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Recieved: 2000/12/16 17:33
Subject: [K-list] Purusha (was Full Moon and Snow) HS
From: Wim Borsboom

Thanks Linda.

You wrote:
>>>>The Purusha or cosmic man (part of standard Hindu philosophy and
cosmology deriving from the Sankhya system) is believed to consist of 16
parts 5 elements (air,earth, etc.), 5 organs of action (feet, hands,
etc.), 5 sense organs (taste, touch, etc.) with the mind being the 16th
through which all the others are correlated. >>>

My comment:
I am very much in favour of this approach, learned a lot from Aurobindo
Ghose about this (Purusha and Prakriti). I especially like the fact that
the mind (16th part) is as you say the 'correlator' not the 'regulator'.
That ties in with what I wrote about the brain and the mind being a data
collecting and tracking mechanism, fed by input from the organs, senses
and elements (the other 15).
Again, good for you Linda to bring this up, this deals with reality...

Reality... the environment in which real things play in real time.

(There is a technique in artificial intelligence that mimics the mind.
The mind can be seen as the conglomerate of pathways most travelled,
nodes mostly visited, or links most often updated. Once the addressing
frequency has reached a certain threshold, they contribute to 'mental'
contents, in humans mostly mental chatter: internal monologue or
dialogue, which is... too bad.)

Purusha, Prakriti... Don Juan Matus (Carlos Castaneda's) talked about
the tonal and nagual. In "Tales of Power" page 121 there is a lot on
this. Don Juan even scratched a figure in some ashes (page 98)... very
good stuff... I did a lot of work with that in 1974... Will write more
about that at some point.

top square = purusha = nagual = ananda = bliss
  ^
   / \
  / \
,/ ^ \, ^ = reason = chit = knowledge
'\ / \ /'
X X
,/ \ / \,
'\ v /' v = will = tapas = will
  \ /
  \ /
  v
bottom square = prakriti = tonal = sat = existence

Hope the above comes out alright on your screen.
He drew 8 points interconnected with lines. It comes out looking like
two partially overlapping squares. The top square represents the nagual
(purusha), the bottom one represents the tonal (prakriti).
Two epicenters, the top one is 'reason', the bottom one 'will'.
Consider this diagram looking like the top and bottom squares of a cube.

Of course at self reintegration these two squares are too fully overlap
and disappear into each other, no astigmatism.

It is from this, at Aurobindo's urge, in 1975, that I started to include
Tapas into the Sat Chit Ananda triangle. Existence, Will, Knowledge,
Bliss.

Love,
Wim

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