Applying Metaphysics in Life

 I believe that there are two worlds of human experience such are the world of being, containing all perfect archetypal ideas, and the imperfect world of becoming in which I come to believe through my senses and interpret through our consciousness. I have body which is matter, form and soul which is conceivable and understandable through meditation. And after death soul never dies but body which is perishable. So I develop my spiritual life and transfigure more so that my soul rest in peace with Lord. Therefore I do pray, do the religious rituals and good works in my daily activities.

With the help of metaphysics I believe that as human beings my real and absolute existence is as ideas in universal Mind, hence, I am spiritual being who is experiencing life as physical, mental and emotional organisms in time and space. Especially in my daily life.

I also believe that life is consciousness, which means I perceive as to who I was, and will be, is the result or product of our interpretive and imaginative capacity as consciousness: I am to myself just what I think I am.

I can give direction to my life's experiences and destiny by the way I think, interpret, feel, believe, choose and act. I believe this is true because all phenomena including consciousness are subject to laws of action and reaction or causation and consequences.

Each human being continually experiences the interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind and that the function of the subconscious includes the creative, dynamic reaction to the suggestions accepted by the conscious mind. Herein lies the power of human will, thinking, feeling, choice, perception and decision. It is the key to goal-focused living.

I can become conscious of the purpose, meaning, intention and mission of my lives through activating my intuition or faculty of direct knowing, detection of meaningful coincidences, and awareness of the significance of dreams. All three are natural ways of realizing the conveying presence of universal mind. I believe that human decisions, actions and behavior are meant to be guided by the ethical inspiration of universal Mind, the essence of which is love.

Guiding principles for fulfilling intimate relationships are Love, respect, wisdom, understanding, effort, openness, compassion, forgiveness, trust, patience, appreciation, spiritual awareness, maturity, support, intelligence, persistence, communication, flexibility, sense of humour, and a desire to please.

I can become increasingly aware of the dynamic activity and presence of universal Mind in my individual life through contemplative spiritual meditation and philosophical reflection.

I have faith that it is possible for human beings to enter into an altered, mystical state of awareness in which the individual feels one with the universe, all of life, and the universal mind. This state is known as cosmic consciousness, Christ consciousness, Mystic consciousness, Buddha consciousness, Krishna consciousness and similar terms. I believe this state of awareness to be the highest aim of the teachings of Jesus and other way showers. As Christian I never see Jesus. But I have a strong faith that He was and crucified for sinners and by his blood sinners are forgiven.

I believe that the evolution of the collective civilized human experience, in history, on earth in this dimension is greatly enhanced and facilitated by spiritual, philosophical way showers who developed and shared an unusually high degree of awareness of universal mind. These wises became founders of world religions, originators of sacred scriptures and resource persons as well as role models of the Wisdom of the ages. Many viewpoints, one Truth. Among the ancient great souls of enlightened spirituality I recognize Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Moses, Jesus Christ, LaoTsu, and Solomon, the prophet Mohamed, Zoroaster, King David, Chuang Tzu, Isaiah, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Marcus Aurelius. The Christ and the Buddha and similar archetypes are symbols of the incarnate divinity in each one of us, known as soul.

Communication between human beings in this dimension and other dimension is possible, that is limited by our skills, beliefs and receptivity. I believe that heaven and hell are states of consciousness, caused by our beliefs. Usually I cannot communicate with flower, plants etc. but I can by the help of metaphysics.  Such as I can know some characteristic of flower nature.

‘The goodness is not divided into three as something univocal which is predicated equally of them all, but as something analogogical which is predicated of them according to priority and posteriority. For it is predicated by priority of the autonomous good, then of pleasure of the good possessed and lastly of the useful good. Though God has His own perfection and complete goodness, in accord with His simple existing being, creatures do not attain the perfection of their goodness through their being alone, but through many things. Hence although any one of them is good in so far as it exists, it cannot be called good without qualification,  it lack any other things required for its goodness. Thus a man who is destitute of virtue and host to vice is indeed called good, relatively speaking; that is, to the extent that he is a being and a man.’[2]  Supreme good is only one that is God. He is a good master. He revealed his goodness through his only son. I have a potency to be a good as he is. Because I am a creation of Him. He also revealed himself by the every creation of nature. I can see the goodness of creatures of universe. Naturally as a man I am a good man. More than that I have to go beyond it. Therefore I need the application metaphysics. I can cross the beyond the goodness of mater. That is the union with supreme good. So every man has that potency to be union with God. And when man calls God with soul and heart. He must come to the feet of man. Therefore man is supper than angel. Because god comes to man’s call and angels are send. This is possible only by prayer, meditation, fasting and reading the holy

There are some practical of metaphysics I can apply in my life practically. That goes with meditation and becomes power of life

By the meditation mind with heart overcomes the Illusion of separation and sees the connection in all things.  A mind with heart has access to infinite energy, intelligence, and source. A mind with Heart receives inner guidance and experiences inner peace. A mind with Heart creates a world of abundance, happiness, and well being. Our hearts produce an electromagnetic field which extends beyond our body that is identical to that produced by the earth. This is scientific proof that human are far more intimately connected to the planet than we currently think. So meditation cures and heal many thing from my life.

‘The beautiful has been defined as that which when seen gives pleasure. Beauty includes three conditions; integrity, perfection, since those things which are impaired is by that very fact ugly; due proportion, or harmony; and lastly, brightness or clarity.’[3] So the beauty is attributes of being namely; unity, truth and goodness. I can not only satisfy with beauty. Beauty is integrated. It is at the same time subjective and objective. What is beauty to me is not beauty to other and the objective beauty is universal. To beauty in metaphysics is that to know beauty beyond mater. Such as body is beauty. But man’s behavior is not good. Not integrated with body’s beauty. On the other hand body is ugly but behavior is heavenly. This is the beauty of the person. His/her soul is more beauty which is immortal and God takes that soul with him. So I believe that being a man of beauty I can be united with the Lord. This is the metaphysics by which I can meditate this way. It really takes me up.

Finally metaphysics is according to Aristotle, the starting point of wisdom, or philosophy, was metaphysics. Modernity has more or less rejected metaphysics in its quest for self-destruction. But metaphysics will never go away, because metaphysics is reality itself – the study of the totality of what is. Metaphysics is the starting point in terms of actual foundations of knowledge and presupposition, yet it comes at the end of the process of pedagogy, as it is the highest science.


[1] Herman Reith, csc,” The metaphysics of St thomas Aquinas”, United States of America, 1962.

[2] Herman Reith, csc.`` The metaphysics of St thomas Aquinas”,  United States of America, 1962, pp 134.

 

[3]  Herman Reith, csc,” The metaphysics of St thomas Aquinas”,  United States of America, 1962, pp 138.

 

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