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Guardian G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling

"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration, memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please click here.

 

Upcoming talk: Yoga Ananda, Reigate, Surrey on Friday the 4th of June

Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at a seminar on The Blissful Brain on Friday, 04th June 2010 at 19:30 at Yoga Ananda Ltd. 46 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9EL. For more information, please click here.

Interrelatedness of All Things

The interrelatedness of all things is a prominent feature of the Perennial Philosophy. As we have seen, this states that there is an Ultimate Reality that gives rise to and transcends our physical reality. The limited reality that we can apprehend with the five physical senses is seen to be embedded within, and sustained by, a limitless Ultimate Reality.

One of the essential principles of mysticism is the awareness that all phenomena are manifestations of an all-pervading and interconnected Ultimate Reality, and accordingly should be viewed as being both interdependent and inseparable. In Hinduism this Ultimate Reality is referred to as Brahman, in Buddhism as Dharmakaya, in Taoism as Tao, and in esoteric Christianity as the Godhead. In all of these traditions, transcendental experiences of the Ultimate Reality are associated with a sense of all-pervading unity. The distinction between “self” and “non-self” dissolves, and the ordinary-state perception of this and that are viewed as an illusion. In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the mystics refer to the Ultimate Reality as the Void. The Void is seen to be formless, but not empty; all matter is derived from it, and therefore it is viewed as the source of all life, a source of infinite potential. In the West, the word “void” is derived from the Latin word vacivus meaning empty. However, in Christianity, the “void” or “emptiness” is seen to be plenitude or “fullness”.

The idea that every single component of our Universe contains information about all of the other cosmic components is mirrored in the philosophy of the 5th Century Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. He proposed that nature was built up of an infinite number of minute parts, invisible to the eye, and that, contained within each of these minute parts, there are the fragments of all other things i.e. “the whole exists in each tiny part”. Similarly, in the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Ultimate Reality is pictured as being holographic in nature.

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