Archive for January 2009
Process of materialisation
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 21, 2009
from rydesh@gmail.com to tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 21 January 2009 04:20 www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog/archives/2009/1/21/4064201.html A Summary of the Sankhya Discussions I’m compiling here excerpts of all the articles dealing with the Sankyha theory of material creation, articles posted during the last couple of weeks on the Mirror of Tomorrow. It is expected that a complete unified picture of the [...]
Buddhism as Process Philosophy
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 19, 2009
A common misunderstanding is that Buddhists believe that ‘things don’t really exist’ or that ‘nothing exists’
The problem with Badiou’s ontology lies in its abstraction
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 19, 2009
First, let me emphasize just how much I love Badiou. Part of my militance against Badiou in certain posts arises from the anxiety of influence. I read Badiou for the first time towards the end of my dissertation work. I had read his Manifesto for Philosophy a year or so earlier, but it hadn’t left [...]
“World-centric” orientation of Tantrism
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 18, 2009
Da is not the only person to note the “logic” of this kind of movement. This “movement” is also described by the Japanese Buddhist scholar Nagao in his various articles on Madhyamika and Yogachara. This emphasis upon immanence is taken over by the Tantric schools such as the Vajrayana and Kashmiri Shaivism, both of which were [...]
Misplaced enthusiasm
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 6, 2009
Re: A Talk with Sri Aurobindo—Noted down by Pavitra by RY Deshpande on Mon 05 Jan 2009 05:58 PM IST | Profile | Permanent Link In physics particles of interaction are called bosons. It is in that sense these come under the description of Vayu–they are not themselves Vayu, they could be seen as manifestation of Vayu. [...]
Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, & Sri Aurobindo
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 5, 2009
The Cosmology of the Integral Yoga This paper contextualizes the need for holding a cosmological worldview, using the works of Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry as a foundation, then explores detailed and specific connections to the cosmology presented by Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga as an illuminative example. [...] Although Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry [...]
Akash is the high substratum
Posted by: Tusar N. Mohapatra on: January 5, 2009
In the opening passage of the Book of Fate in Savitri, we have a complete description of the proto-atoms constituting our material world. The beginning of the objective universe starts from the Akash-element viewed as the etheric sea and goes down below to the dense form of the Prithvi-element. In the ether is the first [...]
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