Vipassana Meditation: Impermanence Although standard vipassana meditation practice leading to insight about the true
nature of reality does not recommend what I am about to do, I plan to do it anyway.
Not exact matches
In
reality, although Trump's regulations added some new restrictions, they didn't materially alter the
nature of travel to Cuba as outlined by the previous administration.
In order to be honest with one's self, a person would have to be able to accurately determine the exact
nature of reality, which to date I don't think any
of us our capable
of that task.
I
do not doubt any person's experience, but that
does not mean that I believe their experience is necessarily a «truth» about the
nature of reality.
The distinction between the two
natures of God
does not depend upon any
of the intricacies
of Whitehead's metaphysics as developed in Process and
Reality and may well antedate it.
I found in him one who
did dispute the
nature of reality with modernity in rich detail and with powerful analysis.
God
does not grudge the existence
of the
reality distinct from Himself; He
does not grudge it its own
reality,
nature and freedom.
«You must have oil for your limbs, blood for your veins, water for your soul, the world
of reality for your intellect:
do you not see that the very law
of your own
nature makes these a necessity for you?
Does logic reflect the
nature of reality, or is it a merely formal structure governing the use
of language»?
To cite just one example, it is difficult to see how this synthesis, relying as it
does upon a basically Aristotelian concept
of nature or form as a static unchanging
reality, can accommodate the discoveries
of modern science.
While most people
do not recognize it, they also have a view
of the
nature of reality which undergirds and shapes these other notions.
For him it was better to have a minimum
of realities that ennoble the
nature of a thing than to multiply
realities when they are not necessary and
do not ennoble
nature — or as we might say today «keep it simple» and elegant!
By way
of contrast, in a static atemporal pattern
of thinking, in which the context
does not affect essentially the
nature of being, it is indifferent to a given being into which ontological dimensions
of reality - in - process it is placed.
Even though Whitehead seems to have developed his Categories in response to issues in the philosophy
of nature, still nothing in
reality can be an exception to the Categories, especially the Category
of Categories, so how
does the Category
of the Ultimate intersect with Whitehead's theism?
If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations, in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were in the
nature of visions rather than
of bodily seeing, this
does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's presence as an external
reality.
The problem for
Nature, as he describes it in Process and
Reality (Part II, Chapter III, Section VII) is to produce societies which can survive through time but which
do not sacrifice all opportunity amongst their constituent actual occasions for what he called «intensity»
of experience.
In this way the ontological argument, by drawing out the presupposition
of metaphysical understanding, indicates that the choice before us is between holding that there is a God and that «
reality» makes sense in some metaphysical manner, whether or not we can ever grasp what that sense is, and holding that there is no God and that any apparent metaphysical understanding
of reality can only be an illusion which
does not significantly correspond to the ultimate
nature of things — unless this «nihilism» be regarded as a kind
of metaphysical understanding instead
of its blank negation.
In conclusion, the realist thesis is this: To say that actual entities are the final
realities does not mean that nexus are merely multiplicities (or sets), or that nexus are merely subjective, or that nexus only exist in the consequent
nature of God.
Thus, as we shall see in more detail later, James's theory as a whole
did make the extension into considerations
of the
nature of reality as a whole.
By calling his own brand
of naturalism «integral,» Artigas wishes to convey the notion that
nature as understood by the natural sciences points beyond itself to a larger
reality to which the natural owes its existence, a
reality to which the methods
of the natural sciences
do not
of themselves, however, give direct access.
Insofar as a Christian theology, with its inherent theodicy, can
do justice to the more neutral facts in a more coherently adequate way than theologies (including a / theologies) starting from a different vision
of reality, the idea
of the perfectly good, loving
nature of God is warranted.
And in
doing so it leads to a serious error in logic: after abstracting so completely from the experiential quality that pervades all
of nature it sets forth the desiccated end - product
of its abstracting as though it were
reality - itself and everything else a mere coloring by human sensory projection.
One intuition is that the
nature of reality is such that these needed spontaneous intuitions are possible and
do occur.
God is still that supreme
reality who on the one hand maintains order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process
of nature and history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent
nature,» as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is
done in the world.
If the church
did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the
nature of reality and the purpose
of human life, it could not hold or attract the kind
of leaders it needed for the future.
The ultimate object
of man wherein lies his greatest happiness in future life is to gain knowledge
of the
realities of things so far as his
nature allows, and
do what is incumbent upon him.
We can, indeed, partake
of the divine
nature, but only insofar as we respond to God's initiative in Jesus Christ, and in
doing so are incorporated into the new
reality which arises out
of his death and rising again — a
reality which is referred to again and again as his Body.
McHenry sees the «concrete experience» on which the scheme is to be founded, as Whitehead
does in Process and
Reality, as referring to the units
of nature as they are in themselves.
They
did not develop the consequences
of this line
of thought for the
nature of reality.
By
nature, the present President
of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment
of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma
Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness
of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of President Obama and maturity
of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of Hillary Clinton
of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of acceptance without a feeling
of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of high and low
of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have
done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within
of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture
of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone
does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure
of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of it that he has proposed for approval as ego
of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past
of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President
of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show
of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of America that was time bound
of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of Americ
of its
reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President
of Americ
of America.
I don't think greg meant to lie, it's just that his mind can't comprehend (yet) that a world can exist without god, so when tony shows that something that was supposed to be divine was just an act
of nature, greg immediatly attempts to create a
reality for tony where a god exists.
Nature (physis in Greek) in the sense
of nonhuman self - existent
reality does not occur in the Old or the New Testament; it is a concept alien to the biblical world.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 34) Such characterization
of God's primordial
nature does not leave much room to conceive him as the source
of the initial aim
of each actual entity especially when «the initial aim is the best» (Process and
Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
It would at least prompt the question whether this «
nature» were not simply the a priori structure
of the knowing subject's cognition, having nothing at all to
do with «
reality in itself».
Although Whitehead
does not define mass in Process and
Reality, he presents the philosophical background for its preprojective origins in Chapter III, «The Order
of Nature,» Sections IV through VII.
This is a self - contradictory position to the rationalists, especially when Niebuhr
did not give a synthesis to the thesis - antithesis
nature of reality.
A Christian theology and philosophy which
does not wish to arouse the suspicion that this fundamental truth
of Christianity is merely mythology, must put the question today why the infinite Logos, when he steps forth from himself into the sphere
of what is finite yet wills to manifest his own
nature precisely within that sphere, becomes material, and eternally maintains that material
reality even when his finite manifestation is brought to its perfection.
Einstein's use
of the word doesn't mean that he bought into any supernatural power behind
nature any more than the ti.tle
of Dawkins» latest book, The Magic
of Reality, means that he now believes in magic.
But the issue will not die, because the moment we begin to
do theology we arc involved in questions about the
nature of reality.
Second, materialist physicalism's acceptance
of causal determinism, along with the correlative acceptance
of the idea that «science» provides precise predictive laws, 5 excludes the idea that a partially self - determining mind could affect the physical course
of nature, It is these two metaphysically - based exclusions that, as we have seen, prevent materialist physicalism from
doing justice to our inescapable presuppositions about the
reality and efficacy
of our mental life.
While we shall be concerned in this book primarily with the
nature of revelation, we must also honestly acknowledge that today there is much doubt about whether what we call «revelation» has actually happened and if the notion has anything to
do with
reality.
«Indeed, the
reality of the human being for the entire span
of life, both before and after birth,
does not allow us to posit either a change in
nature or a gradation in moral value, since it possesses full anthropological and ethical status.
When we humans were primitive thousands
of years ago, we survived because
nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because
of many synthetic products our existence had endangered
nature, that awareness developed a kind
of concern for us to correct some
of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect
of reality, in the spiritual part
of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness
of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why
do you think is the reason?
The sense and degree to which psychologists are behaviorists gets its significance from the fact that, in studying animals, that is, the sort
of thing that we ourselves are, we have a dual access to
reality, which we
do not have in studying inanimate
nature.
To stop sinning is impossible for us on the one hand but is possible in Christ so what must we
do for a start we must accept Jesus and we must be born again.Our old
nature must be crucified and we need to walk by the spirit
of God.But is it a
reality yes definitely because the word says that sin shall not have dominion over us.The victory is found in Christ not in ourselves because we can not
do it in our strength so we humble ourselves before God in our weakness so that by
doing so allows the holy spirit to empower us to
do what only he can
do.In that way we become overcomers more than conquerers.I am seeing the
reality of what Christ can
do with a sinner like me as he moulds me in the person i was destined to be in him.
DE: Whitehead is protesting against having two distinct
realities, mind and
nature, and in
doing so he is attacking two kinds
of bifurcation.
One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been
doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions
of the
nature of reality.
living a life
of delusion is AWESOME until
REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble
of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can
do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge
of the world and human
nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST
of the misery and suffering the rest
of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead
of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...
Psychotic states can be so severe that the person completely loses his grasp on
reality and is completely unable to appreciate whether what he is
doing is right or wrong, or even the
nature of his own actions.
In
doing so they tended to posit some sort
of intuition
of God's
nature - which in Catholic theology is a work
of grace - as the foundation for certainty in our knowledge
of every day
reality and so blurred the distinction between
nature and grace.