I have explained the teaching good in every respect, but
If you, from studying it, do not put it into practice,
It, like a great medicine for disease held only in one's hand
Will not be able to nourish one back to health.
Samadhirajasutra
The bark of the sugarcane does not have anything.
The flower of sweetness is inside.
By eating the bark,
A person will never be able to get
The sweet flavor of the sugarcane.Words are like the bark.
To think about the meaning is sugar.
Therefore,
Give up this delight in words and
Think about the meaning
By being constantly attentive.
Adhyasayasamcodanasutra
You should therefore crease from practice
based upon intellectual understanding,
pursuing words and following after speech,
and learn the backward step
that turns your light inwardly
to illuminate your self.
Body and mind of themselves will drop away,
and your original face will be manifest.
Fukanzazengi
| 0.0000 | Introduction |
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| 0.0010 | Purpose of Introduction |
| 0.0011 | The purpose of this Introduction is to set the main body of what is to follow in late Twentieth Century Western cultural understanding. |
| 0.0012 | Essentially, the writer's understanding evolves from within the Unified Field Theory (which we are now adapting and modifying as the data demands an upgrading of its theoretical implications), Systems Theory (which we will further define and delineate under appropriate headings), and Applied Phenomenology (which, by intention, we are using as the primary procedure in the setting forth of what follows). |
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| 0.1100 | The Unified Field Theory |
| 0.1110 | The Unified Field Theory posits that the space between particles makes the particles to be what they are and how they behave. To change the particle, change the space (i.e., the field). |
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| 0.1200 | Systems Theory |
| 0.1210 | Systems Theory posits that no one particle can function in isolation from any other particle. Groups of particles forming one identity are interdependent with every other group and are essentially the same. The particular function of the particle or group of particles is to express the organization of the whole (and the whole within the whole ad infinitum) either the particle or the group forms. To change a part, change the whole. When the part changes, we have already changed the whole to allow for the change in the part. |
| 0.1220 | The Brain |
| 0.1221 | The brain is the electro-chemical, bio-physical organ of the neuronal-body that organizes physical activity. |
| 0.1230 | The Mind |
| 0.1231 | The mind is the principle of the brain and is the space (field) within which the charged brain carries out its functions. |
| 0.1232 | By principle we mean "a primary source, origin; an underlying endowment." (Woolf) |
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| 0.1240 | Knowledge and Knowing |
| 0.1241 | Just as all the universe is in a water drop or grain of sand and just as all viruses are within every human body, so too is all knowledge within the brain's electrical switching mechanism, and so is all knowing within being. |
| 0.1242 | To know is a function of one's being. The knowledge one has does not limit one's knowing. Knowledge is a function of mind. Knowledge one acquires. What a human being knows, in this context, is innate. A human being can cloud knowing with knowledge, confusing the two. This confusion is what often brings a client to a psychotherapist, shaman, doctor, a healer. |
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| 0.1300 | Applied Phenomenology |
| 0.1310 | Phenomenology is "the descriptive science of pure experience without intended theoretical or practical applications. The phenomenological approach is to examine an object or situation as it appears to the senses, as it is experienced, or as it is symbolized. It is the study of what a person experiences or perceives about something else; such study does not demand that pure experience fit any known law or 'truth.'" Belof, 177) |
| 0.1311 | Descriptive Phenomenology intuits, analyzes, and describes data of direct experience in a new and systematic way, according to patterns of intentionality, how we "want" to do it. |
| 0.1312 | Essential (Eidetic) Phenomenology makes an exploration of essential structures on based on creative or imaginative variations of the data. |
| 0.1313 | The Phenomenology of Appearance takes special notice of the different properties and modes in which various phenomena present themselves. |
| 0.1314 | Constitutional Phenomenology makes an investigation of the way or ways phenomena establish themselves in human consciousness. |
| 0.1315 | Hermeneutic Phenomenology interprets the meaning of the phenomena in terms of the human Dasein. Stewart, xxix) |
| 0.1316 | Applied Phenomenology makes use of each of the above disciplines in phenomenology when explicating a particular phenomenon. The following is an explication of mind in terms of Phenomenology, i.e., phenomenology applied to mind: |
| 0.1320 | The mind is a field of energy. As such, the mind cannot be created or destroyed. It is undivided and whole. It is unlimited. It differentiates itself by concentrating itself into identifiable mass (E=MC2, hydron/quark matrix). Hence, mind is total energy field, pure energy, and is more than the created, more than the human, more than the universe, and more than all that is and is not (as the mind is the space as well within which no-thing can be or cannot be in the same instance). |
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| 0.1330 | The mind is the space within which the phenomenal world is knowable and makes that which is knowable known as it is or as it appears to be within the field of perception, which may not be as "it is," but only as "it appears to be or not be." |
| 0.1331 | We create delusion which produces illusion when we confuse mind with brain. |
| 0.1400 | Unified Field Theory Synthesis |
| 0.1410 | Function of mind we predicate upon function of being (non-being) (T'ai Chi) (Ens qua ens). Being organizing itself is mind. Mind organizing itself is the hydronic-quark matrix-composition from within which the atomic nucleus comes to particalize itself. Atomic nuclei organizing themselves into and within ever increasing wholes within the whole is (eventually) the phenomenal being: human, animal, plant, mineral, particle, sub-atomic particle, matrix (the beginning becomes the end; the end, the beginning. Cf. curved space). |
| 0.1411 | Emotions include: fear, love, hope, belief, trust, like and so forth. Emotions are functions of mind rather than functions of being (here and now, on Earth, "smelling the coffee"). |
| 0.1412 | Emotions are a systemic, electro-chemical neuronal response to an environmental stimulus. How the mind generates the field within the response charge occurs through the mediation of the brain producing the particular emotion. An internal (intra-psychic) field within which generates the particular response governs the organism's response that produces action (real or imagined) in the phenomenal world. |
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| 0.1500 | Systems Theory Synthesis |
| 0.1510 | All phenomenal beings are what they are because they are and can be known as they are. Inherent within the phenomena being human is its self-reflective ability. This self-reflective ability can cloud the human's ability to perceive with clarity all other phenomena, including its own phenomena. The human can tend to perceive all phenomena as s/he thinks it is, ought to be, or as s/he wishes it to be, hopes it to be, rather than as it is in its own being what it is here and now. |
| 0.1511 | The phenomena being human evolves in clarity of insight in the apprehension of its own being, its own oneness and inherent unity within all that is and is not. The evolution is a seeing through the confusion that results from identifying with what one perceives (particle, separate reality) to experiencing oneself as being the whole generating the perception within which the perception occurs, the attending emotional (internal/external) responses to stimuli, itself generated by the same whole being. That is, to experience oneself as being the whole generating the perception that perceives the part(s). |
| 0.1512 | Once one perceives and takes full responsibility for being responsible and for one's full and absolute integrity, then one knows oneself as the generator of the space within which people/things occur. |
| 0.1513 | One then perceives reality as it is. One sees that there is no "other" place to go. That the labeled space on the other side of the bridge from Transpersonal Psychology is no other than the true and actual space one is in here and now. The metapersonal reality is the actual reality of the now conscious agent right here and now. |
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| 0.1600 | Phenomenological Synthesis |
| 0.1610 | The organismic (intra-psychic), response to the emotion labeled fear is the ground of all psycho-pathology not organically based due to a defect in the mechanism. The fear of fear we experience as the only fear. |
| 0.1611 | Once one identifies as the field within which all else is and is not, then one takes responsibility for the presence of and response to fear. The original state of clarity of insight and the direct apprehension of being becomes clear of the delusionary and illusionary character of mind organizing itself with the field of the body (and visa versa) — Wholes within wholes. All is one. |
| 0.1612 | One no longer sees oneself as one single drop of water about to be lost within the cup of water. One knows one's self as being part of the total cup of water. No longer needing to experience isolation and alienation, having surrendered one's supposed ownership of one's self and one's things, one no longer needs to experience fear and thus does not. |
| 0.1613 | At this junction, the phenomena being human enters the earth plane, leaving the domain of mind. The human being is now one with all that is and is not in a simultaneous and contemporaneous expression of the totally one energy state that one is before one and two, cause before cause and effect. |
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| 0.1700 | Unified Field and Systems Theory and Phenomenological Synthesis |
| 0.1710 | The human person consistently experiences joy, the emotional response to truly being what one is. The person does not need to be what s/he thinks s/he ought to be or could be. |
| 0.1720 | The human being accepts totally and unconditionally, with full and absolute positive regard the reality of his or her own being here and now. S/he can, thus, accept totally and unconditionally the reality of other beings in the and as the same reality as s/he is. |
| 0.1730 | The demonstrable behavior patterns of the human on Earth (rather than in his or her mind) tend to show the following traits as the person behaves within his or her position within the environment: |
| 0.1731 | to exercise a position of personal authority in terms of personal competence, |
| 0.1732 | to skillfully influence and support others, |
| 0.1733 | to maintain a powerful charisma, |
| 0.1734 | to influence and teach others to improve their own outlooks, |
| 0.1735 | to enhance and invigorate the entire environment, |
| 0.1736 | to prepare a sound foundation for any cultural regression, |
| 0.1737 | to create the atmosphere for strengthening personal bonds by one's input, |
| 0.1738 | to be tolerant and caring to build a structure that will weather those stormier emotional encounters, part of any relationship. |
| 0.1740 | The joyful human being gets "it." That there is no one place to go other than where one is implies immediately that the human takes charge of his or her behavior in the here and now moment without fear. |
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| 0.2000 | Philosophical Psychology "is concerned with more speculative and controversial issues relating to mind and consciousness which, though arising in the context of scientific psychology, have metaphysical and epistemological ramifications. The principal topics of philosophical psychology are: psychological methodology, the criteria of mentality, the relation between mind and consciousness, the existence of the unconscious and subconscious mind, the structure of the mind, the genesis of mind, the nature of the self, the mind-body relation, the freedom of the will, and the mind and cognition." Runes) |
| 0.2001 | Thus, do we generate the general internal structure of this handbook as follows:01.0000 Psychological Methodology |
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