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Metaphysics Realization Resources Anil Mitra
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Path
templates and affirmation for the way of being ¢ Contact.
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Path templates for the way of
being
(this document is being replaced by templates and
dedication,
a document with the same name, but different content and a different
location)
Anil Mitra, Copyright © 2015 – 2024
Contents
Introduction. 2
Everyday template—home. 3
Everyday template—exploration, immersive. 4
Universal template. 5
Endnotes. 6
The templates
Conceptual
background
The
conceptual background will make use of the templates effective.
Some
conceptual background is in the endnotes.
A backup
of a longer, earlier version has more information in its endnotes.
Especially
see metaphysics, realization, beyul
(search for bookmark “Beyul”), meditation
and yoga, received
ways of being, and dimensions
of being. You may find the resources
useful.
Versions of the
document
There
is an adaptable MS word edition of this document,
which you can download and fashion to suit your needs.
Previous
versions are in a backup folder (directory).
The most recent backup is that of October
8, 2023.
The printable
templates
The three
printable templates are—every-day, home,
every-day, exploration,
and universal.
Everyday template—home
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Everyday activities1—individual
and group
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1.
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Rise early2—before
the sun, dedicate3
to the way and its aim, affirm
the universal nature of being. Morning reflection in nature. Breakfast.
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2.
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Meditative-contemplative review4
of priorities and plans—the way, life, the day. Reflect on realization,
priorities, and means; employ simple reflection
Shamatha—calming meditation for
re-orientation of purpose and energy—to experiential transformation toward
oneness. Vipasana—analytical to visionary meditation—to see what is
essential now and in other time frameworks.
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3.
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Realization—work; care and
relationships—networking; ideas and action; experimental and
structured yoga-exercise-meditation-share in practice and in action; engagement
in the world—languages, art, and other activities.
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4.
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Tasks—daily and long term; midday meal. Attitude—in
tasks and toward others and the world—an element of realization; light;
yoga in action. Merge with Realization.
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5.
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Physical activity—exercise and exploration
of the worlds of nature5 and culture6
for experience and inspiration; photography.
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6.
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Afternoon7
tasks, planning-preparation-dedication for the next day and future. Evening8
rest, renewal, review; shower, supper; options—meditation, realization,
network, and community. Sleep early.
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Everyday
template—exploration, immersive
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Item
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Time
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Everyday activities
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Rise early—dedicate
to the way and its aim, affirm
the universal nature of being. Breakfast.
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2.
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Meditative-contemplative review of plans for the
day.
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Exploration—exercise and immersion in nature
or society and culture or both—aimed at sharing and learning toward the
immediate and the ultimate
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Tasks—needs for the travel, place to stay, exploration;
midday meal. Attitude—toward others and the world—an element of
realization; light; yoga in action. Merge with Realization.
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5.
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Exploration continued—exercise and
exploration of the worlds of nature and culture for experience and
inspiration; photography.
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6.
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Evening—network, supper,
planning-preparation-dedication for the next day(s), review, rest,
meditation, renewal, network. Sleep early.
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Universal
template
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Dates9
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Dimensions of being and transformation10, 11
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1.
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Being in the world12—Dimensions:
Pure being, yoga, meditation, immersion13,
ideas to action; Community, education (general, paradigm, ways
of life), retreat to the real, renewal, development-reemphasis of paradigm.
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2.
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Ideas14—Dimensions: relation, knowing
as relation to the world, reason, art; acting—effective creation of
the real. Means—reason, imagination, meditation and yoga, and the real
metaphysics.
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3.
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Becoming—immersive, intrinsic, and instrumental
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Dimension15: nature as catalyst to the real.
Animal being and devolution—observation, situational empathy,
defocus, reason.
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ii.
Dimension16: society. Civilization as
vehicle and path to the real. Transformation via
psyche—by immersion in social groups as place of being and catalyst to the
real.
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iii. Dimension17:
artifact. Civilizing the universe (especially technology as
enhancing being in the universe)—universe as peak consciousness via spread
of sapient being.
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iv. Dimension18:
universal, incompletely known. The common way from self to Being (Atman to
Brahman), via the block universe19 and extended secular worlds
consistent with experience of and in the world20.
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4.
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Being in the universe—Dimension21:
universal. Realizing Peak Being (Brahman) in the present. Said to be rarely
achieved in ‘this life’ which is a beginning that is continued beyond
death. Outcome of items 1 to 3. The means are in the previous dimensions,
the everyday templates above, and
open to discovery.
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Endnotes
1 Summary. Rise before the sun > review and plan the
way, life, the day > realization—work, relationships, yoga, engage the
world > tasks, meals, yoga in action > physical activity, exploration
of culture and nature > evening rest, renewal, meditation, realization,
networking, tasks, supper, preparation for the next day and future > sleep
early.
2 Explanation. Rising before the world, enables looking at
the world as special, sets a good tone for the day. It is an efficient use of
daylight.
3 Dedication and
affirmation—the headings and explanations on the right are not said; the
first line of each paragraph on the left is said boldly, while the next lines
are said in response.
Dedication
I dedicate
my life to (The Way of) Being
to living in the immediate and the
ultimate as one.
What does ‘living in the immediate and the ultimate as
one’ mean?
How is it known to be true and good?
How is it to be lived—
and how is the ultimate to be realized?
The Way or Means
To
its shared discovery and realization
under pure and pragmatic dimensions of
experiential being in form and formation as the world on the way to the
transparently limitless ultimate.
In the real metaphysics, the universe is shown to be limitless,
which follows from the properties of the void as containing no law.
It follows that all beings are limitless
and merge in universal identity
in this life or beyond,
for limits, especially birth and death, are found real but not absolute.
(What we think of as a limit of logic is contra-diction
and,
therefore, not a real limit.)
The universe is found to have experiential identity
of which we are a part and, therefore
there are paths to peak identity in this life or beyond.
The effective path is not just the followed path,
but the one that is negotiated by individuals,
shared, and with inspiration from tradition.
The means are the aware and object sides of experience—
‘mind and matter’.
I.e., rational, quiet, and contemplative meditation…
and instrumental action in this world, this cosmos,
and beyond.
To follow a path is enjoyment itself,
but pain is unavoidable.
The best address of pain is to be on a shared path,
with healing.
While there are no ultimate limits,
there are many contingent limits.
Beyond these there are personal limits,
the result of fear, anxiety, and so on,
that block path process.
The Path
To
shedding bonds of limited self
so that I / we may see the way so clearly
that even in difficulty life is flow over force—to moving toward positive
light.
Approaches to shedding the bonds are
(i) affirmation of identity of self and peak Being,
(ii) for the bond itself—seeing, meditative acceptance,
forgiveness, attempt to consciously let go,
healthy living—exercise (yoga), diet, sleep,
and adequate but not excessive routine
and organization of possessions and affairs,
(iii) balance of healing with path negotiation.
Summation
To
realizing the ultimate in this life and beyond—
the process version of the transcendent ‘living in the immediate and the
ultimate as one’.
Affirmation—
Ritual reminder of identity of
self and Being
“That pure unlimited
consciousness—transcending all principles of form… that is supreme reality.
That is the ground for the establishment of all things—and that is the
essence of the universe. By That the universe lives and breathes, and That
alone am I. Thus, I embody and am the universe in its ordinary and most
transcendent form.” Abhinav Gupta, 10th century philosopher and mystic
of Kashmir.
Identity of every being with the being
of the universe
follows from the limitlessness of the void and, therefore,
of every being, including the universe.
This identity can be known, but is not clearly manifest
in individual lives. It becomes manifest in a mode
beyond limited time.
Groundlessness of being
Every
being is, grounds, and reflects all being—
—roughly in present limited form, but fully and precisely in ultimate form.
The void and therefore every being is
generative of all being(s);
which becomes manifest in a mode beyond time.
4 Explanation. This Vipasana meditation may be
unstructured. The extent of the review depends on need. An accumulation of
expectation and planning may occasion extensive review, perhaps of a few
hours to days.
5 For nature. Beyul—a
tradition of Tibetan Buddhism is travel and being in nature, sometimes to
remote places, in search of extended experience of self and the ultimate,
with openness to inspiration. Nature photography.
6 For culture. Experience traditions for learning and
impact on identity.
7 Explanation. Review for improvement. Plan and layout the
next day for efficiency and to preserve productive time.
8 Explanation. Review for improvement. Plan and layout the
next day for efficiency and to preserve productive time.
9 Phase of development and execution. Time frameworks for items 2
and 3 may be set.
10 Summary. Being-in-the-world—pure,
community, retreat. | Ideas—reason, metaphysics, action. | Becoming—nature,
society, artifact, and beyond (the incompletely known universe) as catalysts
and path to the real. | Being-in-the-universe—realizing
Peak Being in the present or beyond death—means: the previous items (being,
ideas, becoming) the everyday
templates, and open.
11 Most individuals and groups whose emphasis is realization,
will follow items 1, 3 (iv), and 4; they will make selections from the
others; they may make additions of their own choosing. For meditation and
yoga, see the everyday templates.
12 Details. (a) Pure being here and now… being as if
timeless and without restriction to place in the present—means: everyday
(everyday template) process is bridges the immediate-ultimate (b) Sangha
or community—a spiritual home and sharing community (home and
community are ground to truth which gives back to normative truth in Sangha)
means: building
community and civilization (c) Retreat for vision quest and
experience of Being.
13 Immersion begins with focus on first order experience,
i.e., defocus on experience of experience—and, thus, defocus on self.
14 Explanation. Ideas are the first—and final—place
of being, significance, and action; and are instrumental in realization.
15 Details. Nature, psyche, and their interactions;
immersion in nature as a place of being and catalyst to the real. Effect on
culture and understanding of the universal.
Sources. Nature
as ground for the real and renewal—with focus on nature as gateway. Beyul, quest
for the real, as in Tibetan Buddhism.
Explanation
and details.
Nature is inspiration as essential place of and
portal to Being, catalyst to meditation and ideas. Life in nature exemplifies
being (a useful reflection is—on the Being of land, plants, and animals and
to know that Being is illuminative of self and attained not just by
meditation but also in immersion, for which one beginning is defocus on
experience of experience and focus on earth, sky, trail, and plant and animal
worlds). Meditation (yoga) is an intrinsic way to centered and transformative
attitude in this world and shedding limitations (bondage) of self and growing
into the universal.
16 Details. Civilization and society as vehicle and path to the real (culture and its dimensions; instrumental and
immersive politics and economics). Transformation of individuals via
psyche—by travel and immersion in social groups, informal and institutional
or formal, as place of being and catalyst to the real. Informal—self,
family, community, and world. Institutional aspects—(i) accessing the
range of social and cultural institutions of society (from earlier:
political, economic, technological, military, academic or research and
education, artistic and religious) (ii) building specific institutions for
realization and community. One beginning of political immersion is
seeing politics not as institutionalized, but as individual and common
endeavor toward individual and common goals, particularly with defocus on
state and focus on individual action and effective levels of individual and
group action.
Sources. The system
of human knowledge—is a guide to secular and transsecular elements of
local through global action. Meditation is (self) guide to shedding bonds of
self and to action. For instrumental transformation of society see political
and cultural economics.
Details—immersion. The
individual does not stand outside the world as just objective
observer and commentator. The individual as experiential-relational
being is key. Engagement may begin at any point in a cycle of self and social
awareness > speaking one’s truth and action > group action and Sangha
> re-form (self, other, world). Self and world awareness are essential to
the cycle and an effective place to begin—
Details—attitude. Awareness
of self and limitation—and to openly aim at the highest in this life and
beyond (and recognition of poverty of exclusively secular and exclusively
dogmatic). Cultivation of attitude in meditation-yoga-practice.
Details—problems, challenges, and
opportunities of the world. A crucial problem is that of the nature of
the world. The real metaphysics is true and illuminating. However, since
there are so many views, many held passionately, there will be natural
resistance. One default that may be found acceptable is a limited secular
view. This, however, presents a paradox—because world views are in conflict,
it promotes the least of them.
A
resolution is to hold to the real metaphysics but speak it where effective;
this is perhaps the minimal resolution consistent with truth. Thus, the truth
may illuminate the world of problem and opportunity. Another problem is to
identify the problems and opportunities.
Some
common approaches identify only the material problems such as war, hunger and
so on). Such approaches are limited (a) in identifying only material
problems, but not the entire range of challenges and opportunities, material
and other (b) in not identifying the world political-economy as key to
resolution of the issues and therefore a problem-opportunity in itself.
Approaches
to political-economy are (i) the way politics and economics are done (ii) the
science and practice of politics and economics (iii) related philosophy, not
ideological per se, that identifies the nature or kind of thing (referent)
that politics-economics is (iv) immersion via reflection, meditation, and
action in politics-economics by the individual.
Sources. For problems etc, see challenges
and opportunities in journey
in being.
17 Explanation. Artifact has potential as sapient
being, reservoir of our being, and auxiliary in our search for intrinsic
and instrumental being (e.g., the spread of ideas and civilization).
Details. Artifactual being as realized
being and as adjunct (science and technology of advanced civilization on the
way to the ultimate; use of computation and networking in realization—as
adjunct and as independent identity). Address of pain via modern medicine and
therapy, supplemented by what is good in the traditions, is important to
individuals and realization by civilization—either in part or in whole.
Sources. See system
of human knowledge, reason, practice, and action, for artifactual
being.
18 Explanation. The path to Being. Where secular and
transsecular paradigms visualize completeness or impossibility of
completeness, there is neither completeness nor impossibility. This action is
on the way to the ultimate.
Details. Transformation aimed at the
universal deploys catalysts and ways and their conceptual and experimental
development under the real metaphysics, for the transformation of
being-civilization. The use of the catalysts and ways is in everyday process,
renewal, knowledge, and technology.
Sources. See dynamics,
catalysts and catalytic states, and ways
and catalytic states.
19 The block universe, here, is a description of the universe as a
block over all change. From the real metaphysics, there are many histories
intersecting at each being. It is via these converging and diverging
histories that the beings merge with Being and one
another.
20 Via the real metaphysics it is shown that the universe as Being
and individuals as beings are essentially and not just contingently
experiential. It is the experientiality that merges and diverges as described
in the previous note. And it is thus, that identities merge with Being and
communicate across lives and deaths.
21 “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all
our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the
first time.”—T.S. Elliot.
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