JOURNEY IN BEING

JOURNEY IN BEING:Quest for Realization of Greatest Being

Anil Mitra

Aims of the presentation

• Paint a picture in broad strokes• Focus on intrinsic worth of the

journey and on journey as adventure• Direct interest to the journey website

and printed content for finer strokes• Invite communication and

collaboration

Outline

1. What is ‘Journey in Being’?2. Who is the journey for?3. What are its ways?4. What is its scope?5. Progress so far.6. The future.7. An invitation.

1. What is ‘Journey in Being’?

• Began as personal discovery• Grew to discovery and realization

for all Being _____________

• Summary—Journey in Being is the Quest for realization of Greatest Being

2. Who is the journey for?

• Community of being—or:• Individuals and civilization

(individuals foster civilization; civilization nurtures the individual)

_____________

• Summary—Individuals and Civilization are the ‘vehicles’ of the journey

2.1 (An aside). What is civilization?

• Human civilization is the sum of human cultures and artifacts across time and continents

• The ground of our being and civilization is in nature

• Universal Civilization is the web of civilizations across the universe

3. What are the ways of the journey?

• Ideas or thought interacting with action distinguish higher ‘being’ from matter

• Ideation results in knowing• Action results in transformation _____________

• Summary—Ideas and Action arethe ways of the journey

4. What is the Scope of the journey?

• Preliminary development is useful• The next two slides establish that

the universe is limitless and that the individual realizes this limitlessness

• Though not simple, the argument is intuitive and supplements the formal narratives of the website

4.1 An excursion in ideas—Being

• Limits are of Being, not of its absence• The void is limitless• The universe has no limits—• Its variety, extent, duration has no limit• It has manifestation and identity in

acute, diffuse, and absent phases• Individuals realize the limitless

manifest form and identity of the universe

4.2 An excursion in ideas (continued)

• Realization is given but engagement enhances efficiency and enjoyment

• In limitless form realization is a moment

• In limited form realization is an endless journey (the journey has no limit)

• It is founded in the apparent limits of our form—especially birth, life, death

• Which are gates to the limitless

4.3 What is the scope of the Journey?

• Realization of limitless Being is endless

• This has been alluded to in metaphor such as ‘splendor of a thousand suns’

• Which metaphor is infinitesimal against the limitless

• But the journey begins with human abilities and disciplines of civilization

4.4 Scope of the Journey: Summary

• The scope of the journey is realization of limitlessness of the universe

• However, realization begins with and builds upon cultivation of ability and tradition

• Here, and in civilization and its ground—nature—are the places of work and ultimate adventure

5. Progress so far

• The ideas are mature• Transformation, always at beginning,

is built with ideas and experiment…• And upon civilization and its

disciplines—intrinsic such as yoga and instrumental as in science

• System details and ongoing reports of progress are at the journey website

5.1 (Aside) On Yoga and Science

• Yoga is intrinsic to being and includes meditation. Science is instrumental

• In Yoga, being here now and realization are dual essentials

• Yoga and science—identical at root—are the core disciplines

• The use of the terms here is related but not identical to general use

6. The future

• The disciplines are catalysts of growth• Experiments and ideas build on the

traditions• Nature-civilization is place of realization• Ability is our final rock on which to rely• We remember that life and death—i.e.

our being—are gates to the limitless

Summary of the presentation

• Realization of the limitless is given• In limited form realization is endless• Engagement enhances efficiency

and enjoyment of realization• Ideas and action are the means• Vehicles are individual and

civilization• We rely on idea and action to build

upon the disciplines of civilization

7. An Invitation

• I invite communication• I seek collaboration to establish an

organization for ideas and action (Road Ahead at the journey site below)

• Contact data and details of the journey are at http://www.horizons-2000.org