Innate Nature and the A Priori Awareness of History

The innate nature is fashioned with knowledge. We literally become neurologically a part of the culture we are born into through the fashioning of the innate neurological design. This fashioning is caused by the creation of sub-modular brain areas in relativity with the knowledge contained by the cultural databases and the trends in the memes that occupy the mass mind. The brains are also shaped by the adaptation to the psychological nuances of culture, including the language the brains are subjected to learn.

The created history will always generate a priori awareness for the future generations. The nature of our history, its movements, the nature of humanity, the ages and the kingdoms, the rulers, and so on are sources for what generates awareness.

And there is a great difference between the known history and the history as it was experienced. Even though the veterans of the Second World War are still living, my generation has only knowledge of the war. I have seen videos of it. I have read of it. I have listened to the experiences of the veterans. But my knowledge of that war is a priori, not a posteriori. This is a significant difference. My post-innate nature has not been fashioned by the war. My neurological design has not been influenced by the atrocities committed in that baffling and darkest era in human history. The war is only a part of my representational awareness. Similarly to how most of the reality as I know it in the form of a priori is.

For me, the Second World War is but a page in history, and feels as if being in the distant past. Yet, the generations who fought that war are as alive as I am. And therefore it is not far. The timeline of us having an eternity behind us and an eternity in front of us speaks of how brief our own lives are. In the timeline of infinity, a hundred generations is but a flash of light in an atom of infinite cosmos. So, the influences of history in neurophysiological level of adapting to the nuances of the culture as well as the creation of a priori awareness from the days of Christian inquisition are still scourging inside the mass mind. And in eternity, the events that took place two thousand years ago are far nearer than what the a priori awareness makes us to believe.

Our actions and the history we create have far greater consequences than what we assume first handedly. And in the timelines we deal in the cosmos, we should take more steps towards global ethical development and universal humanity.

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Music of Nature

An ancient Chinese philosopher, Zhuangzi, was known as a founder of Taoism. His philosophy was written in a form of fables. These stories contain profound wisdom of life, truth in nature, and a way of thinking. Many of them are useful to us who are living more than 200 years later than his age. Here is one of the interesting stories.

One day, Zhuangzi was meditating, folding his legs crossed. He looked unconscious. He appeared to be not feeling anything. He looked almost dead. One of his students walked close to him, meditating. Worried, this student asked Zhuangzi if he was okay. The student needed to shout into his ears to bring him back to consciousness. Asked again what he was doing, Zhuangzi answered that he was listening and enjoying music of nature. "Music of nature?" the student asked again, puzzled. The student had never heard of it.

The master then explained to his student. All nature's activities have scenes, colors, smells, shapes, and music. If wind blows through a forest, it creates sounds. When a flower blooms, it gives out a sound. The sound of birds flying, a bug buzzing, a dog barking, or even human footsteps form music of nature.

The master continued. The interesting thing is that this music of nature can be heard not by the people who can hear sound, but by the people who are willing to listen to the sound. It is a message from nature. It alerts people about the coming storm. It reminds people the spring is near. It tells them that the next day will be rainy.

If one is not willing to listen to this music, it is just sound, and may be taken as noise. However, the music of nature always gives meaning to those who are willing to listen and take it seriously. The master asked the student if he had seen the color of the wind.

This story is nothing specific for people who do not feel something from it and try to pick up on its meaning. It took me a long time to understand that this story was more meaningful than it seemed when I first read it. The story teaches us that we can pick up messages from nature if we are willing to receive them. It might not be only about the nature. If you are willing to listen to music or a message from nature, society, a market, or any of our surroundings, you will be surprised what there is to learn. There may be messages that bring you success, or perhaps for a happy and peaceful life.

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Sharing My Knowledge on Vedanta - Nature of Jiva and Isvara

Jiva: is the Sat-Cit-Anada-principle qualified (seemingly possess the qualities of the conditioning) as the microcosmic conditioning; by the individual gross, subtle and causal bodies and thus Sat-Cit-Anada-principle seemingly appears to possess the limitations.

Atman: is the substratum of Jiva. Atman, also 'Self' is unaffected by the conditioning. Atman can also be described as Sat-Cit-Anada principle from the perspective of Jiva.

Isvara: is the Sat-Cit-Anada-principle qualified as unlimited macrocosmic conditioning by the cosmic gross, subtle and causal bodies.

Brahman: is the substratum of the macrocosmic conditioning of Isvara. Brahman can also be described as Sat-Cit-Anada principle from the perspective of Isvara.

The differences between Jiva and Isvara

• Jiva has limited knowledge vs. Isvara has boundless knowledge
• Jiva is limited by time & space vs. Isvara is all-pervading & eternal
• Jiva strives for Liberation vs. Isvara free of bondage and therefore no need to strive for Liberation
• Isvara is the entire controller of cosmos and Jiva
• Isvara presents and controls maya vs. Jiva is deluded by maya and is ignorant of its own nature
• Isvara dispenses fruits of Jiva's actions and Isvara is detached from his actions because of self-knowledge, which is his nature. Vs. Jiva, being ignorant of Self-knowledge is conditioned by the gross, subtle and causal bodies and assumed he is the doer and also the sense of enjoyer ship, causing bondage.
• Alpa-sakthiman of limited power vs. Sarva shaktiman -all powerful
• Jiva is Lorded over vs. Isvara is Lord
• Jiva is deluded by maya vs. Isvara is the wielder of Maya and remains unaffected
• Jiva experience both bondage & liberation vs. Isvara is devoid of bondage & liberation

Is the difference between Jiva and Isvara illusory?

The Jiva and Isvara are one and the same. They appear to be different due to the microcosmic conditioning of the Sat-cit-ananda by the individual gross, subtle and causal bodies which is Jiva and the macrocosmic conditioning of the Sat-cit-ananda by the cosmic gross, subtle and causal bodies.

Vedas present a variety of examples to emphasize the importance of the concept of ONE appearing as many. First is the wave in the ocean. Even though each wave appears to be different, they cannot exist without the water in the ocean. The cause 'water' alone is nithya- Real and the form of water is mithya -unreal.

Another example is of gold as the basis for different types of jewelry like bangles, bracelets, chain, anklets etc. None of these would exist without the base metal, gold.

Electricity is another example often used, though not perceivable powers all equipment. Without that power, which is the cause, none of the electrical equipment would function, may it be a fan, light bulb, oven, toaster or a refrigerator.

Another popular one is the clay and pots. The pot, mug, plate, jug which are all different when the form is seen but they're all the same when we see the basic item with which they all are made of, which is clay. Similarly, all forms and names in this universe appear different (whether it is an ant, elephant, a human or a plant!) but the substratum is the same which the Isvara (Existence, Consciousness, bliss).

Clay is the cause for all those items; so also Existence is alone is the cause of all forms in this universe. Existence alone IS. Everything else is the manifestation from that source.

Clay and water, the cause can have independent existence; exist by themselves. The effects are merely the forms and names, categorized as amithya, unreal and illusory.

So also, the entire cosmos, which appears in various forms & shapes, due to micro and macrocosmic conditioning is but illusory and is the manifestation of the ONE supreme existence, which is Sat-Cit-Ananda principle. When we falsify these conditioning, one will understand that there is no distinct difference between Jiva and Isvara, what remains is the Sat-Cit-Ananda principle (Existence) alone.

Therefore it is the One that appears as many is nothing but maya, illusion.

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Zeno's Paradoxes, Part I - The Problematic Nature of Infinity and Motion

Zeno of Elea (490-430 BCE) studied under and remained very loyal to his great teacher, Parmenides, who also was from Elea. Scholars credit Zeno as being the first person in Western history to evidence the problematic nature of infinity.

Unfortunately, we have been left with very little of Zeno's original work. Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, and Simplicius wrote very much on Zeno's work, and it is from these thinkers that we derive most of our information on him. Aristotle, however, wrote the most extensively on Zeno. Our lack of primary resources have forced scholars to interpret Zeno through secondary resources and speculate on some of his original arguments. In many cases, scholars leave us only educated guesses.

I must also note that many debate Zeno's intentions in writing so comprehensively on what is now known as "Zeno's Paradoxes." Traditionally, most agree that Zeno attempted to build upon Parmenides work. However, some suggest he sought to discredit Parmenides' work; others claim he criticized the traditionally held Greek views on motion; and more recently, interpreters propound that he was combatting Pythagorean thinkers.

Differing interpretive opinions, as we see on many other texts, do persist today as to how we may appropriately read Zeno. In a similar vein, the most fair interpretation would include much more mathematical examination than I am willing to provide. In light of these two statements, I will simply lay out Zeno's nine paradoxes according to the traditional interpretation put forward by Plato.

The Achilles Paradox. Imagine Achilles and another -- obviously slower -- runner. When the slower man starts running, Achilles then chases after him. However, by the time Achilles reaches the point where the other man presently is, the runner will have moved on to a new point. Then Achilles must run to a new point, from which the runner, again, has already moved, ad infinitum. From the traditional interpretation, Zeno wishes to discredit motion, or change, as a mere illusion in accordance with Parmenides' philosophy.

The Racetrack Paradox. Also known as the "progressive dichotomy," the racetrack paradox begins with a runner on a track with fixed starting and finish lines. Zeno argues that the runner will never reach a fixed point on the track. As the runner moves halfway towards the finish line, he must then run halfway through the second half, and he next runs half of that remainder, ad infinitum. This shows that a man may never move between fixed points and, again, supports Parmenides' view on motion and change.

The Arrow Paradox. Imagine that time exists as a sequence of "timeless" moments in space. In such a world, an archer shoots an arrow. The arrow, however, only takes up as much space as the arrow is long. So, in every moment, the arrow is taking up a space equal to its length. But in each moment, the arrow is not moving because there is no time for the arrow to move; it is stuck in a certain place (space) in each moment. Since places do not move, the arrow also never moves. We certainly see a trend here: motion is an illusion and does not exist.

The Stadium or Moving Rows Paradox. Zeno here proposes a very weak paradox, at least in its assumption, but highlights a very important concept in Physics. However, this paradox will take several sentences to explain. In this paradox, he wishes to refute a commonly held belief of the time. The belief held said that a body of fixed length that traverses the fixed distance of another body will do so in the same amount of time if the former body were to traverse the second distance (or body) again.

Zeno contests this theory, proposing another paradox. Imagine a stadium where there are three equal, parallel, horizontal, and linear tracks. On track A, there is a stationary vehicle A, that rests in the center of the track; on track B, there is a vehicle B that starts from the very left of the track and moves at a constant speed, X, toward the right of the track; and on track C, there is a vehicle C that starts from the very right of the track and moves at a constant speed, X, toward the left of the track. It turns out that vehicles B and C pass one another in half the time that it takes for either vehicle B or C to pass A. He merely points out what we now consider relative velocity, but in this scenario, he stretches the analogy in attempt to state the following point that Aristotle paraphrases in his Physica: "it turns out that half the time is equal to its double."

For diagrams and a similar, yet longer explanation, read this article on Zeno's Moving Rows in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Limited and Unlimited Paradox. Suppose there are many things in the world, but there is a fixed, or limited, amount, as opposed to just one thing in world, as Parmenides would say. If there are two things, they must be distinct from one another, but for them to be distinct, there must also be a third thing that separates them, or makes them distinct, namely a space or distance. Then for three things to exist, there must be a fourth thing... ad infinitum. So, for many things to exist, they would be both limited and unlimited, and this is impossible. Therefore, Zeno concludes, like Parmenides, there is only One Thing.

Stay tuned for the next segment, when I shall espouse the final four paradoxes and their significance to philosophical, mathematical, and scientific worlds.

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The Next Generation of Human Nature and Civilization

The traditional American philosophy is characterized by the concept of natural law and the rule of law, etc. That our social and political laws should reflect the natural laws of human nature. They're based on the premise that self interest and competition are inherent attributes of human nature.

Our social and governmental systems are designed to channel these natural aspects of human nature into a more perfect union. It is designed with three main branches of government that are equal, so they could compete with each other and prevent any one branch from becoming oppressive.

At the same time the US government was being formed, Adam Smith published his famous book, The Wealth of Nations. I haven't read that book, but I understand that it proposes that this philosophy of self interest and competition are natural and healthy. This post modern philosophy, that everything is subjective and self oriented was very popular at that time.

I believe that the Enlightenment philosophy of realism and essentialism are an accurate understanding of human nature and reality. Objective reality exists completely independent of anyone's perception of it. I also agree with the existential principles of personal responsibility, self determination and free enterprise. They're inherent attributes of human nature, that exist in harmony with an ecosystem that includes limitations upon the expression of that creative freedom inherent in human nature.

The American Revolution was a giant leap forward, relative to the rule of man, the aristocracy, nobility and feudalism that it revolutionized. The evidence of that is the dramatic transformation of the social and economic development of human civilization that has occurred since the American Revolution.

Then, in response to the World Wars of the 20th century, the United Nations and the Bretton Woods banking system was set up. The UN is based on the premise that human beings are cooperative, and strives to establish peace and justice for all people everywhere, with special emphasis on protecting the poorest, most disadvantaged of earth's citizens.

The Bretton Woods banking system, setting up the World Bank and the IMF, etc., is based on the US dollar. It is now essentially bankrupt. The United Nations has recovered from the devastation of World War 2 and the wealth is distributed much more widely.

World business and government leaders are currently consulting, at the United Nations, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Economic Forum, etc., about how to replace that unipolar Bretton Woods system, with a more global social and economic development framework, and to achieve that transition as peacefully as possible.

The philosophical, social and economic development progress that we've made, between the American Revolution and the founding of the United Nations, is again dramatic. It is another giant leap forward in our understanding of human nature and civilization.

Human civilization is whatever we, the people of earth, make it. We are free agents, who are responsible and accountable for own actions. Civilized human human beings cooperate with each other based on the rule of law, rather than compete with each other for food and shelter like wild animals and that whole Darwinian struggle for survival of the fittest.

Of course, we do have those natural instincts that we've inherited from our animal heritage. However, we also have the rule of law, first revealed in our world's religions and then reflected in the social and economic development of human nature and civilization.

The entire human race is one universal common wealth. The United Nations is our global federation of nations. I am very patriotic about the USA. I've studied its history and philosophy extensively, and consider the USA to be one of the greatest founding members of the United Nations. The American nation and people have done more to advance the cause of human rights than any other nation or people in history.

I just feel like the United Nations philosophy is superior to the USA philosophy, just like the USA philosophy is superior to the feudalism that it replaced. Teaching the American people the value of peace and cooperation with our global community is important and difficult. It is important because in order to have world peace, the American people have to agree to participate in our world community in a peaceful and respectful way.

It is going to be difficult because of the traditional American values, which are good values, of independence, self interest and competition are so ingrained in our American consciousness. Other nations are going to have to go through the same difficult process of giving up that tribal attitude of superiority. The rest of the world will not accept American hegemony, and rightly so. We're not going to accept China being the Middle Kingdom either.

We're all going to have to give up our provincial, tribal, racial and national sense of superiority. We can and will live in peace and harmony with each other and our natural habitat. We're making tremendous progress. The whole world economy is booming. There is more wealth and prosperity, more widespread now, than ever before in the history of earth.

And we have a lot of progress to make. That's why it is so important to educate the American people, and the world's people, to unite. Unite the clans! Let us get together into this universal common wealth that our ancestors have created, and make it work. Let's create a more perfect union, that includes all human beings everywhere.

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This Is The Nature Of The Beasts And Demons Of Life

Life is hard at times, and easy at other times, in that order. Sure, we win to the extent we sell out, some think, out of fear of the beasts and demons that life throws at us. Actually we make them ourselves and I can tell you how. When we inflate things worse than they are, that is one way we make the beast, the beast or demons into irritating demons. When we eliminate fear at all levels and claim our genuine power, that is seemingly hard and horrifying until it is done. After it is done, the next level is made and the next collection of beasts and demons get easier and easier until we have won and control the game.

So, let me give an analogy: Once I played a video game of Pac-Man on June twelfth, nineteen eighty three, and this game was memorable, because I made it to the final level of the game where the ghosts reflexes were almost as fast as mine, and the pretzel was worth one hundred thousand points. Life can be just like that game of Pac-Man at a certain level, a little more complex and complicated, but you go from level to level the same way until you master the whole game, not necessarily stopping playing but takes those skills and do more with them. I do not know, master Centipede and Asteroids also, like you can master other beasts, demons, and areas of life. I mastered Centipede and Asteroids also, but that is not the point of this analogy. The point of this analogy is that life is a game type illusion that can be easily mastered and won over when you really look at it logically, honestly, objectively and realistically and act with it the same way. The demons and beasts can become small and even become nothing and you can honestly say "send me another round, I am a winner!"

Sure, what I am saying about this seems a little extreme, but it is the purest reality of the situation I can or will give you. Desperation makes things seem extreme, but when you come to yourself and your power, you or anyone, including myself realize that everything is easy to win no matter what it rationally takes. Even winning baseball, basketball or any sport is the same way. So it is with life and existence itself. Thank you for reading.

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Zeno's Paradoxes, Part II - The Problematic Nature of Infinity and Motion

This article is the second and final installment of a two-part series on Zeno of Elea. In the first article, we noted the first five paradoxes on Zeno, in addition to some interpretive gray areas. I should note again that scholars debate the most appropriate interpretation of Zeno, particularly in light of our limited primary sources. For the sake of this article, I hold to the traditional interpretation of Zeno, put forth by Plato, in which Zeno's paradoxes build on and support the work of this teacher Parmenides. I will conclude by briefly considering the huge impact Zeno has made on Western Philosophy.

Large and Small Paradox. Zeno contends that if a plurality exists, then any part of a plurality will be simultaneously so small as to have no size and so large as to be infinite in size. How does Zeno come to this conclusion?

To begin, Zeno demonstrates how parts of plurality may be so small as to have no size. We must first assume parts of plurality are not pluralities themselves because we can divide pluralities into parts but parts cannot be divided any further. Parts likewise must have no size because anything with size can be divided into parts, and parts cannot be divided any further. Therefore, parts are so small that they have no size at all.

On the other hand, all parts of a plurality must be infinite in size. A plurality must have a size to be divided into parts. However, if the parts have no size then the plurality as a whole will have no size and cease to be a plurality. Therefore, each part of a plurality must have a size greater than zero. And each sub-part of every part must have a size greater than zero, and each sub-sub-part must have a size greater than zero as well, ad infinitum, making the sizes of the parts of a plurality all equal to infinity because they are infinitely divisible and can be infinitely summed.

We see in this paradox that Zeno wishes to demonstrate the problems of a metaphysics of plurality. As a result, he further adds credibility to Parmenides' monistic metaphysics.

Infinite Divisibility Paradox. Again, we will see Zeno attack metaphysics of plurality. Consider, if you will, an object that you divide in half, then further split those halves in half, and divide the remainders in half, so on and so forth, ad infinitum. If we were to ever complete this task, Zeno suggests that we would end up with the metaphysical "elements," and we could make three inferences from these elements.

First, the elements are nothing(s), and the elements "add" up to make the original object, and you cannot add a series of nothing's to make something. Therefore, the elements cannot be nothing. Secondly, the elements are something(s) yet have no size(s). Again, adding elements that have no size will equal an object of no size, and an object of no size cannot be divisible. Thirdly and finally, the elements are something(s) and have size(s) as well. If the elements have size(s), then the elements can be divided further and cease to be elements, and we are left with the original problem.

Therefore, Zeno concludes that infinite divisibility is not a possible operation because it presupposes a metaphysics of plurality. Rather, the world would appropriately be one, unified whole that cannot be divided, as Parmenides argued.

The Grain/Bushel of Wheat Paradox. Imagine a bushel of wheat falling from a table to the floor. We all agree that the bushel will make a noise when hitting the ground. However, hundreds, even thousands, of parts make up the individual grains that make up the bushel. But we do not hear a sound when one-thousandth of grain hits the floor. How is that these parts do make sounds when they are dropped, but the whole bushel makes a sound? Zeno points out here that a monastic metaphysics is more plausible than a metaphysics of plurality.

The Place(s) Paradox. We may safely assume that every single thing corresponds to its own place. So, everything that exists has a place, since a place is a thing that does exist, it will also have its own place, and that place its own place, ad infinitum. We therefore conclude that there are an infinite number of places for every single thing, which contradicts our original premise. Although this paradox does not directly support Parmenides' philosophy, it does discredit a the commonly held belief in his time, that suggested all places must have their own places.

Zeno, in his brilliance, highlighted very important concepts, namely infinity and plurality, to show their shortcomings and further reinforce his teacher's philosophy. His works on infinity long baffled mathematicians, and it was not until the introduction of calculus that mathematicians could appropriately solve some of Zeno's paradoxes. Even now, Physicists and Chemists continue to search for the most basic particles, or the "God-particle," with Zeno's presupposition that infinity is not a practical possibility.

Not only was he brilliant, but he was innovative. Instead of writing his philosophy in poetic forms as the Pre-Socratics before him, he wrote very extensively in prose, which is still the most common genre in Philosophy and Science. Aristotle sang Zeno's praises for his innovation as well, but not for his writing. In fact, Aristotle attributes to Zeno the invention of the "dialectic."

The dialectic became hugely important to later philosophers, most notable Hegel. By relying on Zeno, Hegel even justified his inherently contradictory metaphysics. Bertrand Russell too noted Zeno's significance to the academy in general, when he stated, "Zeno's arguments, in some form, have afforded ground for almost all theories of space and time and infinity which have been constructed from his time to our own."

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Thinking About Nature and Us

The stock market is still facing many ups and downs. The international community is not stable due to earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant damages in Japan. Despite the uncertainties in the economy and society, our lives continue. There is a middle school in the block next to our home. As a part of the park that they call "Green Road," there is a vacant land covered with grasses in the north side of the school. It looks like an idol land, but it used to look lovely and green, adding a breathing space in our neighborhood.

It was November last year when they started to build huge buildings on that vacant space. As construction went on, we found that they were constructing gymnasium buildings forming a part of the middle school. The buildings look stylish and elegant. However, I sometimes miss the sprawling green space that exist before they started to build these buildings.

This construction reminds me of an ancient Chinese myth. It is a story showing a naturalistic character of "Taoism." In the North Sea, there was a kingdom ruled by legalism. Its king's name was "Shuku." In the South Sea, there was a kingdom ruled by emotionalism. Its king's name was "Kotsu." There was a kingdom in the Central Sea. Its king's name was "Konton." The three kings often met in Konton's palace. King Konton did not have a fix body shape. He did not have eyes, ears, noses, and mouth. He looked like a cloud, which could not be touched.

Since Shuku and Kotsu had an excellent time in Konton's palace, they decided to give Konton a gift. They decided to give Konton eyes, ears, nose and a mouth. Despite the expectation of Shuku and Kotsu after they finished making holes for Konton, Konton died.

Konton is a Japanese words meaning 'Chaos'. According to the Japanese myth, Konton controls nature. Shuku means 'people who emphasize order'. Katsu means 'people who advocate the importance of human emotion'. Based on good will or human wisdom, if human beings change nature too much, it will nature to be destroyed. This myth teaches us it may not be smart to change nature too much. If we destroy nature, it destroys us directly or indirectly.

I personally believe building a new facility and buildings is a good change for the school, students and our neighbors. However, as you see what is happening with the Japanese nuclear power plant, human beings would never be able to predict what happens after they make a change. I hope this new development of our neighborhood middle school will not cause any destruction of nature, giving an adverse affect to our neighbors.

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