE AND HEREAFTER.

THE MEANING OF EVENTS IS THE WAY OF SALVATION THAT YOU CREATE. THE MEANING OF EVENTS COMES FROM THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE IN THIS WORLD THAT YOU CREATE. IT IS THE MASTERY OF THIS WORLD AND THE ASSERTION OF YOUR SOUL IN THIS WORLD. THIS MEANING OF EVENTS IS THE SUPREME MEANING, THAT IS NOT IN EVENTS, AND NOT IN THE SOUL, BUT IS THE GOD STANDING BETWEEN EVENTS AND THE SOUL, THE MEDIATOR OF LIFE, THE WAY, THE BRIDGE AND THE GOING ACROSS.

BUT VERY TRULY I TELL YOU, IT IS FOR YOUR GOOD THAT I AM GOING AWAY. UNLESS I GO AWAY, THE ADVOCATE WILL NOT COME TO YOU; BUT IF I GO, I WILL SEND HIM TO YOU.

SELF-REMEMBRANCE (ATMAN), AWARENESS OF ‘I AM’ RIPENS HIM POWERFULLY AND SPEEDILY. GIVE UP ALL IDEAS ABOUT YOURSELF AND SIMPLY BE.

2017 (#51) : DERRIDA , JOHN 9:39 , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:27-28 , DERRIDA , JUNG , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , BHAGAVAD GITA 5:29 , JUNG , JOHN 16:12-15 (“THE CONCEPT OF PLAY, UNDERSTOOD AS THE PLAY OF THE WORLD, IS NO LONGER PLAY· IN THE WORLD. THAT IS, IT IS NO LONGER DETERMINED AND CONTAINED BY SOMETHING, BY THE SPACE THAT WOULD COMPREHEND IT. FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD, THAT THEY THAT SEE NOT MIGHT SEE, AND THAT THEY THAT SEE MIGHT BE MADE BLIND. WITH THE GAZE FIXED ON THE SPACE BETWEEN THE EYE-BROWS, EQUALIZING THE FLOW OF THE INCOMING AND OUTGOING BREATH IN THE NOSTRILS, AND THUS CONTROLLING THE SENSES, MIND, AND INTELLECT, THE SAGE WHO BECOMES FREE FROM DESIRE AND FEAR, ALWAYS LIVES IN FREEDOM. THEN WE SAW HIM COMING HIGH ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS ON A CHARIOT MADE OF THE BONES OF THE DEAD. YOUR WEAKNESS IS DUE TO YOUR CONVICTION THAT YOU WERE BORN INTO THE WORLD. IN REALITY THE WORLD IS EVER RECREATED IN YOU AND BY YOU. SEE EVERYTHING AS EMANATING FROM THE LIGHT WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR OWN BEING. HAVING REALIZED THE ATMAN/SELF AS THE ENJOYER OF ALL SACRIFICES AND AUSTERITIES, THE SUPREME LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS AND THE SELFLESS FRIEND OF ALL LIVING BEINGS, YOU ATTAIN PEACE. ‘THE HIGHEST TRUTH IS ONE AND THE· SAME WITH THE ABSURD.’ HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN; HE WILL SPEAK ONLY WHAT HE HEARS, AND HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS YET TO COME. CLING TO THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS, HOLD ON TO ‘I AM’ AND LET GO ALL ELSE. THIS IS ‘SADHANA’. IN REALIZATION THERE IS NOTHING TO HOLD ON TO AND NOTHING TO FORGET. EVERYTHING IS KNOWN, NOTHING IS REMEMBERED.”)

THE CONCEPT OF PLAY, UNDERSTOOD AS THE PLAY OF THE WORLD, IS NO LONGER PLAY· IN THE WORLD. THAT IS, IT IS NO LONGER DETERMINED AND CONTAINED BY SOMETHING, BY THE SPACE THAT WOULD COMPREHEND IT.

FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD, THAT THEY THAT SEE NOT MIGHT SEE, AND THAT THEY THAT SEE MIGHT BE MADE BLIND.

WITH THE GAZE FIXED ON THE SPACE BETWEEN THE EYE-BROWS, EQUALIZING THE FLOW OF THE INCOMING AND OUTGOING BREATH IN THE NOSTRILS, AND THUS CONTROLLING THE SENSES, MIND, AND INTELLECT, THE SAGE WHO BECOMES FREE FROM DESIRE AND FEAR, ALWAYS LIVES IN FREEDOM.

THEN WE SAW HIM COMING HIGH ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS ON A CHARIOT MADE OF THE BONES OF THE DEAD.

YOUR WEAKNESS IS DUE TO YOUR CONVICTION THAT YOU WERE BORN INTO THE WORLD. IN REALITY THE WORLD IS EVER RECREATED IN YOU AND BY YOU. SEE EVERYTHING AS EMANATING FROM THE LIGHT WHICH IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR OWN BEING.

HAVING REALIZED THE ATMAN/SELF AS THE ENJOYER OF ALL SACRIFICES AND AUSTERITIES, THE SUPREME LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS AND THE SELFLESS FRIEND OF ALL LIVING BEINGS, YOU ATTAIN PEACE.

‘THE HIGHEST TRUTH IS ONE AND THE· SAME WITH THE ABSURD.’

HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN; HE WILL SPEAK ONLY WHAT HE HEARS, AND HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS YET TO COME.

CLING TO THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS, HOLD ON TO ‘I AM’ AND LET GO ALL ELSE. THIS IS ‘SADHANA’. IN REALIZATION THERE IS NOTHING TO HOLD ON TO AND NOTHING TO FORGET. EVERYTHING IS KNOWN, NOTHING IS REMEMBERED.

2017 (#52) : DERRIDA , JOHN 10:7 , DERRIDA , MUNDAKA UPANISHAD , DERRIDA , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , DERRIDA , JUNG , BHAGAVAD GITA 6:4 (“IN VERY SUMMARY TERMS, THEN, THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SET IN MOTION. THE FORT/DA* AT THE CENTER OF “FREUD’S LEGACY” IS ALSO, OF COURSE, A DISCOURSE ON PLAY. I ASSURE YOU THAT I AM THE GATE OF THE SHEEP. IF ONE UNDERSTANDS THE FORT/DA BEYOND WHAT IT SEEMS FREUD INTENDS TO SAY, THEN ONE MAY EXCEED THE LIMITS OF THE GAME TOWARD THE PLAY OF THE WORLD WHERE THE FORT/DA IS NO LONGER SIMPLY THE RELATION OF SUBJECT TO OBJECT. IT IS. INSTEAD, THAT WHICH HAS ABSOLUTE COMMAND OVER ALL EXPERIENCE IN GENERAL. HE KNOWS ALL, KNOWS EVERY PARTICULAR. HIS GLORY PREVAILS ON EARTH, IN HEAVEN, IN HIS OWN SEAT, THE HOLY CITY OF THE HEART. I TELL YOU FOR CERTAIN THAT I AM THE GATE FOR THE SHEEP. THEN ONE REALIZES THAT BASICALLY HE DOES NOT STOP AT ANY SINGLE INTERPRETATION OF THE FORT/DA. TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU THAT I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.YOU HAVE PROJECTED ONTO YOURSELF A WORLD OF YOUR OWN IMAGINATION, BASED ON MEMORIES, ON DESIRES AND FEARS, AND THAT YOU HAVE IMPRISONED YOURSELF IN IT. BREAK THE SPELL AND BE FREE. AMEN, AMEN I SAY TO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP. HE HIMSELF IS DOING FORT/DA WITH HIS OWN INTERPRETATIONS, AND IT NEVER STOPS. I CAN GUARANTEE THIS TRUTH: I AM THE GATE FOR THE SHEEP. STOP ATTRIBUTING NAMES AND SHAPES TO THE ESSENTIALLY NAMELESS AND FORMLESS. SOMETIMES WE ACCOMPLISH OUR GREATEST DEEDS IN DREAMS. WHEN ONE IS NEITHER ATTACHED TO OBJECTS NOR TO ACTIONS, THAT PERSON IS SAID TO BE ELEVATED IN THE WISDOM OF YOGA, FOR HAVING OVERCOME ALL DESIRES FOR THE FRUITS OF ACTIONS.”)

IN VERY SUMMARY TERMS, THEN, THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SET IN MOTION. THE FORT/DA* AT THE CENTER OF “FREUD’S LEGACY” IS ALSO, OF COURSE, A DISCOURSE ON PLAY.

I ASSURE YOU THAT I AM THE GATE OF THE SHEEP. IF ONE UNDERSTANDS THE FORT/DA BEYOND WHAT IT SEEMS FREUD INTENDS TO SAY, THEN ONE MAY EXCEED THE LIMITS OF THE GAME TOWARD THE PLAY OF THE WORLD WHERE THE FORT/DA IS NO LONGER SIMPLY THE RELATION OF SUBJECT TO OBJECT. IT IS. INSTEAD, THAT WHICH HAS ABSOLUTE COMMAND OVER ALL EXPERIENCE IN GENERAL.

HE KNOWS ALL, KNOWS EVERY PARTICULAR. HIS GLORY PREVAILS ON EARTH, IN HEAVEN, IN HIS OWN SEAT, THE HOLY CITY OF THE HEART.

I TELL YOU FOR CERTAIN THAT I AM THE GATE FOR THE SHEEP.

THEN ONE REALIZES THAT BASICALLY HE DOES NOT STOP AT ANY SINGLE INTERPRETATION OF THE FORT/DA.

TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU THAT I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.

YOU HAVE PROJECTED ONTO YOURSELF A WORLD OF YOUR OWN IMAGINATION, BASED ON MEMORIES, ON DESIRES AND FEARS, AND THAT YOU HAVE IMPRISONED YOURSELF IN IT. BREAK THE SPELL AND BE FREE.

AMEN, AMEN I SAY TO YOU, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.

HE HIMSELF IS DOING FORT/DA WITH HIS OWN INTERPRETATIONS, AND IT NEVER STOPS.

I CAN GUARANTEE THIS TRUTH: I AM THE GATE FOR THE SHEEP.

STOP ATTRIBUTING NAMES AND SHAPES TO THE ESSENTIALLY NAMELESS AND FORMLESS.

SOMETIMES WE ACCOMPLISH OUR GREATEST DEEDS IN DREAMS.

WHEN ONE IS NEITHER ATTACHED TO OBJECTS NOR TO ACTIONS, THAT PERSON IS SAID TO BE ELEVATED IN THE WISDOM OF YOGA, FOR HAVING OVERCOME ALL DESIRES FOR THE FRUITS OF ACTIONS.

2017 (#53) : DERRIDA , JOHN 10:9 , SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ , DERRIDA , GENESIS 11:1-9 , DERRIDA , SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI , JOHN 16:16 , BHAGAVAD GITA 6:7 , JOHN 16:17-18 , DERRIDA , JOHN 16:22-24 (“I SHALL PROCEED IN A MANNER THAT SOME WILL FIND APHORISTIC OR INADMISSIBLE, THAT OTHERS WILL ACCEPT AS LAW, AND THAT STILL OTHERS WILL JUDGE TO BE NOT QUITE APHORISTIC ENOUGH. I AM THE DOOR. IF ANYONE ENTERS BY ME, HE WILL BE SAVED AND WILL GO IN AND OUT AND FIND PASTURE. FIRST WE MUST KNOW OURSELVES AS WITNESSES ONLY, DIMENSIONLESS AND TIMELESS CENTRES OF OBSERVATION, AND THEN REALIZE THAT IMMENSE OCEAN OF PURE AWARENESS, WHICH IS BOTH MIND AND MATTER AND BEYOND BOTH. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE PLACE I AM NOW OCCUPYING WILL NOT BE LEFT OUT OF THE EXHIBIT OR WITHDRAWN FROM THE SCENE. ‘COME, LET US GO DOWN AND CONFUSE THEIR LANGUAGE SO THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.’ A DISCOURSE ON LIFE/DEATH MUST OCCUPY A CERTAIN SPACE BETWEEN LOGOS AND GRAMME, ANALOGY AND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS BETWEEN THE DIFFERING SENSES OF PROGRAM AND REPRODUCTION.”)

I SHALL PROCEED IN A MANNER THAT SOME WILL FIND APHORISTIC OR INADMISSIBLE, THAT OTHERS WILL ACCEPT AS LAW, AND THAT STILL OTHERS WILL JUDGE TO BE NOT QUITE APHORISTIC ENOUGH.

I AM THE DOOR. IF ANYONE ENTERS BY ME, HE WILL BE SAVED AND WILL GO IN AND OUT AND FIND PASTURE.

FIRST WE MUST KNOW OURSELVES AS WITNESSES ONLY, DIMENSIONLESS AND TIMELESS CENTRES OF OBSERVATION, AND THEN REALIZE THAT IMMENSE OCEAN OF PURE AWARENESS, WHICH IS BOTH MIND AND MATTER AND BEYOND BOTH.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THE PLACE I AM NOW OCCUPYING WILL NOT BE LEFT OUT OF THE EXHIBIT OR WITHDRAWN FROM THE SCENE.

‘COME, LET US GO DOWN AND CONFUSE THEIR LANGUAGE SO THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.’

A DISCOURSE ON LIFE/DEATH MUST OCCUPY A CERTAIN SPACE BETWEEN LOGOS AND GRAMME, ANALOGY AND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS BETWEEN THE DIFFERING SENSES OF PROGRAM AND REPRODUCTION.

If one then enquires ‘Who am I?’, the mind will turn back to its source [the Self/Atman] and the thought which had risen will also subside. By repeatedly practicing thus, the power of the mind to abide in its source increases.

Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”

The yogis who have conquered the mind rise above the dualities of cold and heat, joy and sorrow, honor and dishonor.

At the root of everything is the feeling ‘I am’. The state of mind ‘there is a world’ is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world,the world needs me.

17 At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

What one calls life-the thing or object of biology and biography-does
not stand face to face with something that would be its opposable ob-ject: death, the thanatological or thanatographical.

Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Experience is a dual state. You cannot talk of reality as an experience. Once this is understood, you will no longer look for being and becoming as separate and opposite.