REALITY AND BEING - Substack format
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REALITY AND BEING
THE MEANING OF SOME COMMON WORDS, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY
By: BURNT ELIOT
* When reading this book for the first time, it is best to read from the beginning without skipping forward. Otherwise, the intended meanings of some words might not be obvious.
Key Words
REALITY is not subject to coming and going, nor to existing or not existing, nor to birth and death. But individual things are all subject to those limits. Reality is where everything happens; it is where time and space appear; it is like a theater wherein ILLUSION and UNREALITY appears.
BEING is the self-knowledge of reality; it is both the reality of knowing and the way that reality knows. EXISTENCE and NON-EXISTENCE refer to all the unreal things being perceives, feels, thinks, and imagines. This allows us to talk about being as the subjective knowledge of things like sensations, perceptions, dreams, ideas, and self-awareness.
AWARENESS is the direct knowledge of EXPERIENCE and INTUITION. Being is aware of and knows experience; although in reality, experiences are only made of countless other experiences from other places and other times. Through intuition, being is aware of its limitless reality.
Contents
1 - Words (an Introduction) - Where Is Here
2 - Reality and Unreality - Ancient Chinese Puzzle
3 - Being and Existence - Being Dreams Forgetting
4 - Awareness and Experience – Where Is Here (revisited)
5 - Appearing and Appearance - Seeing a Tree
6 - Self and Other - The Flowering of a Wonderful Law
7 - Container and Content – Where Is Here (revisited)
8 - Universe and World - The Seer and the Seen
9 - Allowing and Judging - We Always Do the Best We Can
10 - Allowing and Choosing - The Magician’s Trick
11 - Experiencing and Representing - The Five Paths
12 - Anticipating, Selecting, and Recognizing - Questions Children Ask
13 - Knowing and Intuiting - Ontological Monadology
14 - True and False – Where Is Here (revisited)
15 - Knowing-What and Knowing-That - The Robin
16 - Value and Judgement - Ocean of Light
17 - Casual Truth and Casual Context - Self-Sacrifice
18 - Universal Truth and Universal Context - Memory of Being Born
19 - Thing and Context - The Rain
20 - Relative Truth and Relative Context - The Mystery of the Ordinary
21 - Absolute and Relative - Intuition of Reality
22 - Discussion
Related
On Reality and Being — Annotated TOC with Key Definitions.
The simplest thing of all — The idea of Awakening and Remembering.
The 18 Story-Puzzles — Inspirations for the stories.
Cover
Formats
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