All for Thee, not for "Me"

Let me begin by being very upfront with regard to the underlying bases for what will follow. My investigation into our sensorium and its functioning led me to these discoveries of more radical depths of, what is sometimes called in phenomenological philosophy, the constitution of experience, or often, the constitution of our intersubjective world. While phenomenology helped me to direct my attention to experience in a more disciplined manner as well as provide me with a language appropriate to it, it was meditation which yielded up or revealed the more profound depths of feeling, constitution, and freedom. Both feeling and kinesthesis are intimately involved in the constitution of experience and must be examined in phenomenology. However, phenomenology has its limits and meditation brings these limits into sharp relief. Meditation takes one to the very depths of what might be called the genesis of experience, from the empty depths of pure consciousness and the primordial desire or intention that one might say is its mate. The two together, distinguishable but separable only through death, function to provide us with our selves and our worlds.

 

As silence roared the music was born,

from its darkness, a flower too. 

The scentless demanded time for its fragrance to arise, 

only to serve up a memory of food from the tasteless.

The absence of feeling connected to the wind

all arising from an ownerless desire rooted in awareness

and it all came to life for awareness, including me. 

 

From the beginning, i.e., from the beginning of experience, there is a unity or wholeness between self, body, and situation. This unity is at such a depth of experience that it is, more often than not, overlooked by most of us, even the most observant. The flowering of phenomena, an ephemeral movement wherein the manifestation of phenomena is a dynamic process of both generation and dissolution occur simultaneously. All creation or manifestation of phenomena, rendering the insentient sentient, must and does occur at the same moment as the dissolution of phenomena leaving behind the trace of the now past present which, in turn, influences the living present in its movement toward a present future. All three times, past, present, and future occur simultaneously in a dynamic that captures sentience thus rendering the movement conscious.