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
- 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