WISDOM POINT: 2009

Change is the confirmation of the paradigm of purpose. Change is the confirmation of the understanding of purpose. Change is the confirmation of our completion in purpose. What is "purpose"?

The following 'video-quotes' are specifically selected to contemplate and explore the Wisdom Point as an orientation for what is real, what is good, and what is true. The titles or remarks above the individual video clips do not lay any claim to the content presented in them except for the Wisdom Point. You can find out more about the individual presenters or related content via the links at the end of each clip. You are invited to comment on any of the various points, aspects and features re-presented here or on the Wisdom Point as such. It makes my heart leap with joy.

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Yes Mom!

Better Now than Never!

Eckhart Tolle

The raw deal of BEING!

Ramana Maharshi

A great understanding of friction and integrality!

Thomas Hübl

Transcendence rules!

Thomas Hübl

The Mind of Non-duality, a requirement for the 'Creative Tension' of the 'Wisdom Point'

Roshi

I decided to include this talk as the Wisdom Point, because it checks out philosophically, historically, psychologically, as theater, and as a re-collection.

OSHO

Now let's get serious!

Ramana Maharshi

For the ones who appreciate the metaphysics of primordial being!

Martin Heidegger

Essencing and me-awareness!

Eckhart Tolle

Dynamic Meditation.

Reality Check!

The Academic Grasp on the Wisdom Point! A bit dry, but well worth understanding.

Otto Scharmer

Yes, my Lady!

A good framing for the collective cultivation of Cosmic Consciousness!

The Wisdom Point has come a long way throughout the ages. The following clip is an effective exposition of the ego-narratives of me-awareness. In addition there is also a self narrative which constitutes the space of "my"personal/cultural experience of the world, known as 'subjectivity'. If we are able to enter into this space of experience of someone else we become inter-subjective in our understanding of the world. If we realize the universal self we become objective in our understanding of the world. Me-awareness: subjective --> inter-subjective --> objective. The 'objectivity' heralded by science in contrast is not me-awareness, but it-awareness.

A very interesting and progressive engagement of sensation and desire to get out of the imposition of the conditioned or reactive mind. Observe the difference between ordinate desire as an opening up and inordinate desire as a closing down.

Plato's analogy of the "Cave" from ca. 2400 years ago exposes the relation between phenomenon and re-presantation in terms of what really IS. This has held the nose of Western Culture to the grind stone of truth ever since: Essence--> Presence --> Presentation (phenomenon)--> Re-presentation (reflection)...What is a "fact" ?

Plato's Teacher. A fine exposition on Socrates. The need for radical understanding, and the ethics of this radical positioning.

How much did consciousness change in 2000 years since Plato? How much did our trouble escalate? World War I, World War II, and now?

We are fortunate that this brilliant mind weighs down on the side of integral spirituality. It is important to make critical distinctions! He provides an excellent developmental orientation for our current socio-political situation. There is no way around that. We have to come to terms with politics and government. We can not stay on the side lines anymore.

Ken Wilber

The threefold question at the basis of all metaphysics, religion, philosophy, science, politics, as the Wisdom Point: 1. the question of being, or authenticity, or reality; 2. the question of conduct, or morality, or the Good; and 3. the question of knowledge, or cognition, or the truth. In our psyche we experience these questions as 1. me-awareness; 2. you-awareness; and 3. it-awareness.

The Question of Knowledge (see post above this one) as it developed in the Western Tradition. When the author refers to "substance" he uses the Latin translation 'substantia' for the original Greek 'OUSIA', which means the Good of something as Being or Essence, which Heidegger referred to as 'Thinghood'. The battle between innate and absolute knowing versus external and relative perception is typical for one sided it-awareness. For the Wisdom Point we have to consider Essencing and Presencing as the unity of Rationalism and Empiricism, where innate mind and perception are one in Beauty and Love, because me-awareness, you-awarenesss and it-awareness are in dynamic balance. Thus we make everything NEW.

ONE World, ONE Humanity!

ONE World, ONE Humanity - The WORK across all levels, regions, and orientations.

The Question of Conduct or achieving the Highest Good - ONE World, ONE Humanity.

Vedic Chanting. Science of the Spoken Word.

Beauty

Dance as synthesis of sacred transformation, pantomime, storytelling, geometry, symmetry, rhythm, beauty

'Perception' and 'Soul'. The very radical question that Plato asked himself more than 2000 years ago: How come "things" or "perceptions" have permanence at all as a distinct identity arresting the constant flow of time in forms to be perceived or presented? And his student Aristotle later developed the logic of this form that arrests "matter" as identity: A equals A, A does not equal B, A does not equal A plus B, which gave the Western tradition the distinct understanding of a thing that is at the root of all modern science.

A distinction for the spiritually mature! On one side me-awareness as the self preoccupation with personal experience and achievement in (the course of) time which leads to self serving spiritual materialism. On the other side me-awareness as the raw reality of being or being of reality. If we are unreal about life, existence and being, than true spirituality has to make us more real, which is a tough sell for any spiritual teacher. Spiritual materialism enhances our unreality exponentially and indefinitely and it is popular and easily commercialized.
Of course, there needs to be room and time for the soul to bloom into this maturity. There is a fine, but adamant line between the conscious development of the soul and spiritual materialism as 'soul-indulgence'. An attitude of intelligent service or stewardship to the integral purpose of LIFE is the key to curbing any over indulgence of personal experience and time.

Krishnamurti with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

This is a great exposition of the central dimension of the wisdom space as employed by wisdom point: inside(inward)-outside(outward).
There are three other dimensions:
above(upward)-below(downward),
in front(forward)-behind(backwards),
and right-left.
All four dimensions prescribe our soul potential in time and space and define any meditation or religious belief and practice, as well as metaphysics.
For example: above(upwards)-below(downwards): The earth is below, beneath our feet. It supports us. We stand, sit, lie, walk, run, or jump on it. The sky (for the atheist) or heaven(for the believer in God) is above our head. What is below is the grounding or foundation; what is above is transcendent vastness that draws us; both "meet" spherically as the horizon. We have to look up to see or find what is "higher" and down to find the "lower". Class systems and hierarchies, levels, and computer menus are ordered in this dimension. Below is associated with weight, and above with lightness. Objectively, in it-awareness, there is no above or below in space! Yet we have the convention that the North is up and the South is down. The whole evolution of humanity seems to indicate a vertical orientation. This orientation is obviously a disadvantage in terms of balancing the body. No other mamal is as much prone to falling down like a human being!