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Affirmations of the Absolute

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Vajragoni

Introduction: From Negation to Affirmation

Every path of negation eventually faces a threshold: once all illusions are stripped away, what remains? To stop at emptiness would risk nihilism, but both Unborn Mind Zen and Advaita Vedānta insist that the stripping away only clears the ground for what cannot be denied—the luminous Absolute. read more

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Brahman and Absolute Nothingness in Advaita

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Vajragoni

The Opening Invocation of Brahman

To speak of Brahman is already to fall short. In the Advaita Vedānta tradition, Brahman is the infinite, eternal, unchanging reality that underlies and transcends all phenomena. The Upaniṣads describe it not as an object of thought, not as something to be grasped through senses or concepts, but as pure being-consciousness-bliss (sat–cit–ānanda). Yet even these words are provisional; the sages warn that Brahman is beyond predicate, beyond category, beyond affirmation, and even beyond negation. read more

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