The way of being

Plan

The way

Being

Universe

Cosmos

Law

Possibility

The void

Limitlessness

Metaphysics

Experience

Limitlessness of being

Real metaphysics

Dimensions of being

Paths

The way of being

Plan

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The way

The way of being is shared discovery and realization of the ultimate in and beyond our world.

Its sources are experience, action, reflection, and the history of human thought and endeavor.

To understand the narrative, (i) follow the meanings of terms as defined (ii) a second reading will aid clarification and seeing that the system of terms and assertions stand as a whole.

Being

A being is an existent; being is existence.

Universe

The universe is all being.

Cosmos

A cosmos is a causal domain whose interactions with the rest of the universe are presently negligible.

Our cosmos is the only cosmos observed or inferred by humans.

It is consistent with observation and reason for there to be limitlessly many actual worlds or cosmoses of limitless variety – i.e., for all possible worlds to be actual.

Law

A law is a summary reading of a pattern of behavior for a domain of phenomena up to the present limit of observation.

As they are immanent in the world, laws have being – i.e., laws are beings.

Possibility

Given an assertion about the world or cosmos, it may be in error (i) it is unrealizable for all possible worlds (ii) it is a mismatch with its intended object. Logic or logical possibility is the condition to for type #i errors to not obtain. Realism or real possibility, e.g. agreement with relevant laws, physical or other, is the condition that prevents type #ii errors.

Real possibility presumes logical possibility. Logical possibility is the most inclusive possibility – a description that violates logic is unrealizable in any possible world.

The void

The void is nothingness – the absence of being.

As existence and nonexistence of the void are equivalent, it may be said that the void exists.

Therefore The void is the being that contains no beings.

Particularly, since laws are beings, there are no laws of the void.

Limitlessness

If there were a logically possible being that did not emerge from the void, that would constitute a law of the void. Therefore, all logically possible beings emerge from the void. That is, the universe is the greatest possible in the sense that it contains all logical possibility.

The universe is limitless. It phases eternally between peak and dissolution. All beings unconditionally inherit this limitlessness – birth and death are real but not absolute.

There are efficient shared paths to the ultimate, which are a balance of reflection and action, emotion and thought, and pleasure and pain.

Value?

Metaphysics

The validity of These conclusions follows from abstraction such that what is distortable has been eliminated from the elementary objects (beings etc.) and inferences employed.

Metaphysics is knowledge of the real (the narrative so far is metaphysics)

The narrative so far is metaphysics – it is ideal metaphysics in that (i) it is based on abstraction (this does not mean that it is not real) (ii) it is a framework for detail (iii) it shows what will (may) be achieved but not how.

Experience

Experience is awareness in all its kinds and levels.

We are experiential beings—it is in experience that all significance registers and without experience we are effectively nonexistent

The structure of (an) experience is (a) ‘experience of’ – subject or as-if mind (b) ‘the experience’ or ‘the experiential relation’ (c) ‘the experienced’ – object or as-if material. In pure experience may be potential but are no real objects.

Here, matter and mind are not denied but are regarded here as ways of speaking about (an) experience.

The universe is effectively a field of experience – from limitlessness experientiality (i) experientiality cannot be pervasive but (ii) can reach down in primitive form to elementary objects (iii) is effectively pervasive as a subject-relation-object field.

Limitlessness of being

Combine the following with similar material in the earlier section ‘limitlessness’.

The universe has identity; the universe and its identity are limitless in extension, duration, variety, peak of being and variety of peak, and dissolution; all beings inherit this limitlessness (as they may be seen as adjoined to the void… and which is not contradictory as they merge in the ultimate); birth and death are real but not absolute – in birth we emerge from potential to which in death we return; if we do not see this in human form we can know it (as here) and there are higher forms in which we will see it – in the peaks we see and are all.

The following is repeated from the previous section.

There are efficient shared paths to the ultimate, which are a balance of reflection and action, emotion and thought, and pleasure and pain.

Real metaphysics

The ideal metaphysics above may be supplemented by paradigms, some pragmatic, of and from our cosmos. The ideal frames, illuminates, and guides the pragmatic; the pragmatic illustrates the ideal and is instrumental in showing pathways in, for, and from a world to the ultimate. The system is not perfectly faithful to the real but is the best instrument in realization and is therefore perfect relative to the value of realization toward the ultimate. The seamless join is named the ‘real metaphysics’.

Dimensions of being

Pure – the two sides of experience

Pragmatic – object – paradigms and dimensions from physical, life, and social science and psychology

Pragmatic – subject – exploration of and with mind – metaphysics (knowledge development) and meditation

Pragmatic – joint – yoga and exploration

Paths

Enlightened ways

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 ‘ordinary time’ (e.g., lives) 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.

A balance of emotion, reason, sharing, and action

Enlightenment seeks balance and integration of emotion, reason (fact, inference), and action in interest (service) of self, other, community, world, and approach to peak being.

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

Pleasure and pain (physical pain, doubt, anxiety) are unavoidable. The issues of pleasure and pain are addressed (i) in that 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 emotion (particularly pleasure and pain), reason, and action on shared paths—i.e., as far as reasonable, seeks process through and not around pain.

Effective pathways

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 and immediate in time to ultimate.

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.

About religion

As far as unjustified belief or disbelief are religious, most people who have a position on the truth of dogmatic religion are religious.

The path of the way is open to use of religion though not to its dogmatic insistence. We recognize two approaches in religion—one that emphasizes a relationship with a powerful divine element which may symbolically energize a positive life and another that emphasizes correct thought, speech, and action on the way to realization which may be mundane or universal.

The place of ways from tradition

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.

Path programs

The planning focus of an individual-as-individual-as-communal-and-for-discovery-and-realization is a flexible routine selected from options—(i) awaken early – affirmation of being, dedication to realization, meditation on sustaining an attitude of achievement and equilibrium with others through distraction and pain, review priorities and how and when to die; (ii) recognition of ground issues—safety, security, focus on the way, health issues (medications, diet, mental and physical exercise, sleep), and discipline; (iii) morning tasks—medications and treatments, open files to edit, walk – stretch – vitamins – breakfast – fluids, set times and reminders; (iv) developing and foundation for the way—ideas, experience, reflection, study, cowriting and editing, publishing, and presenting; (v) living the way (one’s way)—ideas, attention to self – meditative and physical, immersion in nature and the real, attention to community – social action (political-economic, of laws, technological, and cultural—knowledge development and transmission, tradition, art, religion), attention to spiritual being, relations and networking, acting roles; (vi) pressing and urgent action—being present to the real – emptiness now, security, safety, money, place, and pushing the way; (vii) daily and weekly tasks, lunch, review of plans and planning, preparation and planning for travel and immersion; (viii) exercise—aerobic, stretching, light weights; excursions and photography; (ix) evening rest and review, preparation for the next day, relaxation, social activities, networking; sleep early.

Summary—(i) morning routine and tasks (ii) the way – foundation and transformation, with relationships and sharing (iii) pressing and urgent agenda – emptiness now, security, safety, push twb (iii) tasks and lunch (iv) exercise (v) pm routine (vi) sleep early.