~May I Be the Being I Know I Am~

Friday, October 13, 2006

Hey
Ok
So where am I now?
Indeed.
The fall has come, and school is full tilt.
I watch the frantic faces fly by wasting no time to say hi.
Oh my.
For me, the work is much and yet such a fulfilling trust.
We each have been entrusted with a piece of the truth; our personal truths hold personal meaning but may also be shared through compassionate feeling...
for the healing of beings in need of connection and introspection.
Yes, revealing the truth, the encompassing truth that speaks of our deep union with all beings and with our highest Self. Reflection on this is the name of the game; if we all are just one then we do not need names, our path is the same.
Not a path of shame, but a shared righteous claim. What is this claim?


It is the Great Movement. This is the name given to something un-nameable, pointing a finger into the ether and say, 'there!' Where?
The Great Movement is the process of God returning to itself, through a process of 'involution'. Aurobindo put this forward; its not rightly 'evolution', because that would imply striking outward and upward into new territory. Not so; this Great Movement is a Great Return; a return to our true and essential nature, which is Tao; which is Sunyata; which is atman; which is brahman; which is ishwar; which is that very thing that escapes all attempts to name.

This Great Movement is the focus of my thesis. Though such a title may seem daunting for a simple undergraduate thesis, i have concerned myself with only one aspect of this movement: Union.

Union is the state of being in wholeness or oneness and the process of coming into oneness or integration. I have chosen this word and definition purposefully because it implies both the state and the process- the state and the process are one and the same.

Union is a thesis that i am drawing through my final project in the attempt to articulate the importance of having personal and meaningful experiences of Union in regards to the Human chapter of the Great Movement. I am also concerned with how to bring these experiences about; the methods that precipitate Union.

Ultimately there are many if not countless methods of Union practice. What is important, i feel, is that these experiences are had on a personal and intimate level: the Here-And-Now Experience. The Here-And-Now Experience is this process and state of Union and the Great Movement is the arbitrary name i give to this divine play.

Below is the basic layout of my final project. Currently, i have completed in draft form everything up to chapter 2 and all of part 2.

The Path of the DharmaFarmer- Unity and the Great Movement

Title Page

Dedication

Declaration of Intention

Introduction: Concerning this Work

Table of Contents

Part 1: Unity and the Great Movement

Chapter 1: Orientation

Chapter 2: Aim

Chapter 3: The Doom of Our Time- Global Crisis

Chapter 3: Western Yoga

Chapter 4: The New-Old Vision

Chapter 5: Do Nothing


Part 2: Communal Unity

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Love Made Visible

Chapter 2: Aspects of an EcoVillage

Chapter 3: Co-Creating a Community

Chapter 4: Higher Education

Chapter 5: A Higher Purpose

Chapter 6: Sirius Community- Spiritual Permaculture

Chapter 7: A Personal Look- Member Interviews

Appendices

A: Other Methods for Unification

B: Book List

C: Crafting a Spiritual Div III

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Justin,
I've read through this post several times and am absolutely struck by how the "union" of all your experiences, personal and scholarly, are coming together in the "Union" theme of your thesis. I can truly see how each step along the way was important and essential to your preparation to accomplish this project. I look forward to reading the thesis as it comes into being, but already feel like I have a good feel for the overall content, having been a passive, but intensely interested, observer over these last several years...
Love,
Dad