Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, take them as gentle meditations and let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
Die Zeit in Gedanken Erfasst
Relation becomes important for the different modes of time as well. Dahr is the Absolute Time. This is the Time before any manifestation and before any attribute. That is why Ibn Arabi calls it "non-entity". In the Absolute, the Time is product of the Imagination of the Divine & just like Divine in its Absoluteness, is free from any attribute or entity. Or, beyond having any attribute, name or entity. Since us humans, cannot grasp something that has no attribute we call it imaginary. But because something is imaginary, that does not mean it is not real. This is a common misconception. The dream one dreams may be a product of imagination but the dream is real, as is the experience of the dream.
The Way of the Mask
Headlessness and decapitation is such a common religious motif because the head, that is, the face is the source of identity. We identify who we are, and who others are, mostly on the basis of face and our facial features. Is it a wonder then, when upon applying make up, one says to "feel different" or even as a "different person"? The reflection in the mirror is different, and we relate to that reflection with a different sentiment. Head, is also, the source of rational thought and ego - identity, which is the very core of the separation, but that is a topic for another essay.
The Metaphysics of Beauty Rituals
This female avatar is known as the goddess of Enchantment. Dancing and tricking the asuras into giving her the Amrita, she gives it back to devas. There are a few retellings of the story, and in some of them, Mohini is described as Maya, illusion of the Vishnu or even his false appearance. But in either case, the Maya or Illusion is used to serve the dharma, that is, the righteous action.
Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos
For this reason, there is a need for individual water carriers, because individual water carriers are the ones who make sure that the Truth is not forgotten. In profane times, even spiritual authority can be polluted and corrupted, but we can always appeal and look towards our Lord, towards that part of the Great Man in which the friends of our soul still live. There are angels, bodhisattvas, imams, saints, sages, mystics, who are still very much alive.
The Meaning of Pain
Perhaps the word they are looking for, or the feeling they are looking for is not happiness but rather contentment — the state of deep satisfaction, of realisation that even if life has had its sorrows, some big and some small, that you are still content, grateful and proud of the life you lived.