TOTALISTIC COALESCENCE

     Supreme Reality has been given a multitude of terms that differ widely in different traditions.   But they all point to the absolute subjectivity, pure consciousness. This pure consciousness is pure subject before it proceeds to congeal itself and its energies into formation of the objective realms.   Some of these terms will be familiar to students of nondualist philosophy and contemplative science:

Shiva
Paramashiva
Atma
Buddha Nature
Dharmadhatu
Tao
Alayavijnana
Amalavijnana
Vijnana
God
Parabrahman
Brahman
The Void
Rigpa
Tathagatagarbha
Chit
Chaitanya
Bhavanga
The Source
Pure Subject
Our everyday awareness
Reality

And many more.  Whatever term or name may be used it refers to that which can never be an object of verbal expression or definition.   It is beyond ultimate analysis by conceptual structures.  The case always has been, though, with those who have recognized the truth – and they have all said about the same thing all down through the ages – that when an individual re-identifies with this pure subjective source that illumination occurs and Reality is recognized.    One who is truly illumined truly knows and there is no need for anyone else to verify what the truly illumined has come to know.   And what have the illumined ones come to know?  They have recognized and understood that ultimate reality is nondual, immanent and transcendent, internal and external, obvious and hidden, ultimate and relative, subjective and objective.   The descriptions the sages, rishis, buddhas, and all the illumined ones have recorded for our consideration as to what they have realized indicates the method of contemplation used by them to recognize the ultimate truth.   This unveiling of the truth primarily concerns one’s own original nature, one’s own real identity.  This realization cannot be established through philosophy or theory or religious beliefs, but only through personal experience. Contemplation is an individual process through which a contemplative practitioner achieves a final transition from philosophical or theoretical knowledge to a certainty of direct realization.   The process does entail a combination of analytical and insightful knowledge, using the methods of reasoning and critical thinking, along with the final vivid ascertainment of holistic nondual being and becoming, the totalistic coalescence of subject-object.