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To Be or Not to Be: Dōgen’s Being-Time | David Paul Boaz
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To Be or Not to Be: Dōgen’s Being-Time. Dōgen-Zenji, Japan’s greatest zen master, founder of the Soto School, called this unbidden, but not unwelcome relative-conventional arising of the forms of physical and mental reality a being-time moment flashing into existence from the spacious vast expanse of its non-logocentric emptiness (not nothingness) ground. This ground is both relative and ultimate (the “two truths”) reality-being-itself, the unbounded whole that is his nondual Uji. About it; before we def...
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Realizing Human Happiness: Toward a Noetic Science of Matter, Mind and Spirit | David Paul Boaz
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Realizing Human Happiness: Toward a Noetic Science of Matter, Mind and Spirit. Integrating Science and Spirit. In the 2nd century CE two great scholar-masters, Nagarjuna in the East and Plotinus in the West, began the Non-Dual Revolution in our Great Wisdom Tradition that is only just now unifying the wisdom traditions of East and West. This non-dual V iew. Understands the ontological interdependence the prior unity of all arising phenomena with their primordial matrix source. There is no essential.
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The Idols of the Tribe: The Metaphysics of Modern Science | David Paul Boaz
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The Idols of the Tribe: The Metaphysics of Modern Science. Science and its scientists must make conscious their a priori. The Principle of Physicalism (Material Realism):. An essentially pre-given separate and independently existing, exclusively physical. Spacetime reality exists as the basis of all appearing phenomena, a priori. Independent of observation or experiment by any sentient observer (the myth of the given ). The Principle of Objectivism:. The Principle of Material Substance Monism:. There is ...
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What Is Buddhist Emptiness? What Is Human Happiness? | David Paul Boaz
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What Is Buddhist Emptiness? What Is Human Happiness? 8220;Without past, present, future; empty awake mind.”. The crux of the matter. Buddhist Middle Way View teaches of the Two Truths : ultimate ( paramartha satya). And relative ( samvriti satya. Ultimate truth may be broadly construed as emptiness (shunyata. Relative truth as the physical and mental form. That continuously arises from the unbounded whole of this ultimate primordial emptiness. Well, how do we move our awareness from all of these parts, t...
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Dzogchen and the Nine Vehicles of Enlightenment | David Paul Boaz
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And the Nine Vehicles of Enlightenment. In order to lead living beings to understanding. I taught all the different yanas. Shakyamuni, the Buddha ( Lankavatara Sutra. Sakyamuni Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), the historical Buddha taught sutras. Esoteric) for disciples of varying levels of understanding. Jesus and the great Chinese and Hindu mahasiddhas. Also taught in this manner. In the First Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma. At Sarnath) the Buddha elaborated The Four Great Truths. And The Eightfold Path.
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Being the Whole: Happiness Itself | David Paul Boaz
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Being the Whole: Happiness Itself. Now is the time to enter into it. Now is the time to be. No need to change it. Whatever arises let it be as it is. Without judgment positive or negative. Without past or future. Without attraction or aversion. Without affirmation or denial. Without closeness or distance. Whatever arises clear light mind. Opening here into its original ground. Whatever arises already liberated. Perfect as it is. So let it be as it is. Presence of that ground. As it is already accomplished.
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Buddhist Basics: Being the Whole | David Paul Boaz
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Buddhist Basics: Being the Whole. Form and Emptiness: the fundamental Two Truths. In the Buddhist Middle Way View these Two Truths are: Ultimate Truth. The formless “body of truth”, the unbounded whole (. Is all of the appearing physical and mental forms of reality that arise within this vast whole. Buddha told, “Form is empty; emptiness is form”. These two truth dimensions are a prior unity. No emptiness, no form. No form, no emptiness. The Three Buddha Bodies. The luminous bridge), and. Emptiness is es...
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Who Is It? On the Prior Unity of Science and Spirit | David Paul Boaz
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On the Prior Unity of Science and Spirit. Who is it that shines through the mind and abides at the heart of all beings, always liberated and fully awake? As to paradigmatic unification of Science and Spirit, All dharmas are ultimate reality (Shakamuni Buddha). The dimension of spacetime Relative-Conventional Truth (. With its many seemingly separate conceptual concealer truths all of these dharmas are, in the absence of a discursive separate self ego-I, merely ultimate reality (. Wonder of wonders,.
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The Structures of Consciousness | David Paul Boaz
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The Structures of Consciousness. Brief Review of the View. Exoteric/Outer, Waking State, Gross Body. Dualistic, indirect, relative-conventional truth, concept-belief; empirical subject-object knowledge (doxa, namtok,. Opinion, information, third person objective scientific data). Manovijnana,. Esoteric/Inner, Dream State, Subtle Body. Deity realms. Subtle Body energy dimension, Klishta manovijnana. Saguna Brahman, Ishvara, esoteric/inner yet separate reality. Path stage. Avidya maya. Beyond dualistic, su...
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Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta in a Postmodern World | David Paul Boaz
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In a Postmodern World. Your question is a good one. As to. Vedanta: it seems to me that these two great soteriologies are, broadly construed, the same in their compassionate Conduct of the Path, and their Result/Fruition the full. Of human spiritual liberation/enlightenment. Both are nondual, but they differ a bit in their acausal View. I have chosen here in the spirit of the Buddhist non-sectarian. Tradition to emphasize some of their similarities in the context of Buddhist causal. These two paths,.
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