Homegrown
Enlightenment
Universal Truth
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Pursuing Enlightenment
Section 1.1: What Is Enlightenment?
Section 1.2: When East Met West
Section 1.3: Homegrown Enlightenment
Chapter 2: Doctrine of the Two Truths
Section 2.1: Two Distinct Lines of Query
Section 2.2: Personal Truth of ‘I Perceive’
Section 2.3: Universal Truth of ‘I Am’
Chapter 3: Things We Simply Believe
Section 3.1 Our Reliance on Things Believed
Section 3.2: That Which Leads Us Astray
Section 3.3: Practicing Due Diligence
Chapter 4: Our Custom Crafted Cages
Section 4.1: Physical Human Bondage
Section 4.2: Psychological Human Bondage
Section 4.3: A Dangerous Assumption
Chapter 5:Institutionalized Belief
Section 5.1: Our Inclination to Be Religious
Section 5.2: Our Inherent Need for Science
Chapter 6: What is Wrong with Religion?
Section 6.1: Dissecting a Faith-Based Example
Section 6.2: Intellectual Rebellion
Section 6.3: Only by Seeking Shall Ye Find
Chapter 7: What Is Wrong with Science?
Section 7.1: Notable Achievements
Section 7.2: Fundamental Obstacles
Section 7.4: Compromised Moral Compass
Section 7.5: Science vs Religion
Chapter 8: The Path of Self-Discovery
Section 8.1: The Science of Being Alive
Section 8.2: The Art of Living Correctly
Section 8.3: Pursuing Liberation
Section 9.1: Foundation of Counterpoint Pairs
Section 9.2: Evolving Spiritual Perspective
Chapter 10: Whereto from Here?
Section 10.1: Tempering Conscious Steel
Section 10.2: Key Take-Away Points
Section 10.3: Elaborating this Universal Truth
Section 10.4: Closing Thoughts
Tables and Figures
Table 2-1
A descriptive aid of contrast and comparison might help shed a little light on this lessor known of the two truths. This esoteric Universal Truth stands in stark contrast to the personal truth in many ways, and highlighting these differences helps to bring this Universal Truth into better focus. The key elements of these contrasting differences are listed in the table below.
From this table, it is clear that the Personal Truth is very dutifully focused on providing specific life solutions to the types of real-world problem that we face everyday. It is detail oriented in focus, and it is also complicated by the presence of the many things that we individually believe to be true without complete confidence making it an ever-changing, relative truth that we are literally just making up as we progress through the experience of our life.
Table 3-1:
Table 3-2:
Table 8-1:
Some common examples of these opposite pairs are listed in the table below:
Table 8-2:
Some of these specific behavior opposite pairs are listed in the table below:
In the context of these groups of people, selfishness is the root cause of an egotistic behavior in these social matters while the selfless inclinations lead to behaviors that are more altruistic. Also emerging as a generalization from these opposite extremes is the generalized concept of right and wrong.
Figure 8-1:
This never-ending cycle occurs in the three step process illustrated in the figure below.
This cyclical goal oriented process is initially driven by our will to survive. In that regard, a considerable portion of the personal truth is reserved for the things that support that survival as a matter of high priority.
