Adaptable
universal template1—covers dimensions of being2. Source—The way of
being (http://www.horizons-2000.org).
1 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 template.pdf. A note on the sources in print versions—to access the
sources below, follow the hyperlinks in the online version, universal template.pdf. 2
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
template, and open. 3 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. 4 Explanation.
Ideas are the first—and final—place of being, significance, and
action; and are instrumental in realization. 5 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). 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. 6 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. Sources. The system of human
knowledge, reason, practice, and action—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. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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. 10 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 describe in the previous note.
And it is thus, that identities merge with Being and communicate across lives
and deaths. 11 “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. |