341.15 Resources: Advaita/Yoga/Meditation

Review dualism/half-dualism/non-dualism

• tendency of Hindu systems toward spirit half-dualism
• tendency of Western systems toward matter half-dualism

Gunas as practical resolution of purusha/prakriti toward non-dualism

• theory of the gunas: sattwa, rajas, tamas
• recognizes a "mixing" of spirit and matter
• kind of artificial non-dualism

Advaita as non-dualism

• "not two"
• "post-critical" recovery of the ground of noumenal/phenomenal
  • ~'second naivete'
• transformative, alternative metaphysic: neither dual nor half-dual
• allows for re-sacralization of manifest world [nature]
• allows for re-materialization of the psyche

Yoga

• yoga as the means of half-dual moksha
• yoga as the means of non-dual moksha
• association of non-dual moksha with tantra/vajra
  • sexual imagery: left, right

Mediation as the being-world of non-dual yoga

• serenity of psyche, sense, space
• not a radical asceticism, but enlightened transformation of being-in-the-world
• alternative to non-deliberate living
• alternative to consumerist materialism
• alternative to consumerist escapism [fantasy]

Applications

• spiritual formation, healing
• "arts & crafts"
• living: forms of life
• perspective/point of view