Tag: Immediate Cognition
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Christianity Beyond Symbols – 7: The Last Revelation — The End of Symbol, the Appearing of Truth
“I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.”— Revelation 21:22 “The city has no need of sun or moon… for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.”— Revelation 21:23 “There shall be no night there.”— Revelation 21:25 No…
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Christianity Beyond Symbols – 2: The Veil and the Light — Law, Symbol, and the Coming of Presence
“The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ,that we might be justified by faith.But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.”— Galatians 3:24–25 “We all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.”— 2 Corinthians 3:18 The…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 8
Love, Effortlessness, and the Unshaken Self Throughout this series, we have explored the nature of contemplative seeing—the immediate recognition of reality beyond the conditioned patterns of thought. We now turn to three interwoven aspects of this recognition: the paradox of effort and non-effort, the realization of love as the ground of being, and the abiding…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 1
The Immediate Encounter – Discovering the Ground of Being In moments of stillness—whether fleeting or sustained—there arises the possibility of encountering something profound: the immediate, unmediated appearance of truth. This is not a concept or an intellectual insight but a direct recognition beyond thought, beyond the pull of becoming. It is a moment where reality…
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Mind & Heart – 10: The Direct Appearing: Intuition, Experience, and Recognition
Moments of Unified Awareness Beyond the fragmentation of thought and feeling lies a third mode of knowing—one that neither reduces reality to concepts nor dissolves it into mere sentiment. This is the mode of direct appearing, the immediate awareness of necessity that is neither mediated by reasoning nor subject to emotional instability. Such recognition can…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 3 – The Meditative Unveiling—Silence and Direct Cognition
Introduction Beyond ordinary thought lies an experience often described as silence, emptiness, or direct awareness. Many spiritual traditions have pursued states of being that transcend discursive thought, believing them to reveal a deeper reality. But what actually occurs when thought is suspended? Does the absence of conditioned thinking bring one closer to Being itself, or…
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