Design and planning
for
the way of being

Anil Mitra, Copyright © July 2025

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Main parts

There are currently two parts—

Design and planning

Modified outline for the way of being - essential

 

Design and planning

Contents

Planning

Immediate

In the world

Design

Site structure

Document system – sources for styles

Styles

 

Design and planning

Planning

Immediate

See ..\..\2022\theway\my life\daily routine ii.docm.

1.    Complete a simple home page,

2.    Make an outline for the open document—the way of being.docm.

In the world

Work on and chisel the documents in the previous section.

Work on the mid-length essays (see design).

Chisel the content of the detailed site resources.

Database?

Design

Site structure

Root directory

File(s)—home (index.html for web and mobile), optional – essays for web and mobile (i) open (ii) essential (iii) mini

Sub-directories

Main sub-directory

The optional essays above may be placed here

Possible—mid-length essays with different emphases or slants, e.g. general (easy reading), realization emphasis, and academic or conceptual emphasis.

Design and planning

Printables

Affirmation, dedication, etc – word doc, html, and pdf

Print versions of the essays

Main content resources for writing

The main content documents with material to incorporate in the essays

Import snippets to this directory?

Detailed site resources for writing

Main
Recent content for the current essays

§  content folder

Received ways

§  the way.docm (html) (folder) – i.e., ‘traditional ways’ [for yoga and some details on world religions]

System of human knowledge

§  a system of knowledge.docm (html) (folder)

§  a system of knowledge-supplement.docm (html) (folder)

Design documents

§  the world.pdf (folder) – ‘my program’

§  program for the way of being.docm (html) (folder)

§  design.docm (html) (folder) ‘site design’

Essentials

§  the way of being-plain.docm (html) (folder) especially [the preview]

Long and resource versions

§  journey in being.docm (html) (folder) [‘resource version 2021’]

§  little manual.docm (html) (folder) has material on dialetheia and the source of logic; has a vocabulary for metaphysics and the way [useful]

Secondary

These documents are of lesser relevance to the way of being but not of lesser general importance

General

§  metaphysics and vocabulary for the way.docm (html) (folder)

§  what is philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

§  toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

§  necessity of being.docm (html) (folder) being founded in itself – in absolute necessity

§  dimensions of being, experience, and the world.docm  (html) (folder) dimensions and paradigms of being and experience

§  language for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder) part of the little manual (html) (folder) (see above)

§  journey in being.docm#lexicon (html) (folder) [earlier lexicon]

§  Principles of Reason (html) (folder) has some thoughts toward method

§  Journey in Being (html) (folder) has a lexicon and a history of the metaphysics, which may be useful to the lessons

§  Realization--resource version (html) (folder) more on history and another lexicon

§  The Way of Being (html) (folder) has a brief glossary

§  fundamental paradigms for metaphysics.docm (html) (folder)

Special

§  abstract objects.docm (html) (folder)

§  dialetheia.docm (html) (folder)

§  the year.docm (html) (folder) ‘journal 2024’ has further material on dialetheia and planning an essay on dialetheia

§  god.docm (html) (folder) a conception of god as (i) arising from the real metaphysics (ii) immanent (iii) a becoming of which all beings are a part

§  the way of being – database.docm (html) (folder) preliminary to a database of concepts and more

§  world problems and opportunities.docm (html) (folder) – this has been extracted from journey in being.docm (html) (folder)

Historical

§  journey in being.docm (html) (folder) – original version of 2002 – 2003

§  archive of old documents – folder

Site resources for readers

Supplements and references for the essays, e.g., the little manual and system of human knowledge

Document system – sources for styles

Absorb styles from this document or the way of being - essential.docm to all functional documents.

For mini-print of essays use print\the way of being-print.dotm

Styles

By significance

General

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style for headings and content not to appear in short versions

General – Alt + G – geared to general reader

Base – Alt + B – currently similar to General

Essential

Central – Alt + M – core material

Main – Alt + Z – important

Realization

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – possible use for detail geared to realization

Academic

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 – subsidiary concepts

Definition – Alt + F

Meta

Comment 1.          Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

External source or topic 1.        Source or study topic – Alt + V

Site source 1.               Site source – Alt + W

Alphabetic

Academic – Alt + A – geared to academic reader

Academic 2 – Alt + Shift + G – possible use for detailed academic material

Base – Alt + B – currently similar to General

Central – Alt + M – core material

Comment 2.          Comment – Alt + C – multi-function (i) possible TWB text (ii) general comments, design, things to do

Concepts – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + C – main concepts

Concepts 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + 2 – subsidiary concepts

Definition – Alt + F

Detail – Ctrl + Shift + H – character style for headings and content not to appear in short versions

General – Alt + G – geared to general reader

Heading N – Alt + N – N is a numeral from 1 to 9

Main – Alt + Z – important

Normal – Alt + N – for general use when a specific purpose has not been identified, especially in an essential version

Normal Detail – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + D – for detail to be transferred to another document

Normal Indent – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + I – for detail without purpose

Realization – Alt + R – geared to realization

Realization 2 – Alt + Ctrl + Shift + R – possible use for detail geared to realization

Site source 2.               Site source – Alt + W

External source or topic 2.        Source or study topic – Alt + V

Modified outline for the way of being - essential

Contents

Temporary preface with notation

What is new about the outline – a temporary chapter

The organization of ‘Into the way of being’

Details have been introduced for ‘experience’ and ‘return’

In ‘experience’ reasons for deferred treatment have been given

‘Consequences for knowledge’ has been changed to ‘Consequences of the metaphysics for knowledge

The consequences for knowledge have been introduced in the main development and the main headings are marked in red (pending introduction to the essay on the essentials)… and a comment on this change noted in the section on consequences

Into the Way of being

About the way of being

About this chapter

Acceptance, seeking, and knowledge

Normal or received worldviews and their limits

The essence of the way

Sources

Reading The way of being for insight and understanding

Definitions

Knowledge and argument

Being and beings

Being

The universe and its contents

Cosmoses

Laws

The void and its existence

A paradox?

Possibility

The concept of possibility

Conceptual or logical possibility

Real possibility

Impossibility, necessity

Possible worlds

Limitlessness of the universe

Some main consequences

All beings

The void

Metaphysics

An ideal metaphysics

Real metaphysics

Robust worlds

Metaphysics and philosophy**

Concrete and abstract objects**

Dialetheia (and emptiness)**

Knowledge**

Experience

The fundamental nature of experience and reasons for its deferred treatment

The concept of experience

There are experience and experience of experience

We are experiential beings

The form of experience

The world is the object of and includes experience

The universe is experiential

Yoga

Categories

Introduction

On categories

The categories

Cosmology**

General cosmology

Cosmology of form and formation

Cosmology of experiential being

Physical cosmology

Ethics

Doubt and certainty

On certainty

Doubt and its use

General doubt

Doubt in the way of being

Consequences of the metaphysics for knowledge

Metaphysics and related topics

Cosmology

Pathways and programs

Path structure and contents

Pathways

Programs

Resources

Return

On the return—a complement to ‘Into the way of being’

The focus

Continued development of The way of being

Retreat and renewal

Perception

Universal text—synthesis of the history of ideas

 

The Modified outline

Temporary preface with notation

There is further information in the way of being - essential.docm (html) and documents in the content folder.

Chapters and sections marked with a double star** are new (only main headings are so marked).

Headings in the outline are demoted one level for convenience here; when exported to the open document, they will be re-promoted.

What is new about the outline – a temporary chapter

The organization of ‘Into the way of being’

Details have been introduced for ‘experience’ and ‘return’

In ‘experience’ reasons for deferred treatment have been given

‘Consequences for knowledge’ has been changed to ‘Consequences of the metaphysics for knowledge

The consequences for knowledge have been introduced in the main development and the main headings are marked in red (pending introduction to the essay on the essentials)… and a comment on this change noted in the section on consequences

Into the Way of being

About the way of being

About this chapter

Full meaning and careful development are left to the main text.

Acceptance, seeking, and knowledge

Normal or received worldviews and their limits

The essence of the way

The worldview and some consequences

Relation to received views

Possible worlds

Sources

Reading The way of being for insight and understanding

Keep the big picture in mind

Meanings

Holism

Sequence of development

On definitions
The place of knowledge

Argument and the idea of knowledge guide understanding and knowledge.

Yet, argument, knowledge, and the world are one.

From the abstract-perfect-and-truth to the concrete-pragmatic-and-value
Metaphysics before experience
Experience before categories
From being and beings, to possibility, to necessity
From principles to details (of knowledge and world)
From metaphysics to action and realization (pathways)
From the world to the way to return to the world
Repeated topics and emergence of ideas

Notation

Definitions

Knowledge and argument

Being and beings

Being

The universe and its contents

Cosmoses

Laws

The void and its existence

A paradox?

Possibility

The concept of possibility

Conceptual or logical possibility

Real possibility

Impossibility, necessity

Possible worlds

Limitlessness of the universe

Some main consequences

All beings

The void

Metaphysics

An ideal metaphysics

Real metaphysics

Robust worlds

Metaphysics and philosophy**

Site source 1.   what is philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

Site source 2.   toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

Being and substance

Against proliferation of categories.

Objects and beings

Metametaphysics including how to do metaphysics and philosophy

Comment 3.          This topic is currently also in consequences of the metaphysics for knowledge.

Comment 4.          Note that it is effective to have done some metaphysics to do it effectively, and so far as the process is incomplete, axiomatizations are tentative.

Concrete and abstract objects**

Site source 1.   abstract objects.docm (html) (folder)

Dialetheia (and emptiness)**

Site source 1.   dialetheia.docm (html) (folder)

Site source 2.   the year.docm (html) (folder) ‘journal 2024’ has further material on dialetheia and planning an essay on dialetheia

Site source 3.   little manual.docm (html) (folder) has material on dialetheia and the source of logic; has a vocabulary for metaphysics and the way [useful]

Knowledge**

What knowledge is

Criteria of validity and axiology.
Intentional picture theory – its domain of application despite its twofold limit.

Method

Method and content are one
Discovery and justification

A system of knowledge based in the metaphysics

Site source 1.   a system of knowledge.docm (html) (folder)

Site source 2.   a system of knowledge-supplement.docm (html) (folder)

Site source 3.   toward a database for philosophy.docm (html) (folder)

Introduction – aim, framework, and system
Disciplines and meta-disciplines
World and knowledge as a unity
Oneness of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and axiology
Ground
The universe and the world
Creative being – design and artifact
The ultimate

Implications for epistemology

Universal narrative

On universal narrative
Writing and updating universal narrative

Experience

The fundamental nature of experience and reasons for its deferred treatment

The concept of experience

There are experience and experience of experience

We are experiential beings

The form of experience

The world is the object of and includes experience

The universe is experiential

Yoga

Categories

Introduction

On categories

The categories

The level of being – the category of experiential being

High-level – subject–relation–object

Intermediate – form and formation

Our world – mind, nature, and their unity

Cosmology**

General cosmology

What is cosmology?

Theory

Computational general cosmology

Generating possibilities of being for the universe

Also see sections on ‘possible worlds’.

A theory of form and cause

Abstract and concrete objects

Also see the same topic under ‘metaphysics’

Cosmology of form and formation

Cosmology of experiential being

No kind beyond experience but there are grades of experience from root to peak.

Hierarchy of experiential being

In a hierarchy of being, there is nothing beyond experiential (aware, conscious) being, but there is a hierarchy of being in terms of degrees of experientiality and power of being (transformation); this has been observed earlier.

Description of peak being

Identity, spacetime-being, and property

Starting with the primitive experience of sameness and difference, the concept and nature of identity, spacetimebeing, and property may be derived; and that there is no kind of extension beyond spacetime.

Alternative physical cosmologies

Also see generating possibilities of being for the universe, just below.

Physical cosmology

Essential physical theory

Standard cosmology and alternatives

Ethics

Doubt and certainty

On certainty

Doubt and its use

General doubt

Doubt in the way of being

Consequences of the metaphysics for knowledge

The details of the consequences are dispersed in the text and a summary is—

Metaphysics and related topics

Metaphysics and philosophy

Metametaphysics including how to do metaphysics and philosophy

Comment 5.          Note that it is effective to have done some metaphysics to do it effectively, and so far as the process is incomplete, axiomatizations are tentative.

Concrete and abstract objects.

Dialetheia (and emptiness)

Knowledge

Cosmology

Pathways and programs

Path structure and contents

Enlightened pathways

Effective pathways

Immediate and ultimate as one

Sharing

Negotiation

Leadership

Attitude

Good attitude

Maintaining and resetting attitude

Affirmation

Dedication

Death and destruction

Dimensions of health

Pleasure and pain

Therapy and sharing

Direct address of pain

Attention to a path; meaning of pain

Traditions

Programs

Being (the world and beyond)

Design

Ideas and foundation

Practice and retreat

Nature as place of being and of inspiration

Society and culture

Artifact

Universal

Beings (and community)

Design

Morning, first things

The way

Afternoon

Evening

Resources

Pathways

Enlightened pathways

Effective pathways
Immediate and ultimate as one
Sharing
Negotiation
Leadership

Attitude

Good attitude
Maintaining and resetting attitude
Recognition
Acknowledgment
Defusion
Affirm
Return
Affirmation
Dedication
Death and destruction

Dimensions of health

Pleasure and pain

Therapy and sharing
Direct address of pain
Attention to a path; meaning of pain

Traditions

Programs

Being (the world and beyond)

Design
Aim
Program
Ideas and foundation
Experience
Reading
Reflection
Synthesis
Writing
Publishing
Advertising
Practice and retreat
Nature as place of being and of inspiration
Society and culture
Political economy
Society and its elements
Artifact
Self-evolution
Exploration of mind and space
Synthesis of natural and artificial being
Universal
Yoga
Search for the ultimate

Beings (and community)

Design
Morning, first things
Every day

Affirmation and attitude

Review

Rise

Home
Away
The way
Foundation
Realization
Ground
Afternoon
Tasks
Exercise and excursion
Evening
Review
Network
Entertainment
Sleep early

Resources

Return

On the return—a complement to ‘Into the way of being’

The focus

Continued development of The way of being

Retreat and renewal

Perception

Universal text—synthesis of the history of ideas