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a temporary document anil mitra, © 12/14/2025 Contents Document purpose and implementation Occasion, problem, opportunity Design of pathways and programs Design and planning—principles Preliminary design for the pathways chapter
Document purpose and implementation Document purpose and criteriaPurpose—redesign pathwaysTo improve the pathways chapter from the way of being - master.docm This may entail some improvement the other chapters of the master document Criteria1. Simplicity of structure and language, 2. Rationality—particularly to derive the pathways from the real metaphysics, experience, and what is useful in traditional systems, and 3. To make transparent the process of shared discovery and realization with balance of cognition, emotion (especially pleasure and pain), choice, and action. On design and planningOccasion, problem, opportunityIdeaRefinement and functional specificationSolutionIdeaExisting solutions, methodology, and elementsInitial design (outline) and refinementImplementation with planDesign of pathways and programsThe designOccasionIdeaRealization of the ultimate (or ultimates). Refinement and functional specificationState detailed aim and perhaps dedication. From the metaphysics (inclusive of our being), which shows aspects of the immediate and the ultimate, to find or develop and realize shared ways to the ultimate for, in, and from our world. SolutionIdeaAbove Existing solutionsThe way of beingAlready existing pathways. TraditionWorld views and endeavors. ElementsThe existing solutions aboveFlexibility and adaptability to a range of person types, cultures, and situationsThe metaphysical framework covers a universal range. Adaptability is built into the concept of aware / enlightened living / pathways. It is especially built into the programs The categorial elementsAs both being and process, inclusivity and flexibility are built in here as well. The four aspectsIs it four? That the design should have being and becoming – being in the world and process toward the ultimatePathways (being in the world)—enlightened, aware Programs (local, global) NegotiationWhereas many traditions ancient to today prescribe ideas and ways, these too are under negotiation. That the path itself involves both ways (roughly prescribed) and negotiation. Sharing and therapyLeadershipPleasure, pain, cognition, and attitudeThe ‘full’ elements of mind are in the categories TermsYoga, binding, mind, minding Dedication and affirmationPay attention to this in what items to include and their sequence The system of human knowledgeHas a range of what’s in the world and provides activities that people can undertake for their own meaning—individually and collectively. Site source 1. …a system of knowledge.html. SourcesSite source 2. journey in being – pathway design, received ways of realization, design and planning.html for possible further sources Site source 3. The master document—previous material through knowledge, emphasizing the real metaphysics, ethics and meaning, categories Site source 4. Traditions of material (physical, technological) and experiential (self, world) exploration Comment 1. Modify to reflect world É material. The PathwaysProgramsResourcesPrinciples and designDesign and planning—principlesDesign and its levels What is design?To design is to formulate a plan or concept in response to a need, opportunity, occasion—of any kind but typically for an object, process, or system. Designing may be 1. Informal, small scale, ‘on the fly’, or 2. Large scale—pertaining to an organization, systematic, and explicit. 3. For (i) the entity being designed in levels of detail up to that of a build (ii) possibly the building (‘production’). Design of design (meta)Design of design. Principle—reason and action. A model of designProblem—the need or occasion. Solution approaches—reflection, creation, criticism, repetition. Preliminary implementation—ideas and conceptual solutions, theoretical and experimental models, preliminary builds and reviews. Final review. Execution or build. Preliminary design for the pathways chapterProblemSynthesis of principles and their polarity-v-continuum in pathways SolutionEnlightened-pathways-and-quality v immediate-to-ultimate-process-or-programs ImprovementInstrumental and immanent metaphysics (ontology, ethics, and meaning) in effective combination. Elements and implicationsPrinciples of metaphysicsCategorial system and dynamicsSimilar to classical categories of being, these range from levels above the classical down to our world, and thus constitute a metaphysical hierarchy of categorial (‘kinds’) and explanatory (‘dynamics’) inclusivity. System with dynamicsUniverseReal metaphysics—synthesis of ideal metaphysics (limitlessness) and pragmatic knowledge (experiential), which overlap. Experiential nonbeing – being – becoming with axiology (especially ethics) and meaning (details: active and receptive experience, the concept and object sides, oneness of being v process; immanence-v-explicitness-of-principles-including-meta). Dynamics—(structures that comply with) logic. Form (intermediate between the universe and worlds)Abstract form transcends and includes temporal formation and spatial form. Dynamics—transients (arising from the void), of which some are more persistent as a result of symmetry and therefore stability, of which some effectively populate the universe in their experiential reflexivity. Our world – and its general paradigms as dynamicsPhysical—mechanism (determinism with indeterminism) and causation. Complexity—form, emergence, and evolution – variation and selection (a case of formation). Mind – its concept (cognition, feeling, choice) and object (‘matter – body – world’) sides – and approach from our world to the universal Society and culture – competition, cooperation, and amplification of the power of mind, with technology of space and mind exploration. ImplicationsEnlightened and effective pathwaysAttitude, cognition-feeling-choice (and action and will); pleasure, pain (‘suffering’), and their address. Sharing and negotiationFrom our incompleteness, the pathway(s) will be negotiated and shared, the fortunate and strong will aid others, therapy will be available, and there may be leaders and elements of received ways, but no a priori ultimate authority. Tradition and implications for traditionEssence Optional elements Design: structurePathways (emphasis enlightenment in the present)Emphasis: enlightenment, quality, immediate and ultimate as one, immanence of principles Transformation of experienceMind, body; emphasis beings and the immediate (here, now) Yoga Transformation in extensionImmersive, instrumental; emphasis: being, the way to the ultimate Programs—emphasis: process in, for, and from the immediateConsiderations include (i) realization-here-now vs process toward the ultimate and their mesh (ii) degree of explicitness of principles of earlier material, especially the real metaphysics. BeingCategorial emphasis: ultimate, universal in time and space, experiential being and nonbeing with ethics and meaning. Action: sequence with timelines Beings and communityExplicit categorial emphasis: local (here-now), home (and away), daily, short term, our world § Instrumental—engagement via action. § Immersive—yoga in practice and action. Action—planning in dimensions of being with daily routines for home and away. Immediate and ultimate as one – yogaThe two sides of yoga are the two sides of experience – meditative (subjective, inner, of mind, immersive) and physical (objective which also has a representation of the meditative, outer as metaphor for world and body, instrumental) Attitude, pleasure – pain – cognition – intelligence Becoming one’s highest self – overcoming limited self (in balance with communal morality) And yoga has more than one aspect – practice of the disciplines of yoga, practice to action, and yoga in action including immersion Individual and community – emphasis: beingsRealizing – sharing
(co-action, the strong helping others), Communal action – therapy, work and productivity (economic, political, knowledge, shared understanding of realization), relationships Design: writing itFlesh out the outline below Write and import—introduce t > d, c > o, more detail, definitions and results (style Main-mini – Ctrl + 9) IntroductionWhy pathways?Implementing the aim of the way Aim in universal termsShared discovery and realization of the ultimate in, for, and from the immediate. Aim in process termsRealization of the ultimate in this life and beyond. What are pathways?Given incompleteness in being or feeling, Definition 01. A pathway is a way to completion in one or both of (i) experiencing of completion in the immediate (ii) a way of experience, reflection, and action toward real completion (given the developments so far, the complete is the ultimate). PathwaysImmediate and ultimate as oneProcessProgramsResources
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