God descends into matter in order to re-emerge a self realized being. This is transfiguration on a cosmic scale. Just beyond the fringe of our understanding true faith waits to take us from the sound of silence to the brilliant resonance of God’s glory. Consciousness’ refinement from art through religion, science, history and finally philosophy … Continue reading “More on Cultural Epochs”
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Vol. I The overture begins with certain deep, earnest, uniform notes. Then we hear for the first time, infinitely far away, a hint which yet, as if it had come too early, is instantly recalled, until later one hears again and again, bolder and bolder, louder and louder, that voice, which first … Continue reading “We are all Don Giovanni”
The world is not what we perceive. (Through the five senses) These are devices to awaken us to the world. The world is what we know it to be through direct knowledge, noesis, intuition. So Merleau-Ponty was not quite right. Neither is the world a (17th century) machine. It is a mind, or, … Continue reading “Midnight Contemplation”
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form. The Heart Sutra When I say something is done in a void, I mean the doing constitutes the entire universe. I write; the whole world writes. I am the world, there is nothing else. The world is nothing but the writing at that moment. The Buddha is … Continue reading “A Zen Moment”
We are not the subject of the Real. We are the object. Its not what. It’s who. The subject is material, the object, spiritual. Also, the Real is what we perceive. (Merleau-Ponty) That’s good enough. Question not whether It is Real. Whether it is an ephemera, a dream, matters not. It’s the hand we’ve been … Continue reading “Subject/Object”
Collingwood says that knowledge is achieved by a dialectical process of question and answer. Question and answer, he further says, corresponds to imagination and assertion. He points out that these moments in dialectic, moments of imagination and of assertion, are ideal divisions and that they are really, if properly understood, indistinct in that each presupposes … Continue reading “More on R. G. Collingwood”
“He who regards himself in this light will be afraid of himself, and observing himself sustained in the body given him by nature between those two abysses of the Infinite and Nothing, will tremble at the sight of these marvels; and I think that, as his curiosity changes into admiration, he will be more disposed … Continue reading “Eroticism, Music and Madness – annotated”
Soren Kierkegaard, the great Christian philosopher, wrote that “God does not think, he creates. God does not exist, he is eternal.” Athiests ignorantly deny God because they can’t find empirical evidence. At the same time religionists claim they do experience God, many claiming to even talk to “him”, but mostly they “feel” his presence. But, … Continue reading “God is Beyond Experience”
This has been crossposted with an introduction at http://professordesani.blogspot.com/ Nadi Text, June 29, 1980 If there is only one religion, you will have a partial view of the world. Treat all life as your own, small and large. Nundi Deva and Shiva Yogi are the “speakers.” This text spoken before Buddha. Talks of Jainism, Buddhism … Continue reading “Nadi Shastras – Personal Notes from Readings by Prof. Desani”
“The end of the world as we know it” is a myth chased by people who need something to believe in; a desire for something greater than their little selves. There has always been a great hunger for apocalypse. Eschatology is the most popular ‘science’ and religions are it’s greatest beneficiaries. For instance, the 2nd … Continue reading “Interlude for TEOTWAWKI”