Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of Dzogchen. Dzogchen is an ancient form of Tibetan mystic humanism. Dzogchen makes the essential distinction... more
Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of Dzogchen. Dzogchen is an ancient form of Tibetan mystic humanism. Dzogchen makes the essential distinction between mind and awareness. A person can be located in mind alone and locked in time. As a person shifts from being located in mind alone (mindfulness) and goes beyond mind alone (mindfulness), one becomes aware of their own awareness. As we focus our awareness on our own innermost awareness, vast dimensions of awareness begin to open and self-reveal its nature to us. Awareness is a multidimensional experience and this awareness is infinite in its horizons. The innate qualities of awareness are spaciousness or openness or emptiness. Another quality of our awareness is luminous radiance and still another is awareness as energy. Awareness is alive and is both vast stillness and unceasing movement. The Union of Mind and Awareness When a person is able to experience the union of their mind and their awareness, then the person has a simultaneous experience of being in time and in timeless awareness. The mind is the place of thinking, feeling, sensation, memory and imagination and the mind is the mode of knowing singularity and difference in the world. This is the realm of ordinary knowingness and this is the realm of duality. Our mind is the realm of time. This time bound knowing is the knowing of you and I, us and them, this or that in time and place.
Este trabalho é sustentado pela dupla convicção de que caracterizar a noção de “carne” pela de “Visibilidade” nos permite, de um lado, evitar a maior parte dos mal-entendidos relacionados à interpretação da primeira e, de outro, permitiu... more
Este trabalho é sustentado pela dupla convicção de que caracterizar a noção de “carne” pela de “Visibilidade” nos permite, de um lado, evitar a maior parte dos mal-entendidos relacionados à interpretação da primeira e, de outro, permitiu ao último Merleau-Ponty desenvolver noções ontológicas extremamente inovadoras, que podem nos ajudar a pensar filosoficamente alguns dos fenômenos culturais mais pregnantes dos nossos dias. Entre esses fenômenos culturais, a nossa nova relação com as imagens é emblemática.
A working paper presented at "Thinking Through Nature" conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2008. Comments are welcomed. Please note that this document may not be cited or... more
A working paper presented at "Thinking Through Nature" conference of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2008.
Comments are welcomed. Please note that this document may not be cited or reproduced in whole or part without the author’s permission.
Le 10/12/2019 au Département de Philosophie de la Université de Saô Paulo (Brésil), je participerai au lancement du premier "READER", comme on l'appellerait en anglais, consacré à mon travail philosophique. Une étape très importante et... more
Le 10/12/2019 au Département de Philosophie de la Université de Saô Paulo (Brésil), je participerai au lancement du premier "READER", comme on l'appellerait en anglais, consacré à mon travail philosophique. Une étape très importante et significative dans mon parcours de recherche.
