Toward a Naturalistic Perennialism
From lost chronicles of Spirituality in the ruin of Religions
In studying the Perennial Philosophy we can begin either at the bottom, with practice and morality; or at the top, with a consideration of metaphysical truths; or, finally, in the middle, at the focal point where mind and matter, action and thought have their meeting place in human psychology.
Aldous Huxley[1]
The Zen project is about awakening.
What awakening means has been reflected on for lifetimes.
The most important thing has been our own coming to a saving insight. It is the reconciliation of some understanding of the boundlessness of things and our living divided hearts. It is a reconciliation of heaven and earth.
Tied up with this is are a tumble of questions. What happens? And. How does this happen? Something similar appears to happen to human beings across cultures. So, is there a larger way to approach it? There’s Zen and the larger Mahayana project. There’s the Theravada. And there’s Taoism. And Hinduism. There are the Abrahamic traditions. Just beginning a list of traditions that have aspects that seem to point to that awakening.
So. So? How do we best approach the mystery?
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