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The Practice of Negation

  1. Introduction: The Method of Negation

Every authentic encounter with the Absolute begins not with affirmation, but with a stripping away. The ultimate reality—whether named as the Unborn, Brahman, or Absolute Nothingness—cannot be approached by concepts, images, or affirmations. To affirm is already to fall into limitation, for affirmation binds Being to a predicate, and predicates belong to the world of phenomena. Affirmation assumes distinction: this is true, that is false; this is real, that is not. But the Absolute stands prior to all distinctions, prior to the very duality of “is” and “is not.” read more

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Recurring Impressions; Dharmamegha Samādhi

iv. 27-30 Recurring Impressions/Dharmamegha Samādhi

4.27 The subliminal impressions stored in the Alaya-receptacle can rise again due to lapses in the Recollective Resolve. read more

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