Re: Idealism, Materialism and Zen
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:33 pm
Well, if the bolded part implies what I hope it implies, then it matches pretty well what is called intuitive thinking in the sense of PoF. Additionally, when this inner lawfulness starts to be become so apparent, so clear, that we practically begin to see how our ordinary thinking flows within these lawful curvatures, then we approach Imaginative cognition.Eugene I. wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:23 pmBecause it is really impossible to describe, it's like describing the taste of tea to someone who never tried it The realization of Gnosis does not remove the conditioning right away, but slowly facilitates the diminishing of it over time when the activity of Thinking, the thought forms that it manifests and shapes, get more aligned with the unconditional aspects of its own nature (its own lawfulness). At the same time, "cognizing the cocoons of conditioning" also helps along the same process, so again, they do not contradict but complement each other.So far we hear only the most vague generalities concerning 'experiencing' and 'beingness' without any clue how this manifests in our T, F, W life, besides to the fact that we believe we're no longer conditioned by anything.
Think about it. When we think verbally we hear auditory sounds. What makes these sounds different from just any random sounds? It's because they are aligned along streamlines of meaning. When we think and speak we express in discrete words. But when we think we don't feel the meaning that we experience to be discontinuous. Instead, we grasp something whole in our thinking and we will it as a magnetic force line which gathers the iron filings (words) along itself. This is why it's so important to observe our thinking. Only in this way we can distinguish our inner thinking gestures which weave as continuous streamlines of meaning which cohere the iron filings along. This is the goal of exercises like the vowels, the moving light dot and so on. The goal is to gain consciousness that we're spiritually active within the smooth and continuous streamlines of meaning and that the sensory-like and discontinuous thought-perceptions only follow in suit.
When this is continued further, the inner lawfulness that you speak of, becomes more and more richer. It's not only single streamlines but whole fields with gradients, convergences, divergences, curls. These are not seen as objects that need to be thought about but are the inner lawfulness of meaning itself. In the same way as before, all the phenomena of our soul life are now seen as iron filings flowing in completely meaningful way. These panoramas of meaningful and holistic soul flow can be expressed as Imaginations. In ordinary thinking we engineer the curvature of a streamline, in Imagination we curve whole fields of streamlines. It's like we're working with superpositions of many ordinary streamlines of thinking, grasped holistically.
When we continue even further through Inspiration and Intuition, we rise through these 'unconditional' aspects and their lawfulness, within which not only the filings of our personal soul life flow but also the processes of the world (which are no longer perceived as mysterious and discontinuous sense impressions but from their inner, first-person higher order meaning hyperfields which manifest them).