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The Way
of Being © Anil Mitra, 1986 – 2024 Contents Becoming—immersive and instrumental
The Way of Being About the templatesThe templates are in-process—so far, they are templates for the templates—further concrete options are to be incorporated; see planning for the templates. They are designed as an improvement on the older templates, templates and dedication, which has greater detail and printable templates in the downloadable docm and pdf versions. There are also standalone docm and pdf versions here (both docm and pdf versions were created and should be editable with Microsoft Word 365). They are a supplement to a plain version of the way of being, which grounds and explains the templates and their form. Currently, the templates reproduce the templates in the plain version; later, at least one of the following will be done (i) eliminate the templates in the plain version and refer to this document (ii) change the templates here to be tailored to use, with automation. Preliminary – on pathwaysComment 1. The following is paste special from outline of the way-new.docm and should be edited at the source. The aim of an enlightened, healthy, or effective lifeway or pathway is effective realization of the ultimate, beginning with its best form in this world (i.e., the world of the seeking beings). That is, there is dual focus on quality of life in our world and the ultimate. The effective path recognizes that experiential human being is discrete over time but ultimate – peak being – over long enough times or at a level of description above time; that is, birth and death are real but not absolute—locally but not absolutely real. In this world the individual experience—perception, thought, feeling, will, and action—is the focus of ends – political, economic, moral and other (positively because it is where all significance lies and negatively by elimination of inanimate / non-feeling objects). Groups and institutions are important but their importance derives from the significance of individual experience. In the universe at large, experience itself is the focus and generator of all ends (and, thus, ‘inanimate objects’ are included because, when primitive experience is taken into consideration, they are not essentially non-experiential). A healthy pathway (physical, mental, communal, and spiritual) attends to needs and effective action individual, society, and world, in meditative, material, and immersive aspects of the dimensions on a path to the ultimate. A healthy life emphasizes the needs of the individual and society in this world and on the way to the ultimate. An enlightened path (i) seeks intelligent and shared negotiation (not just following received ways or masters) (ii) results in a replica – typically incomplete – of the ultimate in the being – body and mind – of the individual in ‘this’ life and rarely in the ultimate itself (iii) but is on the way to the ultimate and while realization is given, the enlightened path is efficient in realization of the ultimate as we cross from life to life, from form to form, amid the myriad of cosmoses, while dwelling in nothingness in between. Pleasure and pain (physical pain, doubt, anxiety) are unavoidable. The issues of pleasure and pain are addressed (i) pleasure for its own sake need not be avoided, but paths emphasize pleasure in being on the way—on the path (ii) by shared negotiation of pathways (in which leaders may arise but are not seen as absolute in truth) (iii) with therapy – the best therapy of the time (iv) by the able and fortunate giving aid to the less able or fortunate (v) by attention without obsession to healthy living – physical, mental, communal, and spiritual (vi) and above all that local enlightenment which avoids illusions of ideal perfection but seeks a pragmatic balance of pleasure and pain on shared paths—i.e., as far as reasonable, seeks process through and not around pain. The path of enlightenment is one of seeking balance and integration of emotion, reason (fact, inference), and action in interest (service) of self, community, world, and approach to peak being. Effective pathways address living in the immediate world on the way to the ultimate—they address the everyday and the universal, (and, as elaborated in the document outline of the way-new.docm), dimensions of being (i) at a high level the pure subject and object aspects of experience (ii) in the world, the pragmatic. Particularly included are (a) meditation, calming, analytic, and visionary (including an attempt to visualize and ways to actualize panbeing) (b) (yogic or) healthy living directed at individual, family, work, and community – local to global. Thus, enlightenment pertains to being in this world for the ultimate is not in need of enlightenment; in received religion, enlightenment is often thought to be a kind of ideal perfection; however, the real perfection emerged here sees it as a good to best mix of an idealized notion of perfection and the work – even struggle – of being on a path. The mix of (i) the ideal and the struggle vs perfection and (ii) negotiation vs following are two differences between the path described here and common received ways. As the worldview of the present system is ultimate, the paths here frame received pathways. The present system gives preference to those received pathways that see limited being as on the way to the ultimate rather than the ultimate as a remote reward. Still, all systems are recognized for symbolic and community value. The focus of an individual-as-individual-as-communal-and-for-discovery-and-realization is day routine and discipline including health issues – diet, mental and physical exercise, sleep, and physical and mental health concerns; preparation for the day – affirmation, dedication, sustaining a good attitude, setting times for activities; developing and living the way (‘their way’) – ideas, attention to self – meditative and physical; attention to community – social, political and economic, cultural, and spiritual – and networking; urgent action (if any); tasks; planned excursions and physical activity; evening review, preparation for the next day, relaxation, social activities; sleep. Planning – a sample – my current planning. The following is flexible (i) morning routine and tasks (ii) the way – foundation and transformation, with relationships and sharing (iii) urgent agenda – security, safety, push twb, zero now (iii) tasks and lunch (iv) exercise (v) pm routine (vi) sleep early. The templatesGeneral
Everyday template
Universal template
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