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Highlights of the way of Being Anil Mitra © october 31, 2015—November 08, 2015 Home | Non-technical version | Pocket manual (pdf version) contents
The process has been long and winding. It is the current outcome dialog between my experience, thought and action; conversation, education, study, imagination, and criticism. What is valid and positive in tradition—i.e., the join of common versions of the two main cultural paradigms: the secular and the trans-secular—is consistent with a universe that is limitlessly greater the join. The concepts I have found by trial and error to be most useful are meaning, universe, being, possibility, and tradition as what is valid and useful in the secular, the trans-secular, and the primal. Other useful concepts are derived from these. The Way is discovery of the real and realization of highest immediate and ultimate forms of civilization and Being. The universe is the realization of what is consistent with the ideal form of what we know (the paradigms including science, logic, and religion). Pragmatic knowledge combines with this ideal. The ideal shows what the envelope of realization; the pragmatic is an instrument of realization. What is allowed by the join (liberal) and not just what is required by it (conservative)—this is the core metaphysics as knowledge of the real. Our world is infinitesimal. The immediate and the ultimate mesh (this is not always apparent). Our (this) knowledge or cosmology of the universe is a mesh of the metaphysics and tradition. We realize the ultimate. The process is an endless journey. The cosmology is the knowledge base. Individual ways vary. Some will see an imperative to devote some energy to the truth of realization revealed. This truth and the way are a mesh of the immediate and the ultimate—of everyday and universal process. Once the ideas are absorbed, the imperative according to the way is to begin or re-enter process. I specify a framework based on my experience and thought. The framework is filled out by the tradition and what I have learned in practice. I present the framework in such way that you can modify it and make it your own. You may cast it aside or even reject it but I would hope, then, that you have learned something from it. The inner and the outer are both important. |