 163. Terminology |
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: The highest form of Savikalpa Samadhi, in which bodily, or at least psycho-sensual, awareness remains intact and operating, but psycho-physical, or cosmic, existence is otherwise (or simultaneously) perceived in Consciousness as an Infinite Unity.
COSMOGONY: The study of the origin of the world.
COSMOLOGY: The study of the nature and order of the world.
CULT: Half true or false teachings by a person, teacher with little or no spiritual perception and pretends to be a "great teacher," master, for selfish reasons, i.e., money, sex. If the "teacher" is more important than the "student," then it is a cult. Some of the world's most truthful and honest spiritual groups were called "cults" by competitive religious organizations in order to destroy them.
CONSCIOUSNESS: Another name for spirit or soul.
DA CHI GONG: A primary form of "conscious exercise" in the Way of the Heart. The traditional Chinese practice of Chi Gong (also sometimes spelled "qigong" or "chi kung"). Da Chi Gong is a devotional practice, performed in feeling-Contemplation.
DAMA: The quieting of the ten organs of sense and action. Must be attained before true meditation can begin.
DARSHAN: In Sanskrit, the word "Darshan" means "seeing," "sight of," "vision of." In the Indian traditions, such seeing also involves feeling. Thus, "to have Darshan" of a saint, a holy image, etc., is a participatory, feeling act, not merely a visual witnessing of an object.
DASEIN: Heidegger's word for what he called "Being There," a fully realized conscious approach to life, more than merely "stayin' alive."
DECONSTRUCTION: The practice of unraveling meaning from written language to show how it is put together out of assumptions that can't be true.
DECONSTRUCTIONISM: The process of breaking down a thing (in Jacques Derrida's case, language) to show that what is being stated is in fact inherently false.
DEDUCTION: The process of determining what is necessarily true based on what is already known to be true.
DEISM: The belief in an unknowable God who set the world in motion at the beginning of time but has done little to interfere with nature since that time.
DEHA: "One who has a body." Humans have three basic bodies: the dense, the subtle, and the causal. The body is a "temple" whereby the soul or overself, consciousness spirit being can gain experience from the physical life.
DETERMINISM: The idea that what happens has to happen as a result of natural laws, a divine plan, or human nature. A classic philosophical problem concerns whether determinism is compatible with the notion of individual freedom.
