tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40720432011-04-21T16:54:21.309-07:00Reflections related to transduality, duality and an integral view.. . .noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4072043.post-1107237156862112822005-01-31T21:46:00.000-08:002005-01-31T21:52:36.863-08:00

Ethics & Transdual View Guidelines for views and behavior in spiritual traditions tends to... Reflect the views and behaviors of those who have awakened to a fully transdual experience of the world. What comes effortlessly and naturally from this view, is rigidified into guidelines and rules for those not yet there. And since they mirror what flows from a transdual experience, it aligns

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Seeking What is Outside Existence is always more than and different from our experience of it. Our maps and worldviews are always of limited use, and always ultimately wrong. They are born our of certain inner and outer situations, and when these situations change, the maps must change to still be of use to us. Every experience, view, map and statement is limited. It draws a line and leaves

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Music Each piece of music has a very specific effect on the human mind and body. It reflects a certain experience (the one the composer was in when it was written/created) and also opens up for a similar experience in the listener. Most stays within the limited personal, emotional realm. It can express/open up for a wide range of experiences, such as pleasure/delight, energy/focus,

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Two Orientations There seems to be two basic orientations... And both are expressed in all of our lives, in different ways. Blind Duality First is the one that emerges from and creates a sense of blind duality, and it can take two expressions: Separation - not unity We see separations and not the unity. We are caught up in a us vs. them view of the world. We apply this orientation

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Links to previous journaling... EcoSpirituality - fragments EcoSpirituality Presentation - outline Personal Practice

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Evolution There seems to be a trend in the evolution/development of consciousness (or rather how it is expressed)... Unconscious unity Matter, plants, most species in infancy and adulthood, human infants, etc. Conscious duality Children and some non-human species awakening into it, human adults refine it Conscious duality & conscious unity The experience of both deepened and embodied. A

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Polarities Existence is set up as an endless series of polarities: existence/nonexistence, matter/mind, etc. And they are all expressions of that which is beyond and embraces all dualities. We habitually tend to embrace one end of each polarity and reject (or regard with less fondness) the other end of the polarity. Through this, we are creating a fragmented experience of the world for

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Causality & Synchronicity The Universe is a seamless whole. It is one dynamic process, one movement. And this movement is expressed in changes in all parts of the whole, in all phenomena. We perceive these movements as (a) causality (one part "causing" a change in another part), and (b) synchronicities (acausal meaningful coinsidences).

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Big Mind & Death In the Buddhist tradition, Big Mind (Existence, Spirit, God, etc) is beyond and embraces all polarities: existence/non-existence, matter/mind, duality/unity, and notions of good/evil etc. It is one mind that is expressed in all phenomena, including in all beings with consciousness. That means that there is no separate entity, no "I", that will be reincarnated. At the most, it

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Breema : beyond dualitites I have found Breema to be a wonderful way to deepen my connection to my body, and to explore the dance between the absolute (beyond dualities) and relative (dualitites/differentiation). Here are some of its effects for me. Each come up now and then. Each is a direct experience. And each continually deepens... Deepening connection with the body. Through bringing the

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Differently Transdual There seems to be different flavors to the transdual experience. Here are three I am aware of now: 1. Big Mind work - which is a more mental/cognitive transdual experience. A facilitator will lead you into it through a series of questions, and it does mimick/mirror an awakened experience to a certain extent. This is a taste to help guide and motivate practice. 2. "

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Waking Down in Mutuality I went to Portland this weekend for four days of activities with Saniel Bonder, the main/founding teacher for Waking Down in Mutuality. It is difficult to talk concisely and clearly about as it is still quite new for me. Some of the main impressions are: (a) The words and intentions are very familiar to me and close to my own. (b) The experience/process may still be

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Calling I went to a workshop and talk with Jungian analyst Michael Conforti today, and it reminded me of a core issue in my life right now. When we have a calling, we are miserable if we don't follow it. My calling is clearly a daily spiritual practice (Buddhism, Jes Bertelsen, with additions of Jung, Process Work, etc). When I lived it, in Norway through daily prayer and Tibetan practice,

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Projections Working with the Shadow is one aspect of working with projections in general. Everything we see in the outer world, is also there in the inner world - either as potentials or more unfolded and expressed. When we experience attraction or aversion towards anything in the outer world, it is a sign that we are not fully aware of those same qualities in ourselves. Attraction and

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Shadow Knowing how to recognize and work with the Shadow is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to move beyond a blindly dualistic world experience. And luckily, there is an easy (although not always simple) way of working with the Shadow: To make a habit of recognizing in ourselves any quality we see in the outer world that we experience aversion (and sometimes attraction) towards.

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Transdual Experience Some notes on a transdual experience, from my own experience and that of others: 1. A transdual experience is within reach of everyone. Not everyone will experience it in a given lifetime, but it is always just a hairbreadth away from typical day-to-day awareness. Openings can occur through one or more of the following: (a) A regular and guided spiritual practice (prayer,

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Matrix I saw the Matrix for the first time at Zen River in Holland. I was struck by how it matched not only the Buddhist philosophy (to be expected as it was intentional), but also the experience of Buddhist practice. Some parallels: (a) Our "ordinary" experience of life is delusion. We experience separation where there is none, and fixedness where there is flux. Everything is in continual

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Human Maturity The first signs of human maturity comes when we... (a) Extend our circle of considerations to all beings. When we see all life as ourselves (by recognizing in ourselves what we see in the other). When we treat others as we would want to be treated if we were in their situation. (b) Experience reverence for all phenomena. It is all expression of the same whole. It is all a miracle

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Transformations It seems that our personal transformations often mirror our collective transformations. [...]

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Absolute & Relative Last night was the first class in a course on the Gaia theory (geophysiology) at ProtoTista. A recurrent theme among the participants was the interplay between two perspectives: Seeing the Earth from the perspective of the Universe or the Earth as a whole, and seeing the Earth from the perspective of humans (one current aspect of the Earth). From the perspective of the

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Visual Representations & Transdual View When I started painting and drawing in my mid-teens, I had a strong sense that the most powerful paintings were those that would embrace all polarities: Whole and detail, abstraction and the figurative, aesthetics and content, timelessness and reflecting our time, shading and color, line and tone, robustness and elegance. When I later saw the paintings of

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