I do scorn and critique (always) "romantic religion" – or the religion of eros … as I call it – and I did see in others, as well as in myself – a pervasive "unavowed guilt" in our culture – based on an unavowed longing for "nothingness". This is a kind of obsession of mine in my early thinking (and consequently in my poems) after I came to a realization of the nature of my consciousness.
We care about this awakened heart because, like a flower in full bloom, it is the full realization of our nature.
The film features one of the most disturbing shots I've seen in any film this decade - we cut, in media res, to Ibrahami just screaming like a banshee, not out of any physical pain, but at what his eyes hint is a true realization of the nature of his dilemma with all of its weight, a week ago a suburbanite dad, now stuck in a torture room in a foreign country for reasons he doesn't know.
The latter stance was well expressed in the use of kôan, or paradoxical exchanges meant to facilitate realization of Buddha-nature.
In the Ontology, it is not the self-realization of the collective subject-object in history that is the defining moment of revolutionary politics, but rather the gradual realization of the universal nature of humans in their interaction with society and nature.
Each individual's fravashi, distinct from his incarnate soul, subtly guides him in life toward the realization of his higher nature.
These include the realization of the transitory nature of earthly life, which prompts a desire to anchor one's hope in otherworldliness, and the reaction against secularization that is often coupled with a belief that spirituality can best be preserved by simplifying one's mode of life.
Realization of the puzzling nature of this state led to Buddhahood.
Conversely, the Daoist goal can be defined as the realization of one's nature, and particularly the optimization of one's inborn capacity.
To Guo Xiang, the hierarchical structure of society need not be oppressive, for each and every person is "equal" and self-sufficient, which enables an inner transcendence that is the mark of authenticity and the full realization of one's nature and capacity.
