The Way of Being
Path templates
Contents
About the templates
The
templates
Everyday
template (printable)
About the
template
First
things
Dedication
Realization
Realization
(continued)
Other
activities
Planning
Universal
template (printable)
About the
template
Being in
the world
Ideas
Becoming—immersive
and instrumental
Being in
the universe
Planning
The Way of Being
Path templates
The templates are in-process—so far, they are templates for the
templates—further concrete options are to be incorporated; see planning for the
templates.
They are designed as an improvement on the older templates, templates and dedication.
They are a supplement to a plain
version of the way of being, which grounds and explains the templates
and their form.
Currently, the templates reproduce the templates in the plain
version; later, at least one of the following will be done (i) eliminate the
templates in the plain version and refer to this document (ii) change the
templates here to be tailored to use, with automation.
The every-day template begins on the next page (in the printable
docm version).
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Main
activities
1. Numbered main options
Details of the
options
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The
template is designed to be adaptable to life situation, interest, being at
home vs away, and choice of activities
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(preparing for the day)
1. On waking
Set
attitude for the day+—limitlessness, dedication and
affirmation, relationships
“We dedicate our lives to
(the way of) being,
To living in the immediate
and ultimate as one;
To its shared discovery and
realization,
Under the pure and pragmatic
dimensions of being;
To shedding the bonds of
limited self,
So that so the path is flow,
relative to force;
To realizing the ultimate in
this life and beyond.”
Review the day, life, path of
realization
2. Rise before the sun
Greet
others
Coffee
in nature
Set
times for
optional activities
Breakfast
Short walk
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(activities especially for the way of being)
3. Foundation
For
realization—study,
experience, reflect, critique, synthesize, write, publish, advertise
For
living—ground,
below
4. Ground
Material—finance, place to live,
place to retreat
Discipline—balance moving forward with
waiting for aware readiness, flexible routine, minimize diversion
Relationships—attention to others, shared
attention to all activities of mutual need and interest
Empowerment—self (attitude,
meditation), engage with the world, consultation on needs
School—school is a focus, yet
energy of youth through early retirement may make it possible to include
other activities
Work—see comments in the
previous item
Retirement—an opportunity to focus on
relationships with persons, nature, society, and the universe
Late
retirement through death—continuation
of retirement activities at a level that matches lesser capacity balanced
with an awareness of the magic of being, awareness and acceptance of death
as real but not necessarily as absolute (for those—but not only those—who
regard death as absolute, an existential attitude may be adopted)
Adaptability—adapting and learning how
to adapt to changing circumstance of self and world, e.g., in
relationships, school to work to retirement to late retirement through
death, and the losses and gains involved
Note—of course existential and
learning-from attitudes to death are appropriate at all aware phases of
life
(activities especially for the way of being)
5. Directed realization
The
day—physical
yoga; meditation – emptying; mindful – on awareness, living, the real,
realization
Immersion,
home—nature,
societies with culture (languages), meditation as portals to
the universal
Immersion,
away—items
above – travel, journey, exploration; solo and shared
Instrumental—science, technology (AI),
politics, economics, communal spirituality as universal portals
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(though
labeled ‘other activities’ these, too, are elements of realization)
6. Tasks
Daily—check and resolve needs,
cleanliness, lunch
Weekly (plus)—shop, clean, prepare
food, appearance
7. Exercise
Excursion, 2 hours—for exercise,
exploration, and photography
8. Evening
Review—the day, plan next day next
day – items, times, exercise route, review the way, meditate
Network—friends, relationships,
share the way; create opportunities for publication, publicity, and funding
Last
things—relaxation,
snack, entertainment, music, and simple enjoyment
Sleep early
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Planning
1. Select activities
2. Set up a daily schedule,
perhaps in the form of a table
3. Enhance the schedule by
introducing flexibility. Given access to software with programming
capabilities, automation of the schedule may be introduced (Microsoft Word
is just one example of such software)
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Universal
template (printable)
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Dimension of
being
Dimension or main aspect—activity
Other related activity
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The
template is designed to be adaptable to life situation, interest, being at
home vs away, and choice of activities
Kinds
of activity have a basis in the dimensions of being in the
way of being.
In the template, the (name of the) dimension or other important aspect is underlined.
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Pure
being—yoga,
meditation, immersion , ideas to action
Community—education (general, paradigm, ways of life),
retreat to the real, renewal, development-reemphasis of paradigm
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Relation—knowing as relation to the
world, reason, art; acting—effective creation of the real
Means—reason,
imagination, meditation and yoga, and the real metaphysics
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Nature as catalyst to the real
Animal
being and devolution—observation, situational empathy, defocus, reason
Society—civilization as vehicle and
path to the real
Transformation
via psyche—by immersion in social groups as place of being and catalyst to
the real
Artifact—civilizing the universe
(especially technology as enhancing being in the universe)
Universe
as peak consciousness via spread of sapient being with agency
Universal, incompletely known
The common way from self to Being (Atman to
Brahman), via the block universe and extended secular worlds consistent
with experience of and in the world
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Universal—realizing Peak Being
(Brahman) in the present
Said
to be rarely achieved in ‘this life’ which is a beginning that is continued
beyond death
Outcome
of previous items, being in the world, ideas, and becoming—immersive and
instrumental
The
means are in the previous dimensions, the everyday templates above, and are
further open to discovery
The open life may be chosen (or natural to the
person) at any phase of life, but may be most natural to the phases of
‘retirement’ and ‘late retirement through death’
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Planning
1. Review phases of life,
reflect on possible emphases for life and the phases
2. Asses current phase and
select activities of focus
3. Review and plan daily,
short, and long term aims and possible activities
4. Include time frame to execute
and then review, assess, renew, and alter plans
5. Build these elements into
everyday planning
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