The All

Let us consider the "All." By all I mean all phenomena, everything that occurs in our experience including those "phenomena" (or "noumena") that do not appear to the senses but are implicit in appearing phenomena. In short, an examination of all experience is the examination of the all.

The All is not limited to explicit phenomena as all appearances but includes the All that appears in and as an implicit dimension. The All is just this, everything, explicit or implicit. The All also includes the manner, the how of all experience. How does anything make itself known as a member of the All? How do all things appear to us and disappear from us? We shall look at some of the structures that appear as well as some of the structured, again explicit and implicit. 

It is important to note that this examination of the All is suggestive in the sense that what is said about any member of the All may suggest another aspect of the All. We cannot make explicit all of the All but for our project here it is not necessary to do so. The actual examination of some of the All has a higher purpose than learning about the All. It is one thing to learn and another to examine experience. Learning is an aspect of living but only one of many aspects or dimensions of experience.  

 

Why should we be concerned with this All? Our What can be said that may prove helpful in understanding this All? Why should we come to know the All? By "helpful" I mean helpful in the alleviation of our greatest human problem, suffering. All of us, yes all, wish to be happy or at least to avoid or lessen our suffering. Yet, there remains so many of us who simply do not know how to address the problem from within instead of relying on the very transient phenomena that cannot be counted on for our well-being. I am attempting to offer a small amount of help, at least I believe the material that will appear on this blog, along with the help others provide by way of their comments and contributions, will help to alleviate some of our suffering or difficulty we find in our experience.