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Transcript of RT 201: “RELIGION AND THE HUMAN QUEST” THE PLAN. FOUR SEGMENTS 1.BASIC PHILOSOPHY OF...
FOUR SEGMENTS
1. BASIC PHILOSOPHY OF ‘RELIGION’
2. ICONS OF COSMOS3. ICONS OF RELATIONSHIPS,
SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY4. ICONS OF HUMAN DESTINY
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THE “PLAN”
FOUR SEGMENTS:1. BASIC PHILOSOPHY OF “RELIGIONHistory and etymologyDefinition: “Religion”=
Intensive and Comprehensive Valuing Committed and holistic life-quest
Vocabulary: holy, sacred, power, tradition...Plato’s Cave and Line
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State of Mind Mental Activity Object/Outcome
EPISTEMEABSTRACT THINKING
NOESISMeta-physics
ARCHAIFirst Principles
DIANOIAMETHOD, LOGIC
REASON, CALCULATION
MATHEMATIKA
LEARNED CONCLUSIONS
DOXAKnowing from direct experience
PISTISKnowing from personal
experience
ZOAKnowledge of
Particular Things
EIKASIAImaging, Imagining
EIKONESSymbols, arts
(imitations)
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RELIGION AND THE HUMAN QUEST…
• PISTIS EXPERIENCE OF PARTICULARS• EIKASIA IMAGINING THE WORLD
AND OURSELVES• EIKONES THAT RECORD OUR
EXPERIENCE• DIANOIA THAT ALLOWS US TO STUDY
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
ICONS OF COSMOS • SIMPLE COSMOLOGICAL EXPRESSIONS
– Chant, dance, and contingency
• LAKOTA STAR COSMOLOGY AND LIFE STYLE– Directions, experience, value– Constellations, geography and seasons– Wakan– Tipi and Sun Dance
• UNITY OF CHINESE EXPERIENCE• LAO TZE excerpts from TAO TE CHING
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WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
A HINDU RESPONSE (Smith 72):
1. A multiple world that includes innumerable galaxies horizontally, innumerable tiers vertically, and innumerable cycles temporally
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHAT’S YOUR pistis?HOW DO YOU KNOW?!
1.How vast is your image of the world?Does cosmic vastness have any meaning? Is it
valuable? Does it matter to the human life search?
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
2. Is the cosmos indifferent to human action?
Is human commitment (intensiveness) without meaning?
Does human decision count?Why do we care if we or others are
indifferent or fanatical?
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
3. A middling world that will never replace paradise as the spirit’s destination
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
3. What lies ahead for us? Individually? Collectively? How could we know?
What’s in your pistis? What’s the ground of wanting more? What are the limits of life quest?
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
4. A world that is maya, deceptively tricky in passing off its multiplicity, materiality, and dualities as ultimate when they are actually provisional.
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
4. Can we humans be mistaken? What do we do to get it right? Are there absolute conditions or only temporary ones? Can anything we do have meaning if the conditions are only temporary?
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
5. A training ground on which people can develop their highest capacities
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
5. Can we learn? Can we secure and pass our learning experience on? How?
Whom do we trust? What value does my individual experience have?
Is 1 in 7 Billion an adequate sample?
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
6. A world that is lila, the play of the Divine in its Cosmic Dance—untiring, unending, resistless, yet ultimately beneficent, with a grace born of infinite vitality.
WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?
6. Do words like JOY, HAPPINESS, FULFILLMENT, SUCCESS have any lasting meaning?
Is reality “gracious”?
ICONS OF RELATIONSHIP, SOCIETY, COMMUNITY
• INDIA:–VARNA/CASTE: work and social
organization–HOLY COWS: Indian ecology and
economy• CONFUCIUS: Deliberate tradition
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ICONS OF RELATIONSHIP, SOCIETY, COMMUNITY
• FIVE PILLARS: The architecture of community
• Genesis 2-3: Cosmos and Community
• SANTOS: Community of Holy Persons on Earth and in Heaven
ICONS OF HUMAN DESTINY
• YOGA: the quest/search and human differences
• 4 NOBLE TRUTHS/8 FOLD PATH• ZEN & JODO• KINGDOM OF GOD: Holy Week
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