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The Way of Being:
A Way of Seeing and BEING
in the World
Anil Mitra © october 31,
2015—November 13, 2015
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Ground
Aim
The world
The
universe and its transformations
Individual and civilization
The way
Design
The ways
Ground
Begin
with human CULTURE. A triad of ways is:
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The
PRIMAL in which seen and unseen are not split—culturally
or historically.
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The
SECULAR which focuses on the world as seen so far.
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The
TRANS-SECULAR which emphasizes what is yet unseen.
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Limits
of culture. A conception of tradition
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The
post-primal tend to dogma of LIMITS of
focus and approach. The seen vs. the imagined unseen as the world.
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TRADITION
is what is jointly valid in the triad over all cultures and times.
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The
limits of tradition:
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Split
into the seen and unseen.
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Dogma
makes real appreciation and communication impossible.
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The
WAY OF BEING has the following characteristics:
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Ideas
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BEING bridges the cultural
triad. REASON shows the ultimate—the UNIVERSE as all being and envelope of all possibility. METAPHYSICS, the join of reason and tradition, bridges
knowledge of the immediate and the ultimate. Tradition (valid culture)
enables realizing the ultimate in communication with the immediate. ACTION is the process of realization; it requires and
completes the ideas.
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The
way
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Incremental
realization based in the ideas. Emphasizes (a) modes of practice and action
from tradition, (b) experiment with possibilities of practice and
cumulative transformation informed by the metaphysics.
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Aim
The
AIM of the Way is discovery of the real and realization
of highest immediate and ultimate forms of Civilization and Being.
The world
The
universe is ultimate realization. Its essential limit is contradiction. Our
cosmos is essentially infinitesimal.
The
self-identity and manifestation of the universe cycle through ever fresh
peaks of realization and dissolution; amid these cycles are cosmoses without
limit to their kind, size, age, and number; these are in give and take with a
void and transient background that is the store of all being, identity, and
memory.
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The
Indivi- dual
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The
characteristics of the INDIVIDUAL are being,
experience and agency.
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Civil-
ization
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The
‘highest’ grouping of beings, also a being, is CIVILIZATION. HUMAN CIVILIZATION is the
web of human cultures and societies over time and continents. UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION is the matrix of civilizations arcing the
universe.
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The way
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The
way
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The
way shall stand as an integral whole. It enables us to proceed from
principle. It enables a systematic approach to ‘no stone unturned’.
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A
multi-fold way
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Because
individuals vary in temperament, an effective ‘way’ must be multifold and
non exclusive.
The
way should be pertinent to individual (beings, agents), cultures, and
civilization.
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A
menu
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At
the same time it should be written so that individuals may also use it as a
menu—i.e., according to their temperament and interest.
Particularly
it should cater to an inner, an outer or instrumental focus, and—of
course—a joint focus.
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Inner
(Being)
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Ideas,
intellect—the secular disciplines. Practice of yoga and meditation that
encourage living in the immediate as in the ultimate and insight into
physical and catalytic transformation of self. Catalytic practices
emphasize the effect of the physical on the inner being: meditation,
isolation, deprivation, extreme nature immersion, traditional vision quest,
fast, extreme exertion, and others. Immersion politics, economics, and
social transaction and realization.
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Outer
(Instru-mental)
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Science
(natural with real psychology; abstract including mathematics, information,
and automation) and technology applied to physical transformation, machine
augmentation, and embodiment in machines. Application of science and
technology to realizations of being and civilization. Instrumental
politics, and economics, and social transaction and realization.
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