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THE WAY OF BEING Anil Mitra © May 18, 2019—August 30, 2019 Contents
ResourcesIntroductionThe website resources are a general supplement to the brief print version A Journey in Being (this link is to a Microsoft Word document). The reasons for the readings on meditation are as follows. In A Journey in Being yoga is understood more generally than its eastern sense and western adaptations. It is essentially the western ‘reason’ appropriately generalized to be immanent in rather than external to beings and thus to include action and to require no further foundation. However, the print version is brief on this point and the section on the readings provides (a) and explanation of yoga and meditation as understood in A Journey in Being and (b) suggested readings. Website resources1.
The Way of Being website (opens
in a new tab or window); 2.
A source for doubt—the way of
being.html; 3.
A source for concepts—concepts-details.html; 4.
A source for a system of human knowledge, reason, practice, and
action.html (opens in a new window); 5.
The pragmatic
version of the essay; 6.
The analytic
version of the essay; 7.
An essential
version of the essay; http://www.horizons-2000.org/0.
2019-site/the essential way.html. 8. Template—outline—for a comprehensive essay that includes foundation and application for Being and knowledge, especially philosophy and science: template outline (http://www.horizons-2000.org/0. 2019-site/the way - template outline.html). Readings on meditationYoga—by yoga I understand a system that integrates cognition, insight, emotion, body, and experience that is always experimental with regard to means and ends.. That is, there is no final expertise in yoga but ongoing experiment and reflection in relation to fundamental purpose. Meditation—a part of yoga, is also experimental. It is not only an exercise or a practice (e.g. of contact with the real) but, in action, brings one back in the moment to the small and large essentials requiring attention—it is a practice in avoiding ruts. Some readings on yoga and meditation— Pema Chödrön: How to Meditate Chagdud Tulku: Gates to Buddhist Practice The Bhagavad-Gita Traveler Ian Baker: The Heart of the World on the idea of Beyul or nature journey for insight into self or Atman and world or Brahman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles A. Moore: A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy. |