Tag: Recognition
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Know Thyself – 4: Relational Beings: Love, Recognition, and the Eternal Other
“Where two or three are gathered in my name…”– not merely a number, but a revelation of Being-in-relation. If the modern self is imagined as a solitary project, the eternal self is not.We do not exist alone. We never have. The idea of relation is not an optional feature of human life, nor a later…
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Know Thyself – 3: The Myth of the Fluid Self: Desire, Gender, and the Collapse of Form
“I feel like I’m becoming who I really am.”– A common expression, but beneath it, a profound contradiction. In a world where identity has been severed from Being, where presence has dissolved into process, fluidity emerges as an ideal. To be fluid is to be free, unconstrained, endlessly open to becoming. This modern myth is…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 4: The Intimations of Destiny Within the Christian Tradition
How the Eternal Structure Continues to Emerge Despite centuries of metaphysical dualism, Christianity has never fully surrendered to nihilism. Even while shaped by a Platonic framework that casts the world as impermanent and the body as perishable, the Christian tradition has continued to bear witness to something more: the silent but insistent truth that what…
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The Last Dualism 4 – The Eternal Structure of Thought
Beyond Self, Ego, and Silence Modern non-duality often speaks of “going beyond thought.” Thought is treated as noise, as interference, as the domain of the ego. Silence is upheld as the pure state—the absence of self, of mind, of conceptual filters. Enlightenment, in this view, is the cessation of thought, or at least a radical…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 9
The Final Unveiling: Recognizing the Ground of Being As we bring this exploration to completion, we stand before a recognition that is both deeply familiar and profoundly transformative. Throughout history, the great traditions of religion, philosophy, and spirituality have pointed—though often in fragmented or contradictory ways—toward the same reality: the existence of a foundational ground…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 7
The Depth of Silence – Seeing Without Seeking There is a seeing that is not bound to the restless search for meaning, control, or security. It is not the movement of thought attempting to grasp, categorize, or resolve, but a direct witnessing—silent, effortless, and without center. This article explores the nature of contemplative seeing, the…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 3
The Unshakable Center – Resting Beyond Thought In our previous articles, we explored the immediate encounter with truth and the peace and joy found in resting in truth. Now, we turn to a crucial aspect of this experience: the unshakable center—the deep core of awareness that remains unaffected by the fluctuations of thought, emotion, or…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 2
Resting in Truth – The Joy and Peace of Being Building upon our exploration of the immediate encounter with truth, this article delves deeper into the experience of resting in that truth. Once the ground of being is revealed—however briefly—it offers a profound peace and joy that transcend ordinary understanding. This rest in truth is…
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Beyond Materialism & Idealism 4: The Implications of the Necessary—Reframing Thought and Existence
This series has exposed the contradictions at the core of two dominant worldviews: materialism and idealism. Both are entangled in the impossibility of becoming, whether through the assumption that matter arises and perishes or the belief that reality is dependent on thought. Both, in different ways, attempt to explain being through non-being—an assumption that collapses…
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Encounters with the Dead: A Perspective from the Structure of Being
Introduction: The Rising Accounts of Contact with the Deceased In recent years, reports of encounters with the dead have proliferated. Whether through mediumship, near-death experiences (NDEs), apparitions, premonitions, or personal intuitions, individuals claim to perceive or communicate with those who have passed. Traditional interpretations often frame these encounters within religious, spiritualist, or psychological paradigms. However,…
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Suffering & Joy 3: The Paradox of Suffering and Relief
Suffering, like all experiences, is an eternal appearing within Being. It is not an accident to be eliminated but a necessary expression of the structure of reality. Yet, within this structure, the alleviation of suffering also appears to be effective—one takes a painkiller, and the pain subsides. One develops technology, and previously unbearable conditions become…
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Suffering & Joy 1: The Necessary Contrast, and the Unfolding of Being
Suffering and joy are often seen as opposites—as if the presence of one negates the other. In everyday life, people strive to minimize suffering and maximize joy, assuming that joy is a world free from pain. Yet, when examined more deeply, this division reveals itself as an illusion. Suffering and joy are not separate forces…
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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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Mind & Heart – 8: The Essence of Divine Love: The Metaphysical Foundation of Love in NDEs, Contemplation, and Being
Love Beyond Human Experience Throughout history, divine love has been described as the highest and purest form of love, one that surpasses human limitations and reveals the fundamental nature of reality. Those who have undergone near-death experiences (NDEs) often describe encountering an overwhelming, unconditional love that transcends all earthly conceptions. Similarly, in deep contemplation, mystics…
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Mind & Heart – 7: Love Beyond Need: The Eternal Nature of Relationship
Love and the Recognition of the Other If love is not the pursuit of what is missing, but the recognition of what is, then how does this understanding shape the way love appears in human relationships? Love, in its essence, is not something that begins, grows, or fades—it is the eternal necessity of being itself.…
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Mind & Heart – 6: Love and the Illusion of Lack
The Traditional View of Love as Fulfillment of Absence For centuries, love has been understood as the pursuit of what is missing. From Plato’s Symposium to modern romantic ideals, love is often framed as a longing for something absent, an attempt to complete oneself through the other. This idea, deeply embedded in Western thought, has…
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Mind & Heart – 3: The Necessity of Being and the Healing of the Self
The Self in the Midst of Contingency The prevailing sense of uncertainty and fragmentation in human existence stems from the deeply ingrained belief that the self is a contingent occurrence—an ephemeral construct emerging from material conditions, social influences, or fleeting experiences. Within this framework, identity appears fragile, defined by the shifting landscape of time, external…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 5 – Everyday Glimpses—Moments When the Veil Lifts
The direct recognition of Being is not confined to philosophical reflection, meditative disciplines, or near-death experiences. It can also emerge in everyday life, in moments when the ordinary conditioning of thought momentarily gives way, allowing a glimpse of something beyond the habitual framework of becoming. These experiences—whether brief insights, encounters with beauty, or profound emotional…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 1 –The Limits of Ordinary Thinking
Our everyday understanding of reality is shaped by a deeply ingrained framework: the assumption of becoming. We live within a world where things appear to change, arise, and vanish, and this perception is so fundamental that we rarely question it. Yet, as Emanuele Severino has demonstrated, this framework is not an objective truth but an…
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The Unveiling of Being – Article 6: The Collapse of Moral Relativism and the Necessity of Absolute Ethics
In the modern world, ethical discourse has been dominated by relativism—the belief that moral values are contingent, subjective, and shaped by cultural or individual perspectives. This notion, rooted in the rejection of absolute foundations, has led to moral fragmentation, where no principle can claim universal validity. Yet, this very fragmentation reveals the impossibility of a…
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Post 58 – Beyond Method: Science and the Structure of Being
The preceding exploration of philosophy, mysticism, theology, and near-death experiences (NDEs) examined how different paths attempt to unveil truth. Each of these approaches, despite their differences, ultimately gestures toward the same reality: the immediate, self-evident appearing of truth. What remained unaddressed, however, is the role of science in this interplay. If science, too, seeks to…
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Post 57 – Beyond Thought: The Structure of Being and the Convergence of Paths
The preceding discussion on philosophy, mysticism, theology, and near-death experiences (NDEs) illuminated a fundamental tension: truth is immediate, yet language and thought often obscure rather than reveal it. If philosophy does not construct truth but removes the obstructions to its appearing, and if religious, mystical, and experiential insights testify to the same immediacy, then a…
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