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GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND PHRASES
(From Not Two is Peace)
Acausal - Neither caused nor causing; therefore, existing beyond (or prior to) the realm of duality in which the law of "cause and effect" is operative.
all-and-All - The totality of conditional (or ordinarily appearing) existence - both as the "sum of its parts" and as an undivided whole. He defines lowercase "all" as indicating "the collected sum of all presumed-to-be-separate beings, things, and conditions", and uppercase "All" as indicating "the All (or the undivided totality) of conditional existence as a whole".
body-mind-complex - Each human being is a "complex" of fundamental faculties. Those fundamental faculties include body and mind, and also emotion and breath.
conditionally manifested reality / Reality Itself - The distinction between two meanings of the word "reality". (1) reality as we ordinarily perceive it and participate in it as "conditionally manifested reality". The "ordinary reality" is the complex effect of all kinds of causes. Thus, the "ordinary reality" can manifest only in accordance with whatever conditions are the case. Therefore, because the "ordinary reality" is dependent on conditions, or "conditionally manifested". (2) In contrast to "conditionally manifested reality", "Reality Itself" (with capital letters). Reality Itself is not in any sense dependent on conditions. In other words, Reality Itself is utterly "Non-conditional". Reality Itself is the "One and Only Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State" of every thing and every being in the universe.
Conscious Light - Reality (Itself) is "Conscious Light". The two essential characteristics of Reality are Awareness (or Consciousness) and Radiance (or Light). Furthermore, Conscious Light is the essential Nature (or the "One and Only Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State") of every thing and every being in the universe.
diaspora - The "diaspora" ("dispersion" or "scattering") of humankind all over the earth, over the course of many thousands of years, has resulted in the establishment of different cultures and philosophies. But no matter what cultural or even racial differences have appeared, humankind is still a single species.
"difference" - The presumption of fundamental "difference" as the essential fault that characterizes the unliberated human ego. The core of this presumption is the primal notion that "self" is separate from "everything and everyone else". That primal notion is described as the "root" of all human suffering and dilemma.
ego / ego-"I" - The ego is an activity, and not an entity. The activity of egoity is the "self-contraction", or the presumption of separate and separative existence. When the term "ego-'I'", places the "I" in quotation marks it indicates that it is in the "so to speak" sense (by means of the quotation marks) that, in Reality, there is no such thing as the "I", even though it appears to be the case in ordinary experience.
end-time - The end-phenomenon of human ego-culture and the loss of the connection to Reality Itself - and not any traditional religious myth associated with this term.
Enlightenment - The actual Realization of Reality Itself, or Truth Itself - Which Realization is Inherently Full of Light. The word "Light" in hyphens (as in "En-Light-ened") is to emphasize the root-meaning of the word.
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