Transpersonal Philosophy

  Mantra means spell. The most basic is Om, Satchitananda. It is the expression of the Cosmos, of Brahman. The spell of the Ananda of the Universe, the enchantment of Beauty. The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima said that whoever has seen Beauty with his eyes is condemned to death. It has been 43 years since I first read Mishima and his phrase continues to resonate like a mantric body. Dying for Beauty is not having to die again, paraphrasing Kabir. Whoever writes with the heart leaves a mantric body that resonates with Om... and remains as long as the Universe remains. Later it will lose itself in Silence, searching for Silence in order to find perfection. Today I want to offer you a fragment of the mantric body of Sankara (788 A.D.) his Nirvana Shatakam . I have sung it countless mornings of my life and it has given me deep joy in moments of pain. Nirvana Shatakam I am not the manas mind (ordinary mind), nor the buddhi mind (higher mind), nor the ego, nor th...

  Mantra significa hechizo. El más básico es Om, Satchitananda. Es la expresión del Cosmos, de Brahmán. El hechizo de la Ananda del Universo, el encantamiento de la Belleza. Decía el escritor japonés Yukio Mishima, que quien ha visto con sus ojos la Belleza, está condenado a muerte. Han pasado 43 años desde que leí por vez primera a Mishima y su frase sigue resonando como un cuerpo mántrico. Morir por la Belleza es no tener que volver a morir, parafraseando a Kabir. Quien escribe con el corazón deja un cuerpo mántrico que resuena con el Om… y permanece mientras el Universo permanezca. Despúes se perderá en el Silencio, buscará el Silencio para encontrar la perfección. Hoy quiero ofreceros un fragmento del cuerpo mántrico de Sankara (788 A.D.) su Nirvana Shatakam . Lo he cantado innumerables mañanas de mi vida y me ha dado profunda alegría en momentos de dolor. Nirvana Shatakam No soy la mente manas (mente común), ni la mente buddhi (mente supe...

  M usic is not just sound, in fact, sound is not really the foundation of music . Can a ballerina dance without sound? Of course, and it's still a musical experience. According to Leibniz , music is a n experience of the soul in relation to the order of time, performed by counting, albeit an unconscious counting process . Can we count unconsciously? Leibniz seems to suggest that arithmetic, or more precisely, the action of counting natural numbers, i s a fundamental mental process that occur s out of the focus of our attention. Therefore, unconscious counting , or better, our experience of the unfolding of order and harmony in the course of time, would be a full liminal action. It is an action in the limit, sub-limen action, and sublime action. It happens in the threshold of conscious formation, and therefore with a transforming potential for individual identity as no other art form has. There is a basic intuition of the experience of time that music and mat...