Our original “Life World” is rooted within our social/physical arena, and its abstract denizens, including all of our constructs, symbolism. The point is though, it is only a developmental stage, a.k.a., Washburn, and there are further levels of functioning here. We can begin to touch upon the “Greater World.”

It seems stationary, with rationality only a mirror of it; but it is originally just one activation of the figure/ground. We can do more of those, move from the first attention into the second.

So, “me and my multifaceted self,” is more like it . . . you were the ones who were thinking shadows, and/or the ordinary world with strange things happening. Lets say I had to integrate all this. One needed a real direction for health and sanity. What is the Real is the big question here, in our western world, currently.

Ya, I’ll just stick to the people I know . . . and I’m not the symbol for your external, anonymous system. There’s more intrinsic elements to me, these days . . . I’ve moved along . . .

“I’ve been moving along with that enhanced sense of Reality and Meaningfulness, with Intent.”

“That soft energetic interconnection, “tangible,” with feeling.”

Its been fascinating to see how these disciplines of meditators talk about things. As far as levels go now, for instance, I’ve got the start-up point right from the body. Relaxation, feeling, positive energy . . . though there are further hints and experiences of a “body pattern,” as one moves along, as in the “shape of light” in other systems. “The Life World . . .”

The Buddhists though were good at defining how the problems occur in separate mode. Now this sounds like typical psychology:

“Mind is related to the senses, which are related to the body, while the body is related to the world. Each one leads to the other. Each has its own pattern, and together they all act and interact very quickly, but each process also follows specific channels. As the senses communicate information to the mind, the mind begins to make decisions, which involve judgments, concepts, and dualities, that then create separateness and conflict. Therefore, as soon as this process begins, conflict is automatically initiated- conflict within the mind itself, conflict between body and mind, conflict between the senses and the mind … first internally, then externally.”

Tarthang Tulku. Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Self-Healing & Meditation (Nyingma Psychology Series) (Kindle Locations 555-558). Kindle Edition.

“If we observe this process closely, we see that when our senses initially perceive an object, the first tendency is to grasp the object. This leads to further craving and attachment, which cause us to become fixed in certain patterns of behavior. Each time the mind moves toward an object, we lose energy-although this is sometimes difficult to perceive, because the degree of loss depends on the intensity of the situation. When the depletion of energy becomes too great, we lose our balance, and negative emotions, which can affect both our feelings and perceptions, then easily arise.”

Tarthang Tulku. Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Self-Healing & Meditation (Nyingma Psychology Series) (Kindle Locations 568-572). Kindle Edition.

This sounds fairly mainstream . . . world, senses, interpretations by mind . . . then chaotic situations and feelings. I see their point here now. But with “intent,” there is that strong connection, interconnection, that bypasses all of this!