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Empty Ground

Empty Ground

This blog series tries to muse about the conspicuously hidden yet all pervasive Emptiness, Brahman!

  • need(le)(ss)?

    need(le)(ss)?

    We all want to understand what life means. Many people have different ideas and theories to explain it. Finding the meaning can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack! Here, the haystack represents the world, data, or life itself, while the needle symbolizes the insight or essence we seek, like a special formula… Read More

  • Empty Ground – 2

    Empty Ground – 2

    From the blog, I feel that existence is essentially a mind concept. If dark matter, dark energy exist “beyond” spacetime and our known fields, it begs the question: what is this “beyond,” and could it be the ultimate foundation of existence? A “beyond” that transcends our ordinary experience and comprehension. This brings us to point… Read More

  • Purushottama: BEYOND Ashvattha

    Purushottama: BEYOND Ashvattha

    The spiritual journey, much like the grand epic of the Ramayana, is an intricate dance between what appears real and what truly is. We’ve explored how seemingly disparate concepts, from the fundamental nature of reality in quantum mechanics to the allegorical tales of ancient India, converge on a singular, profound truth: the ultimate nature of… Read More

  • The Rebel’s Surrender: From SISYPHUS to SHABARI

    The Rebel’s Surrender: From SISYPHUS to SHABARI

    We begin in a silent universe. The weight of absolute freedom feels less like a gift and more like a sentence. We are here, thrust into existence without a script, tasked with the monumental burden of creating meaning from scratch in a world that offers none. This is the existential starting point: the confrontation with… Read More

  • The Final Dangling Pointer: Erasing the Mind Itself

    The Final Dangling Pointer: Erasing the Mind Itself

    There’s a thread of inquiry that, once pulled, unravels everything. It begins with a simple question about the world and ends by questioning whether there is a “me” to even ask it. This is the story of that unraveling, a complete philosophical arc from the absurdity of objects to the dissolution of the self. The… Read More

  • The Beautiful (F)law

    The Beautiful (F)law

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the purpose of knowledge. It seems to me that the grand project of epistemology—the quest for knowledge itself—is ultimately designed to falsify itself. Look at science. Our most rigorous mathematical formulations keep changing, stretching, and sometimes breaking, just to accommodate the vastness of our experience. Applied mechanics was… Read More

  • The Ultimate Free Will

    The Ultimate Free Will

    In the last post, I spoke about the tension between the freedom we get from uncertainty and the responsibility we get from knowledge. It feels like a tug-of-war at the heart of our existence. I used to think the answer was to pull harder on the rope of knowledge. But I now believe the only… Read More

  • NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD

    NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD

    There is no “path.”There is no “presence.”There is no “awakening.”There is no “teacher.”There is no “you.” Everything after I AM is a lie. “Becoming a spiritual teacher” =the ego’s final reincarnation. “Serving others” =the ego’s final territory. “Impact” =the ego’s scoreboard. “Obstacles” =the ego inventing enemies so it can keep existing. There is no student… Read More

  • Pointers

    Pointers

    It seems every pointer to the ultimate Reality, though aiming at the same reality, is different, and the pointer itself matters for the journey. Buddhism might say the sea (reality) doesn’t have inherent existence, ever-changing as rivers merge and clouds form. A non-dualist would say the sea exists, and only the sea is everywhere, unchanging.… Read More

  • Empty Ground

    Empty Ground

    The blog tries to present a quest of exploring the nature of reality, consciousness, and existence from philosophical and metaphysical perspectives. It all started with a seemingly simple idea I was grappling with: if subject and object share a common base in consciousness, does that logically negate the idea of “real” subjects and “real” objects?… Read More

  • The Monk, The Scorpion, and The Crocodile Nobody Mentions

    The Monk, The Scorpion, and The Crocodile Nobody Mentions

    A meditation on saving, stinging, and the interpreter who must die There’s a parable you’ve probably heard. A monk sees a scorpion drowning in the river. He reaches down to save it. The scorpion stings him. He reaches again. Stung again. This continues — compassion meeting venom, over and over — until finally the scorpion… Read More