#ânanda

[philippequeau]

Conscience et saccidânanda

3Ramana Maharshi” Ôm citānandarūpam Śivo’haṃ Śivo’haṃ Śivo’haṃ « Ôm. Formé de conscience et de joie, je suis Śiva, je suis Śiva, je suis Śiva. »i Le mot sanskrit cit चित् signifie « conscience », mais aussi « pensée, connaissance »ii. Dans les traditions védique et hindouiste, la « matière » et la « nature » ne se distinguent pas nettement de la « conscience », elles lui sont intimement…

[stoicbreviary]

Sayings of Ramakrishna 186

There are hills and mountains, dales and valleys, under the sea, but they are not visible from the surface. 

So in the state of Sam��dhi, when one floats upon the ocean of Sat-kit-ânanda, all human consciousness lies latent in him.

[anandasamsara]

Tag Game

I’ll assume I’ve been tagged by @edderkopper bc he’s let it open and I think thats funny to do

1. Name: I’ll disclose my full name here bc i’ts been a while since i last had some commotion over it: Raphaella Ânanda Sâmsara Maia Augusto de Souza Faria. The excuse for this mosntrosity is that my dad’s a historian.

2. Nickname: Most people call me Rapha.

3. Zodiac Sign: Theorethically, im a pisces, but i identify better with taurus, my rising

4. Height: vertically challenged but not that much (i have no idea)

5. Languages: Brazilian portuguese, english. I can read spanish and french (modern french confuses me, medieval french is easier) and hiragana japanese. I may be able to string conversation in japanese.

6. Nationality: Brazilian

7. Favorite Season: Anything that’s not summer. pls someone take me out of summer thats the only season i know i don want it anymore please

8. Favorite Flower: Sakura

9. Favorite Scent: Rainy days, coffee, sandalwood, sakura

10. Favorite Color: Earthy palletes and black

11. Favorite Animal: After so many years researching them, foxes.

12. Favorite Fictional Character: Edward Elric

13. Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Coffee, hot chocolate when it’s cold

14. Average Amount of Sleep: I’m guessing 5. I can go anywhere from high functioning on no sleep to barely alive on 20 hours of it

15. Cat or Dog Person: Just had a weekend with dogs and i can say for sure: cats.

16. Number of Blankets You Sleep With: Average of 2, but can go between none to three.

17. Dream Trip(s): Europe as a whole bc medieval cities and castles. But Japan is the biggest dream. If you lose me around Kyoto, never look for me again, but i’d probably be found at any of the Inari shrines in the city (specially the one in the mountains)

18. Blog Established: I changed my handle a few years back, but i’ve been around since 2011 i think.

19. A Random Fact: TW INJURY MENTION AND BODY HARM

As of today, it’s been 9 whole years i fell down 3 steps at my first uni and had the equivalent of an external fracture without broken skin. I fell standing, and when my left foot hit the ground, it was wrong, my foot bent and my ankle touched the floor, which isnt phisically possible. Enough to say i had to learn to walk again, which took 6 months. I can’t do a lot of things bc my ankle is more metal than bone and i can’t bend it properly anymore. I acquired a healthy fear of stairs, and fell down 3 more times since. Part of the reason i left my last job was the aluminium stairs they had me climb to search for documents whenever they didnt feel like it, i panicked a few times. It hurts way too much whenever i strain myself even a little bit. Its been hurting nonstop for two days now.

[samma-sambodhi]

- THE INVERTED MIND - (pt.1) . *Probe into the False Mind: . "Ananda, as you have enquired about the Samatha Gateway through which to escape from birth and death, I must ask you a question. The Buddha then held up His golden hued arm and bent His fingers, saying: ânanda, do you see this? Ananda replied: Yes. The Buddha asked: What do you see? Ananda replied: I see the Buddha raise His arm and bend His fingers, showing a shining fist that dazzles my mind and eyes. The Buddha asked: How do you see it? Ananda replied: I and all those here use the eyes to see it. The Buddha asked: You say that I bend my fingers to show a shining fist that dazzles your mind and eyes; now tell me, as you see my fist, what is that mind which perceives its brightness? Ananda replied: As the Tathàgata asks about the mind and since I am using my own to search for it exhaustively, I conclude that that which searches is my mind." . *Thinking is Unreal: . The Buddha said: Hey! Ananda, this is not your mind. Ananda stared with astonishment, brought his two palms together, rose from his seat and asked: If this is not my mind, what is it? The Buddha replied: Ananda, this is your false thinking which arises from external objects, deludes your true nature and deceives you into mistaking, since the time without beginning, a thief for your own son, thereby losing (sight of) that which is basically permanent; hence the round of birth and death." (11) - see 2nd pic) . - Surangama Sutra . #Buddha #Buddhism #Buddhist #Dharma #meditation #meditator #wisdom #Mindfulness #Spiritual #Enlightenment #Truth #Knowledge #awakening #Consciousness #mind #om #namaste #yogalife #compassion #goodvibrations #positvevibes #energy #lifeforce #goodevening #thursday #Universe #Ego #sutra #nevergiveup #happiness

[kittyfraise]

Sat Chit Ananda – सच्चिदानन- द Les trois formes de l’être Alain Daniélou Le substrat de l’espace apparaît alors comme étant l’existence (sat), le substrat du temps : l’expérience ou jouissance (ânanda), le substrat de la pensée : la conscience (cit).

[manjushriwisdom]

Meditation On Death

“Enough, ânanda. Do not grieve. Do not weep. Have I not told you before, ânanda, that all things that are dear and delightful are of the nature to change, to separate, to sever? So how could it be, ânanda – since whatever is born, become, compounded, and so is subject to decay – how could it be that it should not pass away?” ~ The Buddha, on the eve of His final passing away

The Dissolution of Earth into Water and the Unbinding of the Body: Imagine that you are in your bed at home. You are dying. Friends and family are around you. You are barely aware of them. You are somewhat agitated, and you accept this state of mind. Your body is thin and weak. You cannot get up. You cannot quite sit up. You cannot pick up anything. You do not have, nor do you need, the energy to do anything but simply be here. You are releasing this flesh and bone, this nerve and marrow. You are letting go as you die. Feel your body becoming heavy, pressed down by a great weight. This is a heaviness that is dense and deep, going right to the core of your body. Let yourself be pressed down by the weight of death. As you become weaker, your body feels less defined. Your arms and legs feel not quite part of you. It seems as if your legs could slip off your hipbone, your arms off your shoulders. Experience this body dissolving, melting. There is no distinction between the bed and you.

It’s as if you were sinking into water. With this sinking feeling comes a sense of even greater weakness and tiredness. The boundary between your body and space is beginning to dissolve. Wake up as this body lets go. Your senses are less attuned to the outside world. Your sight is dim and dark. It is difficult to open and close your eyes. Your sensory grasp on the world is loosening. The outside world is slipping away from you. Your skin is pale as your blood pressure drops. The blood withdraws into the central part of your body. There is no strength left now in what was this strong body. You are drowsy and weak with no interest in the outside world. You sink deeper and deeper into an undifferentiated mental state. Whatever visions you see appear like shimmering blue mirages. This is the dissolution of body and of our relationship to the physical world— these feelings of heaviness, drowsiness, being weighed down, the loss of definition, the withdrawal of color from our bodies, the loss of control, and our inability to see the form world around us. In this state of mind and body, be awake, effortlessly present. The mind can be still and reflective as you wake up, as you let go. Be present as this body is dying. This body is not you. This is the dissolution of the element of earth

as it sinks into water and form unbinds into feelings. The Dissolution of the water element into fire and the unbinding of feelings: Feel your body dissolving. As you are letting go, your hearing is diminished, And you sink into an undifferentiated state of mind. You have now lost control of the fluids in your body. Your nose is running; saliva is leaking out of your mouth. There is a watery discharge coming out of your eyes. It is difficult for you to hold your urine. Your generative fluids have dried up. Your skin is clammy. As fluids leave the body, the body becomes parched. Your skin is papery. Your mouth is drawn, and your lips are chapped. Your tongue is thick, sticky, and heavy. Your throat is scratchy and clogged. Your nostrils seem to cave in, burning with dryness as you inhale. Your eyes feel sandy and sting. You are not passing much urine. You have a thirst that no amount of water can quench. Moisture is leaving your body, never to return. Wake up as you are desiccating. Let go fully into this dryness. Release the fluid element of your body, the element of water and of feeling. Your mind is hazy, and you are somewhat irritable.

You have ceased to experience pain, pleasure or even indifference. You do not have feelings related to happiness or unhappiness. You are numb and do not differentiate between physical and mental impressions. Those kinds of distinctions are not important to you now. When you look behind your eyes, you see a vision of swirling smoke. See this haziness that dissolves all differences The water element is dissolving into fire. This is the end of your responsiveness to phenomena. As you let go, wake up in this vision of swirling smoke. The Dissolution of the Fire Element into Air and the Unbinding of Perceptions: As the fire element of your body begins to dissolve into air, your body feels cool. Heat withdraws from your feet and hands into the body’s core. Your breath is cold as it passes through your mouth and nose. Your mouth, nose, and eyes dry out even more. Your ability to perceive is further diminished. The fire element is dissolving into the element of air. You cannot smell anything. You are not hungry nor can you digest food. You cannot drink or swallow. The inbreath is less strong, and the outbreath is longer. Your mental perception alternates between lucidity and confusion

You cannot see, hear, taste, touch or smell as the sense fields fade away. Your inbreath is short. Your outbreath is long. You cannot remember the names of your loved ones, And you cannot recognize those around you. You have lost any sense of purpose in your life, And have no interest in what is going on around you. You may feel as if you are being consumed in a blaze of fire that rises into space. Let go into this fire and see it as your mind releasing itself. Or you may see a vision of sparks, almost like fireflies. Wake up in this vision of shimmering sparks behind your eyes. Let yourself discern the truth of dying. This is the dissolution of the fire element into air and the unbinding of your ability to perceive. The Dissolution of the Wind Element into Space and the Unbinding of Mental Formations: You now have given up any sense of volition. There is nowhere to go, nothing to do. Accept this aimlessness, free of meaning and purpose. You are at last free of these pressures. Your inbreath is short; your outbreath is long. The mind is no longer aware of the outside world. As the element of air is dissolved, you are having visions. Your visions may be jewel-like and filled with insight that can

These visions relate to who you are and how you have lived your life. You may be seeing your family or your ancestors in a peaceful setting. You may be seeing beautiful people, saints, or friends welcoming you. You may be reliving pleasant experiences from your past. Or you may have demonic and hellish visions. If you have hurt others, those whom you have injured may appear to you. Difficult and dreadful moments of your life may arise to haunt you. You may see people with whom you have had negative interactions attacking you. You may even cry out in fear. Do not identify with these visions. Simply let them be. The element of air is dissolving. You do not have to do anything. Just practice this breath of release and let go of everything. Your tongue is thick and heavy; its root is blue. You have lost your taste for life as you lose the sense of taste. You cannot feel texture or body sensations. Your body is barely moving. The last energy of your body is withdrawing now to your body’s core. Whatever heat left in your body now resides in the area of the heart

The inbreath is short, a mere sip of air. The outbreath is long and uneven. Your eyes, gazing into emptiness, roll upward. No intellect is present. Your consciousness at this point is reduced to a smaller and smaller entity. Three rounds of respiration. Your body lifts slightly to meet the breath, which does not enter. Your mental functions cease altogether. Your consciousness has dissolved into space. The perception from the outside is that you are dead. Breathing has stopped. Brain function has stopped. The body feels no sensation. Know this empty state. Know this stillness and surrender to it. Experience it. This is the element of wind dissolving into space. Become space. At the moment of physical death, one sees the small, flickering flame like a candle. Now it is suddenly extinguished, and you are without any awareness. The Inner Dissolutions: From the crown a white drop Is propelled by the inner winds Downward through the central channel toward the heart. This is the male essence, and anger transforms into profound

clarity. You experience an immaculate autumn sky filled with brilliant sunlight. A red drop from the base of the spine is propelled upward through the central channel toward the heart. This is the female essence, and desire transforms into profound bliss. You experience a vast and clear copper-red autumn sky of dusk. The white and red drops meet in the heart and surround your consciousness. The winds enter your consciousness. You are now freed from the conceptual mind. Thick darkness like a deep autumn night sky appears. You dissolve into unconsciousness. Out of this nothingness, luminescence arises. You are one with a clear dawn sky free of sunlight, moonlight, and darkness. You are bliss and clarity. Now the Clear Light of Presence is liberated, the Mother Light of your awareness. This is your ultimate Great Perfection. This is the actual moment of death.* * Joan Halifax wishes to thank the late Chakdud Tulku Rinpoche, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the late Diane Shainberg for help with this practice.

[ngakpakonchokdorjetsondonmystic]

Meditation On Death

“Enough, ânanda. Do not grieve. Do not weep. Have I not told you before, ânanda, that all things that are dear and delightful are of the nature to change, to separate, to sever? So how could it be, ânanda – since whatever is born, become, compounded, and so is subject to decay – how could it be that it should not pass away?” ~ The Buddha, on the eve of His final passing away

The Dissolution of Earth into Water and the Unbinding of the Body: Imagine that you are in your bed at home. You are dying. Friends and family are around you. You are barely aware of them. You are somewhat agitated, and you accept this state of mind. Your body is thin and weak. You cannot get up. You cannot quite sit up. You cannot pick up anything. You do not have, nor do you need, the energy to do anything but simply be here. You are releasing this flesh and bone, this nerve and marrow. You are letting go as you die. Feel your body becoming heavy, pressed down by a great weight. This is a heaviness that is dense and deep, going right to the core of your body. Let yourself be pressed down by the weight of death. As you become weaker, your body feels less defined. Your arms and legs feel not quite part of you. It seems as if your legs could slip off your hipbone, your arms off your shoulders. Experience this body dissolving, melting. There is no distinction between the bed and you.

It’s as if you were sinking into water. With this sinking feeling comes a sense of even greater weakness and tiredness. The boundary between your body and space is beginning to dissolve. Wake up as this body lets go. Your senses are less attuned to the outside world. Your sight is dim and dark. It is difficult to open and close your eyes. Your sensory grasp on the world is loosening. The outside world is slipping away from you. Your skin is pale as your blood pressure drops. The blood withdraws into the central part of your body. There is no strength left now in what was this strong body. You are drowsy and weak with no interest in the outside world. You sink deeper and deeper into an undifferentiated mental state. Whatever visions you see appear like shimmering blue mirages. This is the dissolution of body and of our relationship to the physical world— these feelings of heaviness, drowsiness, being weighed down, the loss of definition, the withdrawal of color from our bodies, the loss of control, and our inability to see the form world around us. In this state of mind and body, be awake, effortlessly present. The mind can be still and reflective as you wake up, as you let go. Be present as this body is dying. This body is not you. This is the dissolution of the element of earth

as it sinks into water and form unbinds into feelings. The Dissolution of the water element into fire and the unbinding of feelings: Feel your body dissolving. As you are letting go, your hearing is diminished, And you sink into an undifferentiated state of mind. You have now lost control of the fluids in your body. Your nose is running; saliva is leaking out of your mouth. There is a watery discharge coming out of your eyes. It is difficult for you to hold your urine. Your generative fluids have dried up. Your skin is clammy. As fluids leave the body, the body becomes parched. Your skin is papery. Your mouth is drawn, and your lips are chapped. Your tongue is thick, sticky, and heavy. Your throat is scratchy and clogged. Your nostrils seem to cave in, burning with dryness as you inhale. Your eyes feel sandy and sting. You are not passing much urine. You have a thirst that no amount of water can quench. Moisture is leaving your body, never to return. Wake up as you are desiccating. Let go fully into this dryness. Release the fluid element of your body, the element of water and of feeling. Your mind is hazy, and you are somewhat irritable.

You have ceased to experience pain, pleasure or even indifference. You do not have feelings related to happiness or unhappiness. You are numb and do not differentiate between physical and mental impressions. Those kinds of distinctions are not important to you now. When you look behind your eyes, you see a vision of swirling smoke. See this haziness that dissolves all differences The water element is dissolving into fire. This is the end of your responsiveness to phenomena. As you let go, wake up in this vision of swirling smoke. The Dissolution of the Fire Element into Air and the Unbinding of Perceptions: As the fire element of your body begins to dissolve into air, your body feels cool. Heat withdraws from your feet and hands into the body’s core. Your breath is cold as it passes through your mouth and nose. Your mouth, nose, and eyes dry out even more. Your ability to perceive is further diminished. The fire element is dissolving into the element of air. You cannot smell anything. You are not hungry nor can you digest food. You cannot drink or swallow. The inbreath is less strong, and the outbreath is longer. Your mental perception alternates between lucidity and confusion

You cannot see, hear, taste, touch or smell as the sense fields fade away. Your inbreath is short. Your outbreath is long. You cannot remember the names of your loved ones, And you cannot recognize those around you. You have lost any sense of purpose in your life, And have no interest in what is going on around you. You may feel as if you are being consumed in a blaze of fire that rises into space. Let go into this fire and see it as your mind releasing itself. Or you may see a vision of sparks, almost like fireflies. Wake up in this vision of shimmering sparks behind your eyes. Let yourself discern the truth of dying. This is the dissolution of the fire element into air and the unbinding of your ability to perceive. The Dissolution of the Wind Element into Space and the Unbinding of Mental Formations: You now have given up any sense of volition. There is nowhere to go, nothing to do. Accept this aimlessness, free of meaning and purpose. You are at last free of these pressures. Your inbreath is short; your outbreath is long. The mind is no longer aware of the outside world. As the element of air is dissolved, you are having visions. Your visions may be jewel-like and filled with insight that can

These visions relate to who you are and how you have lived your life. You may be seeing your family or your ancestors in a peaceful setting. You may be seeing beautiful people, saints, or friends welcoming you. You may be reliving pleasant experiences from your past. Or you may have demonic and hellish visions. If you have hurt others, those whom you have injured may appear to you. Difficult and dreadful moments of your life may arise to haunt you. You may see people with whom you have had negative interactions attacking you. You may even cry out in fear. Do not identify with these visions. Simply let them be. The element of air is dissolving. You do not have to do anything. Just practice this breath of release and let go of everything. Your tongue is thick and heavy; its root is blue. You have lost your taste for life as you lose the sense of taste. You cannot feel texture or body sensations. Your body is barely moving. The last energy of your body is withdrawing now to your body’s core. Whatever heat left in your body now resides in the area of the heart

The inbreath is short, a mere sip of air. The outbreath is long and uneven. Your eyes, gazing into emptiness, roll upward. No intellect is present. Your consciousness at this point is reduced to a smaller and smaller entity. Three rounds of respiration. Your body lifts slightly to meet the breath, which does not enter. Your mental functions cease altogether. Your consciousness has dissolved into space. The perception from the outside is that you are dead. Breathing has stopped. Brain function has stopped. The body feels no sensation. Know this empty state. Know this stillness and surrender to it. Experience it. This is the element of wind dissolving into space. Become space. At the moment of physical death, one sees the small, flickering flame like a candle. Now it is suddenly extinguished, and you are without any awareness. The Inner Dissolutions: From the crown a white drop Is propelled by the inner winds Downward through the central channel toward the heart. This is the male essence, and anger transforms into profound

clarity. You experience an immaculate autumn sky filled with brilliant sunlight. A red drop from the base of the spine is propelled upward through the central channel toward the heart. This is the female essence, and desire transforms into profound bliss. You experience a vast and clear copper-red autumn sky of dusk. The white and red drops meet in the heart and surround your consciousness. The winds enter your consciousness. You are now freed from the conceptual mind. Thick darkness like a deep autumn night sky appears. You dissolve into unconsciousness. Out of this nothingness, luminescence arises. You are one with a clear dawn sky free of sunlight, moonlight, and darkness. You are bliss and clarity. Now the Clear Light of Presence is liberated, the Mother Light of your awareness. This is your ultimate Great Perfection. This is the actual moment of death.* * Joan Halifax wishes to thank the late Chakdud Tulku Rinpoche, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the late Diane Shainberg for help with this practice.

[stoicbreviary]

Sayings of Ramakrishna 50

On the tree of Sat-chit-ânanda there are innumerable Râmas, Krishnas, Christs, &c.; one or two of them come down into this world now and then, and produce mighty changes and revolutions.

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[stoicbreviary]

Sayings of Ramakrishna 3:

Two persons were hotly disputing as to the color of a chameleon. One said, 'The chameleon on that palm-tree is of a beautiful red color.' The other, contradicting him, said, 'You are mistaken, the chameleon is not red, but blue.'

Not being able to settle the matter by arguments, both went to the person who always lived under that tree and had watched the chameleon in all its phases of color.

One of them said, 'Sir, is not the chameleon on that tree of a red color?' The person replied, 'Yes, sir.' The other disputant said, 'What do you say? How is it? It is not red, it is blue.' That person again humbly replied, 'Yes, sir.'

The person knew that the chameleon is an animal that constantly changes its color; thus it was that he said 'yes' to both these conflicting statements.

The Sat-kit-ânanda likewise has various forms. The devotee who has seen God in one aspect only, knows Him in that aspect alone. But he who has seen Him in His manifold aspects, is alone in a position to say, 'All these forms are of one God, for God is multiform.' He has forms and has no forms, and many are His forms which no one knows.

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[stoicbreviary]

Sayings of Ramakrishna 2:

As one and the same material, such as water, is called by different names by different people—one calling it 'water,' another 'vâri,' a third 'aqua,' and another 'pani'—so the one Sat-kit-ânanda, the Everlasting-Intelligent-Bliss, is invoked by some as God, by some as Allah, by some as Hari, and by others as Brahman.

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[anandasamsara]

Back to study i go!

I had a very vivid dream. I had gone back to uni, and was at the library. I was reading about sexuality and sexism, for some reason, and there was also a small uni life magazine that talked about what’s happening that month, who left what classes and why, new students and why they chose their courses, who was back to follow their researches.

There was the news of some guy that left one of his classes bc the professor was a jerk. An article about the accident on the chemistry 3rd classroom provoked by a sleepy student, and that said student was ok. The series of interviews with the new students mentioned a former friend of mine i havent thought about in quite a while.

The “who’s back” section mentioned me. “Raphaella Ânanda, back to follow her fox studies into her masters”.

As i finished reading that, i got up and gathered more books on my research to start my readings.

Then i woke up. And i decided its not gonna stay on dreamland.

I already have a study plan, a talking points list, some bibliography.

I feel better than i have in a very long time. And it’s only been 2 hours.