Triunistic Model of Reality by Marc Leavitt
Triunistic Model of Reality by Marc Leavitt
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Triunistic Model of Reality
What IT Is, Does and Emerges As.
Contents:
Introduction IT
Chapter One IS
Chapter Two DO
Chapter Three AS
Conclusions SO…
Afterword
Proposed Further Reading
outward world, but it is also the study of the very space or capacity that the
entire world exists in. The study of Reality exists to resolve the paradoxical
Book Two: “Being, While Knowing You Are Not,” is focused on the
day-to-day details of what it is like to live in the world while knowing that
you are not of it. This book also serves as a cautionary tale for all of the
pain, emotional trauma, and otherwise dark feelings that may surface after
surrendering yourself to Mystery. Whereas the first book is focused on my
pursuit of the truth of our existence, the second book is focused on how this
pursuit affected my daily life and my worldly affairs.
Collectively, this Trilogy tells the entire story of our existence, as far
as I have been shown. However, this is not by any stretch of the
imagination, the end of Mystery. Instead, it is merely the beginning. The
beginning of what? That’s the question that your life is the answer to.
IT
Because most of those that you meet day to day mistake themselves
to being only individuals on a dirt rock floating through outer space, it’s
quite understandable why the idea of ‘God’ has been personified over the
centuries. But we are all adults here so I expect that for the rest of this book
when I mention the word ‘God,’ that the reader understands that ‘God’
simply denotes the impersonal Supreme Source of Reality. It is obviously
my contention that the Supreme Source of Reality is ‘Aware Space’ for the
lack of a better word. It’s also obvious that my voice is only one of many
that are pointing out this more matured and ‘self-actualizing’ view of
Reality.
Thus, there will be much talk about “IT,” which refers to the
“Supreme Source” or “Aware Space.” I will talk about what IT is, what IT
does, and what IT manifests as. I prefer to refer to IT as “Aware Space” but
I’m also fine with the word “God” as long as the word is not personified.
The emphasis of book one was that “This is IT.” Meaning that the
entire world that you see and experience is actually the very Supreme
Source you seek. However, IT as well as the world that appears is actually
just misunderstood or misperceived as being otherness or being outside of
you. The operative word in the first book is ‘THIS’ since I want to draw
your attention to the ‘IT’ being ‘THIS’ experience right here and now.
The emphasis of the second book was that “IT is and IT isn’t.”
Meaning that the very nature of IT is paradoxical in nature, at least from a
dualistic perspective. There is nothing you can equivocally say about IT
that isn’t a contradiction on its face. Every truth that can be uttered about IT
is at once true and false depending on the perspective. The operative word
here is ‘AND.’ It is AND it isn’t simultaneously.
Lastly, the emphasis of the third book and final book of the trilogy is
“What IT IS, what IT DOES, and what IT appears AS.” Meaning, that the
Singularity aspect of “Aware Space” or “God;” expresses itself as a
seamless Triune of potential, processing, and the emergence of that
potential. The operative words here are the Triunistic relationship between
“IS, DOES, and AS.” I see this Triune as a self-perpetuating continuum and
the goal of this book is to share this specific insight.
However, before I move on and elaborate on the Triunistic Model of
Reality, allow me to expand on some of the main terms that I will be
returning to throughout this book. First of all, what exactly do I mean by a
‘Triune’? Conceptually, the Triune itself sounds like a simple dynamic that
refers to the union of three distinct components as a singularity. I recently
researched several dictionaries for their definitions of a ‘triune’ but was left
unimpressed as the dictionaries merely deflected by referring back to the
‘Christian Trinity’ or even worse, suggesting that a triune could be any
groupings of three things or one thing having three parts.
This, for me, is just more evidence that we, as students of Life, have
missed the most obvious clue to the actual architecture of both individuated
beings and the totality of Reality itself. There is ample evidence that the
World Religions were once aware of the Triunistic model of Reality simply
because the actual scriptures of all of the main religions outright claim to be
a Triune, Trinity, Trikaya, Trimurti, Three in One, etc., which are all
examples of a Triune.
Today, when you try and research any of these examples of the
Triune, you will not find very much. As this very topic is virtually non-
existent in a world that is otherwise blossoming with wisdom regarding
everything from Nonduality to Theoretical Physics. And the reason that I
have been pointedly obsessed with the Triune for the last two decades is
that I see it as a bridge that reveals in extraordinary detail the union of all-
natural studies including the physical sciences, mystical traditions, or direct
self-examination.
As I mentioned in my first book, I discovered the concept of the
‘Triune’ as I was struggling to understand with perfect clarity just HOW the
One, or more correctly, the Singular manifests as the many. This has never
been explained to my satisfaction because every attempt that I have heard
before, either didn’t bother to explain the very specifics of the HOW or
demanded too many leaps of faith for me to be satisfied in any reasonable
way.
YESSSSS!!! That’s it. That’s the whole story right there. But not
quite. Actually, not even close. This epiphany was only the beginning as it
just served to remind me of another symbol that I read about in a Buddhist
book called a ‘Robal.’ I thought of the ‘Robal’ because the rainbow made
me wish there was a symbol where the sun or light source emanated as the
rainbow itself. And that is what the ‘Robal’ looks like but I’m pretty sure
the ‘Robal’ is just theoretical because what it is, is a crystal ball that
somehow contains a self-illumined rainbow within the ball itself.
Once I intuitively ‘got’ the Trikaya, I saw it was the basic design of
everything in existence; from the micro to the macro, the internal to the
external, the manifest to the Unmanifest, etc. And as the years went by, I
would notice it more in more in nature, society, culture, science, religion,
etc. That is why it is so shocking to me that I find virtually nothing of what
I am about to share in this book on the World Wide Web.
The only book that I can recommend is the book I referenced earlier
and that is called “Wonders of the Natural Mind” by Tenzin Wangyal. It is
an academic book so I will warn that it is written as such. And there are
only six or so pages written specifically about the ‘Trikaya’ but as I said,
there is very little out there unless you consider studying academic material
at certain Universities.
Perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned from that book was the
structure of the Triune. As I alluded to earlier, an actual Triune does not
refer to any given thing that simply has three attributes, even if the three
attributes are all similar. In fact, it is not the specific quality of the attributes
that make a Triune but rather the relationship between these attributes.
Another dynamic that I had to figure out for myself over many years
was that not only was there necessarily a Base, path, and fruit to any proper
Triune. But, beyond having that specific relationship to one another, there is
also a deeper nuance where it is always the inseparability or union of two
that results in the third. And it is always the middle component that
transforms the base into the fruit. I will outline this particular dynamic in
great detail once we get to the appropriate chapter.
I will illustrate how a proper Triune is not merely any subject that
has three closely related components. But instead, a very specific
relationship between three components where it is the union of two that
emerge as the third. I will illustrate this point by telling you a short story
about how I was looking for examples of the Triune in nature when I
naturally looked to the brain to be an example of a triune, as the brain is as
much as a perfect and natural symbol for life that you will ever find.
The ‘do’ refers to the specific process of the base. The base always
performs an action or follows a path. The ‘doing’ of the base is what
transforms the base into the fruit. This is the active side of the Infinite.
The ‘as’ refers to the base transformed into the fruit. The base is still
there as a base. But the Base manifests AS the fruit. The ‘as’ is what
resolves the paradoxical relationship between mind and matter or the
Supreme Source and its creation. Actually, the ‘as’ emasculates the concept
of creation altogether since it becomes evident that nothing is ever created
but rather transformed from its base. Then the new manifestation instantly
becomes a new base of its own that will undergo a process that transforms it
into a new fruit and this dynamic plays out endlessly.
This is why I used the leaf picture in Book One to illustrate how the
‘One appears as many.’
In actuality, the leaf is one inseparable whole. But if the leaf were to
bend or curl up into itself, even the slightest bend would cause the
appearance of a shadow to obscure part of the leaf. This is our exact
situation as Pure Undifferentiated Awareness experiencing ourselves as
fragmented and limited beings cut off from the whole.
I created the picture of the world being inside the Buddha to try and
communicate what it is like for you to see the world AS you.
What I was trying to convey with that picture is an actual physical
sensation that the world is actually inside of you. Of course, what I mean by
‘inside’ of you, is again, a pointer that what you actually are is Aware
Space. And within this Aware Space, the appearance of a world arises and
that world is recognized to be none other than a single emergent property of
your full potential being actualized.
You can back up your attention right now to verify for yourself that
you are indeed the very Aware Space for every object that arises in your
existence. The easy and obvious part is to recognize that the world is IN
you as you take notice that you are indeed - Aware Space. If you continue to
back up your attention, you will then notice that your body also exists IN
you, as Aware Space.
Now you can back up your attention even further to the next rung
where you will notice how even your thoughts are arising IN you, as Aware
Space. And as you continue to back up to the farthest rung back, you will
discover the subtlest sense of an ‘agency.’ I view this sense of an ‘agency’
to be an outward expression of the Original Aware Space having the quality
of ‘Isness’ or ‘Being.’ While ‘Aware Space’ actually does have the quality
of ‘Isness;’ the emergent mirrored copy that we know as the sense of
‘agency’ or ‘self’ only has the appearance of actual ‘Isness’ or ‘Being.’ The
tiniest bit of inspection reveals that this sense of an ‘agency’ is just a wispy
yet active tension.
Now, let’s move on to the true and actual ‘Isness’ at hand… But
before we move on, I want to end each section with a summation of all
examples of a Triune mentioned in that particular section so we can see
them all lined up together revealing the far-reaching implications of the
Triunistic Model of Reality.
Base path fruit
Essence action result
Is as does
Potential processing emergence
Behind you Center front of you
Sunlight bending rainbow
Light refraction color spectrum
Nothing something everything
Unmanifest sense of self world
Left brain right brain consciousness
Leaf curl shadowed leaf
IS
June 6, 2012
The second Experience revealed that ‘this is It.’ The very world that
you are experiencing right now is actually the same Aware Space that you
are seeking when you pine for God, Heaven, Nirvana, etc. The Aware Space
that we are all living from is both the Supreme Source of all manifestation
as well as the Capacity for that manifestation. There is nothing but this
Aware Space and its ever-evolving manifestation.
The third experience revealed that it is the act of folding, bending,
contracting, etc. This is the ‘secret’ to specify how the One manifests as the
many, how mind manifests as matter, how heaven and earth are related,
even how man and ‘God’ are related. The fold was revealed to be the
ultimate and most elusive mystery to all of man’s age-old questions about
who are we, how did we get here and where are we going? One elegant
process naturally and effortlessly reveals the true nature of identity,
creation, and destiny. This would be the final vision that I would ever
experience.
After this experience, I would spend the next ten years going back
and forth between trying to find the right way to communicate what I
experienced and feeling too overwhelmed by the idea of finding the right
way to put it in words. Because the very basis of what I experienced was
that ‘this is It;’ or in other words, the physical world that we experience is
actually an appearance of ‘Truth’ itself. I was confident that this ‘Truth’
should also be found in our sciences and religions.
After looking to science and religion for any clues that may explain
my three experiences, it began to dawn on me that they did both offer a
context for my experiences but each for different reasons. What I found was
that advanced religious academics seemed to understand that the ‘One
manifests as the many’ but I have never found one attempt to explain just
‘how’ this magical feat could ever be pulled off. Everybody seems to be
satisfied that it is simply a mystery and therefore the subject is allowed to
be casually shrugged off as a mere distraction. Meanwhile, science seems to
be greatly aware of the mysterious process that enables the ‘One to manifest
as the many,’ and that is the ‘fold.’
There are always extremes but even the extreme religious man
would have to admit an interest and perhaps awe as far as the functioning of
the physical universe even if he wants to refer to that functioning as
‘intelligent design.’ And likewise, even the most extreme scientific man,
would have to admit an interest and perhaps awe at the sense of self that he
experiences even if he regards that ‘sense of self’ to be an impersonal
neurological reaction. But I think most of us find ourselves right in the
middle, completely mystified and ultimately unsatisfied with the answers
that both camps are providing us separately.
When we study the nature of the physical world that man seems to
inhabit, physicists have also been able to map out virtually every aspect of
the universe but the one area that confounds their studies is, yes that’s right,
“Awareness.” The most advanced physicists in the world have delved so
thoroughly into the nature of matter that they have found themselves deep
in the rabbit hole of recognizing the observer effect on the very matter that
they are studying. It seems all too obvious that it is ‘Awareness’ that
confounds the scientist at all turns just as it is the process or functioning of
‘Awareness’ that confounds the religious man.
Then again, you can’t blame the religious man because it is not
necessarily his domain to understand let alone explain the process. And
likewise, you can’t blame the physical scientist for not understanding the
nature of Awareness because their domain of research is by definition,
limited to the physical domain. But it is the everyday man that finds
himself, once again, square in the center of ‘Awareness’ and its mechanistic
process. Although I have the utmost respect for scientists, I can’t claim to
be one and I don’t wish to paint myself as anything other than a casual fan
of some very specific scientific aspects. Also, I have the utmost respect for
religion, but I do not wish to paint myself as anything other than a casual
fan of some very specific religious aspects. I am only beholden to truth and
I see it in both sides of the circle.
June 14, 2012
One of the many aspects of the “Original contraction” that you also
see mirrored in the emergent ‘dualistic world’ is the very dynamic that is
responsible for this cyclical nature of reality. And that is the magnetic
attraction that caused the “Original contraction” in the first place. And the
magnetic attraction that made creation inevitable also mirrors itself on a
reproductive level whether you are talking about the binding of cells,
colonization of organisms, plants reaching for the light, fertilizer finding the
egg, or just a guy checking out a girl’s body.
I can go on and on about this for hours and I intend to get it all out
on paper but I want to end this thought with a few of the implications that
necessarily follow from this perspective. The first and most important being
that This is actually IT! If you’re looking for Heaven, then look no further.
Just like the appearance of a rainbow does not take away from the fact that
the rainbow is actually clear white light, the appearance of ‘things’ does not
take away from the fact that right now, we are staring straight into the
Abyss. And at this very moment, you are mistaking the Abyss to be these
words you are reading right now. Or, maybe not. Perhaps you are aware that
the ‘scene’ you are taking in right now is indeed, actually the very ‘Abyss’
from which all manifestations arise.
The last insight that I will share with you on this topic is the reason
that I am writing in the first place. If I had to simplify my point about the
Triunistic perspective then I would say that the mathematical formula of
life, the universe, and everything is 1÷1=3. The One (1) folding in on itself
(÷1) results in ‘emergent manifestation’ (=3). The ‘third’ emerges from the
inseparability of the One and itself ‘AS’ an ‘apparent other’ due to its
‘folding’ or ‘self-division.’
And I know that this likely does not seem to make sense yet. Which
is why I put it in a way that you can actually visualize this point.
...Oh boy, I hope that every time I say “This is IT,” that I am not
giving the impression that I am saying my current state of mind or
perspective is the ultimate. I know that I am not the only one that has used
the expression ‘this is it.’ And I don’t necessarily know what others mean
so let me share with you what I intend to communicate when I use those
words. Whenever I say to someone that ‘this is it,’ what I mean to convey is
not a particular ‘state of mind’ but rather a ‘sense of location.’
In other words, the very ‘place’ that you are looking for whether it
be Heaven, Nirvana, the astral realm, the Bardos, the great Ohm,
Emptiness, the Void, Enlightenment World, Space or even Capacity itself is
actually nowhere other than this very same Aware Space that you are
staring into as you read these words right now.
I get the feeling that people think that they are living in a pumpkin
and that one day they will leave the pumpkin and graduate and move off to
a new place, maybe an apple. And my point is that there is no place to go.
There is only this Aware Space where distance is only a figment of your
infinite imagination. Everything that can ever exist exists, however
potentially, in this very Aware Space that is currently manifesting as a
computer screen with these words on it.
For me, the ‘holy ghost,’ fits the bill perfectly for the dualistic world
of appearances. Or to put it more simply, you can think of the ‘holy ghost’
as an ‘illusion’ in the sense of ‘maya, samsara, etc.;’ which is caused by the
fold, or rather, the ‘son.’ Of course, when I hear ‘son,’ I hear ‘man’ or even
more broadly ‘individuality.’ Since ‘the son’ or ‘individuality’ is only the
crease in the paper and not the paper itself, the individual can spend their
whole life looking for an actual self. But there is nothing actually there
beyond a simple crease or indentation.
1 ÷1 =3
Stick rub fire
Father son holy ghost
Unmanifest contraction manifest
Source movement sense of duality
Paper crease appearance of two
DO
February 9, 2012
If the main point of the last chapter was that “This is IT,” then the
main point of this chapter is that everything in and of this world takes on
the qualities of the ‘Original dynamic;’ of which our world is a reflection
of. And once again, the ‘Original dynamic’ is the ‘Eternal act’ of “Aware
Space contracting within itself from the sheer power of the magnetic
attraction to itself.”
And, the original 'pulse' or the ‘causeless cause’ is this tension
caused from Awareness being attracted to its self. Since the 'pulse' that this
tension creates is nothing other than Aware Space contracting within itself
to form a vortex of experience, (i.e., individual) everything in that
individuated ‘vortex of experience’ will naturally and unavoidably mirror
that which parented it which is the pulsation of Aware Space.
We are all witnessing the actual “big bang” and “Genesis story” all
wrapped up in one and it is still happening at this very moment on every
level of existence. I want to end this particular thought with an outline of
how the “Original dynamic” mirrors itself in the very world that it
manifests AS.
The way I experience the everyday world now is that I sense this
‘Substratum’ or ‘Original dimension’ to be the actual ‘Source’ that
emanates or enlivens this ‘apparent dimension.’ The ‘Substratum’ is the
true and actual driving force for everything we see and experience in this
physically ‘apparent dimension.’
I was just thinking about how we, as humans, praise expansion and
apologize for contraction when it’s all part of the same movement.
Everything is constantly evolving, after which you have the 'collection,’
which is expansion, the natural order is for this amassed collection (whether
it be o2, blood, energy, karma, etc.) to be dispersed and contraction is
simply the method or conduit for this disbursement of said collected energy.
And this contraction not only disperses the energy but makes room for the
next expansion. It’s all so god damn simple and the implication is that it is
all perfect...even the tragic.
I know it’s horrible to say but it’s true. But I’ve always loved the
bluesman. Tragic circumstances are the seeds for character and soul. The
bluesman knows from their own tragic experiences the beauty of "Joyful
participation in the sorrows of life." Seen in proper perspective, the
struggles of our lives are simply mirroring the ‘Original Tension’ of basic
desire or attraction.
Let us continue on this spiraling path and see where it takes us…
Thus, the emerged world is much like a child who has no choice but
to effortlessly mirror the identical qualities of that which produced it.
Consequently, we should not be surprised to find that our reproductive
systems themselves mirror the reproduction system that created the world in
the first place. The female has eggs, womb, and invagination that clearly are
a physical expression of space, inactivity, potentiality, etc. Likewise, the
male has an outward extending erection with fertile sperm. Which is
clearly a physical expression of the ‘active’ or ‘conscious’ aspect that
transforms the potential to actuality.
Below are just some of the examples that I have observed in nature
that demonstrate how the emerged world that we all experience mirrors the
same qualities of that which created it:
~ Everything in the emerged world exists in outer space which mirrors the
original dynamic of all of the appearances existing in the field of ‘Aware
Space.’
~ Power of attraction drives the process of creation itself. Just as the self-
attraction of Awareness. Vortex, black hole, gravity, contraction, etc., all
mirror the original tension of self-attraction of ‘Awareness.’
~ Filters create specifics of reality. This mirrors the original dynamic where
the process of ‘individuation’ is the original filter that transforms the
Unmanifest into the dualistic world we all experience.
So, you can’t even explain the original dynamic in temporal terms.
Nevertheless, we do see that ‘potentiality,’ ‘magnetism,’ and ‘emergence’
play out in the most crucial roles in every aspect of our physical sciences. I
view these three specific components as the most fundamental to the
countless examples of the Triune that we see in nature.
This is the actual Virgin Birth. This is your story. This is not the
story of Jesus but rather the story of existence altogether. We are the Virgin
Birth still in the process of that original miracle. The “I AMness” arises
from ‘Awareness’ contracting to become aware of itself.
From the virgin birth of the “I AM,” naturally and necessarily brings
about what I suspect the Christians are referring to with their concept of the
‘Original Sin.” Again, I know zilch about Christianity but the ‘Original Sin’
sounds an awful lot like the Buddhists concept of “avidya” which translates
into our ‘basic ignorance’ of taking ourselves to be this appearance of the “I
AM.” And once you begin the identification process with the perception of
‘I AMness,” this process inevitably devolves into further ignorance of “I am
this and that” and all these other things that come and go like being a parent
or a husband or a worker or a lover of this or that.
October 5, 2013
The following is a letter I wrote after I discovered the Jewish
concept of ‘Ein Sof.’
...The bottom line is that the Jewish tradition already nailed it. They
even got the part of the bending or folding that I have always been so
excited about. Here is the Jewish Triunistic model in a nutshell. ‘Ein Sof’ is
the first aspect of the Triune; it’s what I call the Unmanifest. Israel is the
third aspect of the Trinity; it’s what I call the world. The Torah is the second
aspect of the Trinity which is the link or intermediary between the
Unmanifest and the world, (Ein Sof and Israel).
Here is the most exciting part. The reason the Torah is the link
between Ein Sof (Unmanifest) and Israel (manifest) is due to a concept
called ‘Tzimtzum’ which is the ‘contracting’ of God. And just like the
bending of light creating a rainbow, the Jewish ‘Tzimtzum’ is the bending
or contracting principle that creates the appearance of a world. Holy shit,
the Jewish tradition has known this all along.
The only difference is when most read this stuff; they seem to
interpret these ancient teachings as to how God decided to and then
implemented his plan to create a universe. It’s all seen through the lens of
personification. I included the illustration above because looks like an
upside-down version of the same structure that I described with the black
and white circle.
Base Path Fruit
February 9, 2013
OK, so I will start with how I see the experience of ‘individuality’
as a crease or a fold of sorts. Very much like a vortex or a black hole. In this
crease, these 'moments' that I am talking about, collect as 'memories'. The
Buddhists refer to these moments as 'Cittta's and the entire collection of
them is what we refer to as our lives as individuals.
I would like to illustrate the similarity between ‘Aware Space’ self-
contracting due to the sheer magnetic attraction to itself and the scientific
model of a ‘black hole.’ What creates a ‘black hole’ is likewise, this very
same dynamic of self-contracting or collapsing within itself. Visually, Space
could be represented by the spatial grid that is being bent. And Awareness
would represent the active tension that creates this bend/contraction in
space, resulting in the act of imploding in on itself which in turn creates the
appearance of a ‘black hole’ or ‘vortex’ of individualized awareness.
Another similarity between the emergent ‘black hole’ and the
emergent ‘individualized awareness’ comes from a relatively new
understanding of black holes. Just as I detailed in book one of this trilogy;
that the world is in actuality a Singularity within a 2D flat screen appearing
as a 3D holographic image. Similarly, the information in a black hole is
now understood to actually be a Singularity within a 2D flat sheet appearing
as a 3D holographic image.
The first thing that caught my attention about the new understanding
of black holes is that the ‘information’ in the black hole exists in two places
at once; first, it exists as a Singularity within a 2D flat sheet, and secondly,
it simultaneously exists as a 3D holographic image. You could not give a
better description of how our entire lives are playing out right now; as we
ALSO exist as the Singular while simultaneously existing as apparent 3D
holographic images that we take to be the actual reality.
Furthermore, while we live in illusion regarding the experience of
‘time’ in the apparent 3D holographic world; the experience of the
‘Singular’ is ‘atemporal’ or ‘timeless’ where I have seen for myself that the
‘end’ has already happened, despite our persistent sense that we need to
catch up to our future. Time only operates in association with the
‘consciousness’ that we are solely identified with. We can all experience
‘timelessness’ by simply forgoing our attachment with the unbroken stream
of identification that quietly operates just under the surface.
What I mean when I say that the information from the 3D hologram
remains the same at the level of the ‘Singularity;’ could be better
communicated to you if you imagine painting a greatly detailed ‘scene’
across the entire surface of an open accordion. Now, just imagine as you
sink down the funnel that I was describing, the fully opened accordion that
is now covered in this painted ‘scenery’ begins to ‘contract,’ as you,
‘contract’ down the funnel.
It may seem logical that at the level of the ‘Singularity,’ one would
experience all of the information at once, and maybe I did. But I would not
describe my personal experiences of ‘timeless’ as experiencing everything
all at once because none of these experiences of the Singularity reflected
any specifics about the past or future.
It’s like an endless horizon that recedes away every time that you try
and grasp at it. Awareness takes itself to be something ‘else.’ When you try
and grasp at that ‘otherness,’ it is completely unrealizable. Then when you
examine the supposed ‘individual’ that arises from the ‘Original
hallucination,’ you find the same dynamic. A nervous system generating its
own experience based on a supposed 'otherness' or outside world.
The world our brain creates is even by the most basic scientific
standards, just an illusion or ‘appearance’ based on some ‘supposed’ real
outside world that we amazingly can never actually perceive. Instead,
mainstream basic science tells us that the world that we think we see is
actually just copies of copies of something supposedly 'outside.’
What I mean by that is; even by the most conservative view of our
world through the lens of classic physics, we find that the world we
experience is merely an illusion or a reconstruction of a supposed ‘real
world.’ Classic Physics tells us that our experience of seeing, hearing,
feeling etc., is actually produced in our minds. According to them, there is
an actual outside world but the way that we experience the outside world is
that the information from the outside world interacts with our senses and
our nervous system then recreates a useful experience based on an
extremely filtered version of that information.
OK, so while we are talking about the brain. I have always been
fascinated with the tension of 'balance' and the accumulating and shifting of
energies as a 'tipping point.’ On a subtle level, all that is taking place, in
Reality, is something akin to water finding its own level. On a materialistic
level, the brain is supposedly generating thoughts and experiences.
Scientists boggle our minds with tales about how thoughts are a result of
neural connections. The idea that a neuron firing will determine whether or
not you experience this or that thought/experience is strange enough but
when you look into what actually determines whether any particular neuron
fires or not, you will only find an endless horizon of the same pattern
playing itself out on ever subtler levels.
Now, it’s been a long time since I've studied this stuff, but if my
memory serves me correctly, this is the process that determines if any
particular neuron fires or not. First, the neuron lays dormant full of
potential. What determines whether or not that potential is actualized or not
starts in a little wheel-like compartment in the neuron. Picture a little
spinning wheel with tiny holes in it.
These little holes lie in wait for tinier particles like potassium or
sodium to fill them. Depending on what fills these holes and how quick
they are filled, will determine the fate of each neuron. Now we can go even
deeper by looking into what determines which particles happen to fill up
first and how but it’s just going to be more of the same process. It is the
very same never-ending horizon of cause and effect always happening j-u-s-
t o-u-t t-h-e-r-e....
April 25, 2013
...As I alluded to earlier, I was contemplating the nature of
'decisions' which led to contemplating the nature of 'memories' which led to
contemplating the nature of 'time.’ I noticed that 'time' was born from and
relegated to the ‘mind’ only. I found that time was simply an experience of
the mind that appears simultaneously with the very rising of this ‘active
consciousness.’ In other words, it only takes the slightest duration of
consciousness to create the experience of 'time.’
Now, here is where it gets interesting. After I noticed that 'time' was
a byproduct of the mind, I couldn't help but notice a correlation between the
Triunistic nature of Awareness and the Triunistic nature of the world that
appears in Awareness. The world of appearances (manifestation, matter,
etc.) is a direct result of the activity of ‘Aware Space.’ So, just like a child
will naturally mirror the same qualities of his parents that created him, the
world itself will also mirror the qualities of that which created it.
The entire world mirroring the very qualities of that which created it
is suggestive that the entire whole of Reality could be best described as the
‘Original fractal.’ The “origin point” for the ‘Original fractal’ is/was the
inseparability of ‘Aware Space’ itself. The resultant ‘emergence’ of duality
from ‘Aware Space’ is the continuum that fractals into the mirrored version
of the space/time continuum affecting matter. Here we have yet another
example of "As above, so below.”
Furthermore, when we examine the nature of matter itself, we find
that it also suggests a Triunistic relationship with the very energy that it was
created from. In other words, energy and matter are interchangeable under
the right conditions or ‘path.’ The particular path that transforms the ‘base’
of Energy into the ‘fruit’ of matter, is the ‘action’ of the speed of light
squared. Thus, all along, the most famous of all scientific equations, E=
mc2 just happened to be another beautiful example of the Triunistic
dynamic at work.
When I say that This is IT, I mean that literally, this is IT; the
rainbow is actually the white light. Matter is actually energy. The world is
actually God. Samsara is actually Nirvana. Etc.
June 4, 2013
...Yea, every aspect of manifestation is practicing some form of
reproduction. That’s all it’s capable of...a room of mirrors that are folding to
multiply and divide itself in infinite ways. And getting back to my point of
'as above so below;’ Just as sex grounds the tension of desire for a while,
likewise, the arising of the world temporarily grounds the ‘Original tension’
of Awareness’ natural inclination to become aware of itself. And this rising
and decaying ‘magnetic attraction’ to itself plays out infinitely from the
cycle of day and night to our heartbeat and everything in between.
Occasionally, Bodhi will hump the big pink bunny that we keep in
the toy pile but when it comes to playing, but he usually only chooses to
play with one of his dog friends; Jerry or Toby, the big lab next door. As it
occurs to me that this is a rare event, I had the thought that this may be the
last time I ever see Bodhi play with a stuffed animal like this.
When I was really fascinated with the whole 'Triunity' thing, I used
to keep meticulous notes about everywhere I saw the ‘Triune’ in nature
including my own practice of introspection. One particular note of interest
was the 'pulse' like nature of thoughts. The arising and decaying of thought
followed by a space before the next thought. My practice at one point was
to widen that gap before thoughts and as I did, I noticed something very
interesting.
If you were to diagram the ebb and flow of your thoughts as a
waveform, each active thought would be represented by a single raised
wave while the empty space between each thought would be represented by
the flat and bottomed out part of the waveform between each raised wave.
Thus, the longer that you practice silence or stillness, the longer the amount
of time the waveform will be spent in the resting or flat phase of the
dynamic. Likewise, the diagram of a very busy mind would reveal more
time being spent in the raised portion of the waveform.
When I first thought about this, there was no such thing as I-phones,
so we all still used video cameras. Depending on how high of a quality film
you were trying to make, you could adjust how many frames were being
recorded per second. Obviously, the more frames per second, the more
realistic or convincing was the film was. This relationship between frames
per second and the convincing nature of the film became for me, a perfect
metaphor for the human experience. The more time spent in thought results
in more frames per second which means a more realistic or convincing
experience. In other words, the more time spent in silence, the lower the
resolution of the film and the less it will be convincing.
What I mean by that is that when we use the word 'illusion' or the
phrase 'not there,’ we are drawing a contrast to something that is 'not'
illusory or something that 'is' there. When you come to the point in your
spiritual path that you discover that the entire world including yourself is
merely a trick of the mind, you feel intellectually and even emotionally
justified in saying that the ‘world’ or your ‘self’ is merely an illusion. If you
are coming from the perspective that ‘you’ and the ‘world’ are solid and
independent fixed objects, then yes, when you or the world are properly
examined, they would be found to be illusory.
A long time ago, I wrote about how the triune describes three
levels/aspects/dimensions of Nothing. Let me go over it again, this time
using light as an analogy for Awareness.
To the left, you have the base, what it is, which is pure
undifferentiated white light (Nothing). In the center, you have the path,
what it does, which is bending the light (still no-thing, just an action). To
the right, you have the fruit, what it creates, which is pure undifferentiated
light appearing as a rainbow (still nothing, just an appearance of
something). As you can see, on every level, there is never anything at all.
No-thing is nothing, actions are not any-thing and the appearance of things
are still no-thing. There is nothing on any level, so to tell someone that
something specific doesn't exist (i.e., you or the world) seems to be an
elementary point at best.
This last section will be the conclusions that I have drawn from
investigating the ‘Triunistic Model of Reality.’ It is here that I will try and
tidy up all the loose ends; elaborate on some particular points and otherwise
emphasize the most vital aspects of this illuminating perspective. Let me
start at the beginning where we can see the evolution of our wisdom that
has gotten us to this point so far.
When we first approach the topic of the ‘Ultimate Truth,’ the simplest
version presents itself as teachings of ‘Onesness.’ The most common words
to denote the ‘One’ are ‘God,’ ‘Universe,’ ‘Reality,’ ‘Logos,’ ‘Source,’
‘Totality,’ ‘Awareness’ or ‘This.’ Today, the topic of ‘Truth’ is best found in
the study of ‘Non-duality’ which reflects a deeper look into this ‘Oneness’
revealing the union of ‘inseparable pairings.’
Some of these ‘inseparable pairings are; Yin and Yang, Atman and
Brahman, Samsara and Nirvana, Unmanifest and Manifest, Heaven and
earth, Subject and Object, or the One and the many. But the inseparable
nature of these pairings is merely stated as a truth rather than explained in
slow deliberate detail. The union is asserted but never fully explained just
exactly ‘HOW’ the ‘One appears as many.’ This is where the “Triunistic
model of Reality” comes in.
The most general ‘Triune’ would be Is, does, and as. Or, as stated in
the Dzogchen teachings: the Essence, action, and result. Specifically, each
major religion has its own Triune. Even though in today’s world, most
religions do not seem to publicly demonstrate any working knowledge of
their own specific Triunes, each of them does still claim to be a Triune so I
will list the examples of the ‘Triune’ in each major religion despite the lack
of any ‘publically reported understanding’ on their part. Just because they
do not yet realize that they are actually part of the party is no reason to
leave them off the guest list.
Let us start where we are right now in this very moment. There is an
unseen half to your existence and this unseen half has been ‘behind’ you
this whole time.
This missing half of our lives is our ‘Silent’ half or our ‘Still half.’
The ‘Still half’ is as much a part of our lives, or perhaps even more so, than
our acknowledged ‘active half’ of our lives. I say that the unseen half
behind us is perhaps, even more, a part of our life than the seen half in front
of us because it is only the unseen half of our lives that is behind us that
always remains unmoved, unchanged, and unaffected. While the front half
of our lives are continually in a state of moving, changing, and succumbing
to the whims of everything else that does affect it.
Even the very center of our lives is subject to change when you find
yourself to be not just a mere individual but rather ‘Aware Space’ for
everything that appears. Right now, when you look at the very first thing
that arises out of the Empty Space that you are, you will find arms and
perhaps torso and legs if you are sitting down. We will call this your
‘avatar’ since it always appears at the very bottom center of your
experience similar to a first-person video game or a virtual reality
experience.
And the reason that the very center of our lives is also subject to
change is because the particular ‘avatar’ that you see right now is very
much subject to change with each passing incarnation.
Right now, when you examine your specific ‘avatar,’ you may find
that you have the arms and legs of a white man. But in a different
incarnation, you could just as easily wake up to find your avatar has the
arms and legs of a black female. In fact, you could wake to find that your
‘avatar’ has whiskers and a snout if you should awaken as an animal. Or
perhaps your ‘avatar’ has antennae if you awaken as an insect. Or perhaps
your ‘avatar’ could have some flames at the center or leaves at the center if
you should awaken as a tree or a sun.
But my point is that no matter what you manifest AS, the dynamic will
always be the same in that there will always be the ‘perceived’ in front of
you, the ‘unperceived’ behind you, and the sense of being the ‘perceiver’
that is directly in the center of your experience. And it is my experience that
tells me that no matter whether you are experiencing this world, dreams, the
bardos, the astral planes, the afterlife, or anything else that can possibly be
conceived; it is all happening right here in this Aware Space and operating
within the same ‘Triunistic’ dynamic of the ‘Undifferentiated Awareness
appearing AS another.’
As our interests evolve, so does the world that we enliven with our
Awareness. As we grow and expand our understanding of what we are, we
illuminate deeper aspects of the ‘Potential,’ thus bringing our entire
experience of the world into a broader and more complete perspective.
Consider the whole of reality to be a laboratory of sorts where you can
work out ideas and tinker with experiments. The interests and fascinations
that you have in life will determine the specifics of what emerges as
‘actuality’ from the pure ‘Potentiality’ of ‘Aware Space.’
The first of the three categories were referred to as the ‘sutras.’ The
‘sutras’ represent the path of ‘renunciation.’ This would look like someone
renouncing eating meat or having sex or perhaps even more broadly,
renouncing all worldly things. My personal impression is that the vast
majority of religious or spiritual practitioners are practicing some form of
‘renunciation’ whether they realize it or not. I see this not only in the
Abrahamic religions but the Vedantic ones as well.
Whatever you desire; you will realize this desire until you learn
from the results of that desire that you actually desire something else. That
is until time does its thing and then you learn that this desire was not
fulfilling either. This continues on and on until you reach what I referred to
in the first book of the Trilogy as the “last desire,” and that is the desire to
desire nothing. It is at this point that you graduate from the path of
renunciation and the path of transformation and proceed to the path of
seeing for yourself that there is indeed nothing to renounce and nothing to
transform.
But I don’t want to get too far from the thought that I was exploring
about there being something that was missing in my life; as this topic
dovetails perfectly into what may very well be the ‘key’ to this whole thing.
The reason that I always like to come back to the diagram of the black and
white circle is because it is actually a map of where the very beginning and
end of the entire Quest for ‘Truth’ rests.
Let’s take a look at our ‘map’ once more, and this time I want you to
consider how, even as a young child, I was suspicious that there was
something missing in the world that I was experiencing.
I am sure you can already guess by the diagram above that what I
sensed was missing from my experience was this Unseen half of my life. I
was living from this other Unseen half of my existence but I was not aware
of it on any level so I was living life incompletely.
It was only much later in life, as I detailed in book one; where my
discovery of meditation introduced me to the experience of Stillness and
Silence. And this Stillness or Silence would ultimately be recognized as the
Unseen half of my life. I found that the more I cultivated presence in this
‘Stillness,’ the more it completed me as a ‘whole.’ And perhaps the most
profound outcome of ‘Complete Seeing’ was not the diminishing of the
‘seen’ half of my life but rather the inclusion of the Unseen half of my life.
What I mean by that is that the recognition that you are Nothing but
‘Aware Space’ for all appearances, does not diminish or devalue in any way
the appearances themselves but rather, it elevates the appearances to be a
direct manifestation of the ‘Supreme Source’ itself. From this perspective,
literally, everything that appears is ripe with profundity as each individual
thing is ‘smeared’ together with every other individual thing; revealing all
of them to be none other than the ‘whole’ itself.
One of the results of ‘Complete Seeing’ for me, was the realization
that all of life could be widdled down to the very simple dynamic of Life
learning love. You can view it as a ‘Triunistic continuum’ of ‘Life-learning-
love.’ Or you can view them individually as everything in existence falling
into the category of either ‘life,’ ‘learning’ or ‘love.’ And it feels extremely
‘trite’ to end my book with the anticlimactic pronouncement that in the end,
it is all about ‘love.’ But I am beholden to write what I see and as
unimpressive as it is to say that Life-learning-love is my final assessment; I
will say it anyway because that is what I see as the ‘Truth.’
Let’s start with the ‘seed’ since the ‘seed’ could be a symbol for the
entire whole of Reality. The seed alone could produce nothing as the seed
alone is pure ‘Potential.’ However, if the seed undergoes what ‘Botanist’
refer to as an ‘agitation’ of the seed; then this ‘agitation’ (caused by water)
will violently crack the seed open. It is only this violent ‘agitation’ that is
capable of transforming the ‘Potential’ seed into an actual ‘emergent’ tree.
You can literally see this where ever you look. The violence and
ferocious heat of raw steel hammered and tempered until it emerges as a
superior ‘forged steel.’ Or, the forceful tension of barometric pressure
giving birth to a ‘storm.’ Or, the dark and isolated cocooning of the
caterpillar giving way to an evolved butterfly. The examples of Life
demonstrating its very nature to learn and evolve through its ‘struggles’ are
endless.
What I found was that ‘love’ does not inherently exist but rather, it
‘emerges’ from us as a result of our ‘learning.’ ‘Love’ is the fruit of ‘Life’s’
‘learning’ process. As Life learns, it recognizes itself in ‘otherness’ and this
self-attraction is the “Original-love” that mirrors itself in duality as a
specific ‘love’ for this or that. Ultimately, love is the returning to yourself
as the Source. It is Stillness and Silence that is our truest expression of
Love.
Well, I’m not going to get into the Buddhist concept of Bardos or
reincarnation as all of that information is already out there in the public
domain for anyone to research. And it is not that I disbelieve in the Bardos
or reincarnation. I actually think these dynamics are valid and self-
verifiable. But I do not see the Bardos or the afterlife as being much
different than the world we know now. I regard the afterlife to be just more
appearances that come and go just like the appearances of this world.
What I saw in that Diamond Vision was that our feelings, emotions,
and the entirety of our ‘experience as individuals’ coalesce to form the very
fabric of this ‘Collective Whole.’ We cannot perceive the ‘Collective
Whole’ because of the ‘vortex of individuation’ that we are experiencing.
But what I saw in the Diamond Vision was that it is the formless feelings
and emotions of our life that paradoxically give form to this next level
‘Collective Whole.’ It is as if the formless energy of our individual
experiences are somehow transformed into an ethereal yet substantive form
that composes the body of the next ‘Collective Whole’ which we are in the
process of creating.
THE END
Afterword
And you can already see where this is going because the desire to
‘desire nothing’ will naturally draw you right back to the beginning of
simply being born again as ‘Aware Space’ which is tantamount to the death
of the individual and so the cycle continues endlessly.
If that was not confusing enough, this is how it looks if you diagram
the whole thing. I will start with the general schematic of the base path and
fruit and then circle back with ‘Aware Space’ as the specific ‘Original
base.’ I will designate B, P, and F as the base, path, and fruit. Also, I should
remind you that any ‘emergent’ fruit instantly becomes its own base.
So…
Union of B/P=F F/B=P P/F=B B/P=F etc. as it repeats
itself infinitely.
Now, we will go over that again but this time we will designate: ‘Aware
Space’ as the B or base. ‘Magnetic attraction’ as P or the path. And
‘creation’ as F or the fruit.
The inseparability of Aware/Space=magnetic attraction
Union of magnetic attraction and Aware/Space= creation (virgin birth)
Union of creation and magnetic attraction= Aware/Space (death,
enlightenment)
Inseparability of Aware/Space=magnetic attraction Etc. – infinitely.
Everything is.
Nothing is.
And Everything and Nothing are inseparable.
Our world is what it looks like when God looks in the Mirror.
For God to know himself he must look at his self. Our lives are nothing less
than the result of God looking for God. When we look for ourselves we
find God and when we look for God we find ourselves.
Proposed Further Reading
The following is a list of the most influential books that were integral to my