To better understand the ego we must understand the various levels of ego, or various egos at play. Here we do not refer to the ego as it is commonly referred to, as a purely negative and selfish aspect of the I. From a phenomenological standpoint we can distinguish between two kinds of egos that … More Egology I
*A must read for the contemplative seeker. The lives that we live in our everyday world are lived in toto with that world, i.e., the world, as we understand it, is part of what makes us who we think we are; and, conversely, the world is only what it is (what we think it is) … More The Shrouding Cover Called Human
World is a mirage in the gaze of the Onlooker. This world! This world is nothing but the gaze trapped in the maze of its own making. What is is truth dreaming it is man seeking the truth. The seeker must at once free the gaze that is entangled in its own fantasy, the world. … More The Holy Gaze
(The image is the famous Hubble Ultra-Deep Field.) We often demand miracles as proofs for the transcendental origin of the world; but in demanding so we are blind to the miracle in the fact of being and the act of demanding. Our mundane preoccupations eclipse the sense of wonder inherent in each moment and its … More The Parable of The Naked Man
What is the human receptacle but a prism that refracts the pure light of the One into the rainbow of infinite divine possibilities, the phenomenal world! This world is lit and known with the light of a consciousness that comes from without and passes through within man. Where I am not, the world too is … More The Sole Dweller of The Void
The Art of Effortless Meditation We often approach meditation with a purely utilitarian mindset; we like the way it feels. But meditation, in both eastern and western traditions, wasn’t originally designed as a means of intoxication but rather as a window toward self-transcendence and unity with the Godhead. Meditation as medication, as is often used, … More How To Meditate
We as we know ourselves are the products of our own beliefs. We as we should know ourselves are the holder of all beliefs, and hence essentially free and perfect. This world, this human constitution and history, is nothing but a hearsay. All that is is only accepted to be. The “I” which playfully entertains … More To Feel at Home While Living in The World
The Almighty is the substratum of the acts of cognition. From the standpoint of a radical empiricism, one yet concealed to the positive sciences, the brute fact of reality is: There is nothing but experience. If experience is divisible into distinct cognitive acts this divisibility is itself something experienced by a consciousness, the witness consciousness. Consciousness of … More The Act & The Almighty
Transcendental Phenomenology is a system of philosophy created by Edmund Husserl, the 20th century German philosopher. Phenomenology is the a priori science of experience: It studies experience without reference to assumptions posited by experience. Phenomenology considers experience in itself and without assuming anything about the reality or unreality of the contents of experience. The experience … More Transcendental Phenomenology: A Priori Science of Consciousness
This body and mind are there in the world along other objects of the world; they are there as the tree or the river that’s there; they have nothing to do with me; they were never mine to begin with. Traditionally we put the divide between us and the world at our bodies. The body … More Take it easy but never serious
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