Everyday template

This template is for everyday activity, emphasizing living well in this world, for its own sake, and as on the way to the ultimate.

(1) Rise before the sun, dedicate to the way and its aim, affirm the universal nature of being, morning reflection in nature, breakfast. (2) Meditative-contemplative review priorities and plans—the way, life, the day. Reflect on realization, priorities, and means. (3) Realization—work, relationships, networking; ideas and action (e.g., this manual); experimental yoga and meditation—practice, action, sharing; other activities—engagement in the world, e.g., languages, art. (4) Tasks—day, week, … , year, and as needed; lunch; attitude—meditation in action, commitment with detachment; merges with realization. (5) Physical activity—exercise and exploration of the worlds of nature and culture for experience and inspiration. (6) Evening rest, renewal, review, meditation and realization, network, community, tasks, supper, preparation-dedication for the next day and future. Sleep early.

Universal template

The universal template builds on the everyday template. It emphasizes action in all dimensions of being, especially as informed by the real metaphysics.

(1) Being in the world—pure being, community; means—yoga (meditation), retreat for experience of the real. (2) Ideas—knowing as relation to the world, reason, art; acting effectively, creating the real; means—yoga (meditation), the real metaphysics, sharing—way of being website and its design, talks. (3) Becoming—(i) Nature as catalyst to the real. Animal being and devolution—observation, situational empathy, defocus, reason (ii) Society and 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 (iii) Artifact… civilizing the universe, especially technology as enhancing being in the universe—universe as peak consciousness via spread of sapient being (iv) 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. (4) Being in the universe in this life—universal. Realizing peak being in the present; if rarely achieved, this life is a beginning that is continued beyond death. The means is in the previous items 1 – 3.iv, the everyday template, and open.

Resources

The resources for the way amplify the conceptual treatment and its background, have details of realization, both common and universal, and sharing the way.

Way of being site; planning. Detailed templates everyday template.pdf, universal template.pdf. Detailed conceptual system bare content.html. Brief essay precis.html. Dedication dedication-affirmation.pdf. More resources.html. A system of human knowledge (html). Some world problems and opportunities (html). Suggested reading.html. A reference on yoga (html). Some lessons as basis for talks.