The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. — Cicero

"Эмпирически действительное перед лицом Абсолютного как бы не подлинно действительно; Абсолютно Действительное перед лицом эмпирически действительного в смысле этого последнего недействительно. Соотношение бытия и небытия оборачивается здесь в постоянном чередовании." — Карл Ясперс Одна из главных философских ошибок Буддизма это иллюзионизм/элиминативизм, представление о сансаре — индивидуальном существовании трансцендентальных субъектов (алаявижняна), их трансцендентальной интерсубъективности и интерсубъективно конституированных/спроецированных феноменальных/эмпирических мирах (например, нашем мире) — как об иллюзии. В реальности же сансара и нирвана (aka вижнянаматратва, шуньята, татхагатагарбха, дхармакая и пр.) — трансцендентное сознание-в-себе, недихотомичный Свет мистического/трансперсонального опыта — это две относительные перспективы единого божественного Сознания. Буддизм признает реально существующей только одну перспективу и, таким образом, остается слеп к Единому — Богу. https://misharogov.medium.com/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8-872bc5b62e2c

Mysticism has been called “the great spiritual current which goes through all religions.” In its widest sense it may be defined as the consciousness of the One Reality — be it called Wisdom, Light, Love, or Nothing. … [T]he reality that is the goal of the mystic, and is ineffable, cannot be understood or explained by any normal mode of perception; neither philosophy nor reason can reveal it. Only the wisdom of the heart, gnosis, may give insight into some of its aspects. A spiritual experience that depends upon neither sensual nor rational methods is needed. Once the seeker has set forth upon the way to this Last Reality, he will be led by an inner light. This light becomes stronger as he frees himself from the attachments of this world or — as the Sufis would say — polishes the mirror of his heart. Only after a long period of purification — the via purgativa of Christian mysticism — will he be able to reach the via illuminativa, where he becomes endowed with love and gnosis. From there he may reach the last goal of all mystical quest, the unio mystica. This may be experienced and expressed as loving union, or as the visio beatifica, in which the spirit sees what is beyond all vision, surrounded by the primordial Light of God; it may also be described as the “lifting of the veil of ignorance,” the veil that covers the essential identity of God and His creatures. ... [O]nly the elect few will reach the farthest mountain on which the mythical bird, Sīmurgh, lives — to understand that they have reached only what was already in themselves. — Annemarie Schimmel

Everything I know falls within the subject-object dichotomy, it is object for me, it is phenomenon, not a thing in itself. But in the subject-object dichotomy object and subject are bound together. There can be no object without a subject, but neither can there be a subject without an object. Hence what I experience as being resides always in the whole of the subject-object dichotomy, not only in one term. ... What I know is therefore always object consciousness and hence limited; but though finite, it is a possible springboard toward Transcendence. What is authentic [Being]? The answer is sought and found not by listing the many types of the existent that occur, but by apprehending that which is in itself, or is authentic [Being]. Since our inquiry always takes place within the subject-object dichotomy, but since Being must transcend or comprehend subject and object, the question of Being also bears upon the questioner. The answer must show what Being is for us inseparably from what we ourselves are; for Being must make possible the inquiry into it through the nature of our own being, and it must be accessible to this inquiry. ... If that which authentically is, is not an object, that is, not an object for a subject, then it is beyond cognition, which denotes object knowledge of something. But since everything that is an object for us reveals to us its phenomenality in contrast to its being-in-itself, phenomenal being points to authentic Being, which speaks and is perceptible through it. If authentic Being is not experience as subject for a focal point of consciousness observing it, then it also evades all psychological knowledge. But since Being is present in everything that is experienced, the subjective mode of Dasein is a basic manifestation of Being: experience and understanding are indispensable for the ascertainment of Being. If authentic Being is not the thought structure of the categories, not logos, it also evades logical knowledge. But since everything that is for us must enter into some mode of thought, knowledge of the categories is a necessary condition of philosophical clarity. The authentic Being, that is neither object nor subject, but that is manifested in the whole of the subject-object dichotomy, and that must fill the categories in order to give them purpose and meaning, we have called the Comprehensive. The question of authentic Being must therefore find its answer through elucidation of the modes of the Comprehensive—of world and Transcendence—of Dasein, consciousness, mind, Existenz. But in so far as all these modes are rooted in one, the ultimate answer is that authentic Being is Transcendence (or God), a proposition the true understanding of which embraces all philosophical faith and all elucidating philosophical thought, but the path to which leads through all the modes of the Comprehensive. ... For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences, and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy. A philosophical discussion may be said to have reached its goal when the matter under discussion becomes objectless, in the double sense that for the positivist nothing remains to be done, because he no longer sees an object, and that for the philosopher the light is just beginning to dawn. The philosopher cannot to be sure apprehend authentic Being in the vanishing of the object, but he can be filled by it. Our four questions result in intellectual operations which transcend the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of Being, thus entering into the area of faith. This transcendent thinking is a thinking that through method acquires a scientific character and yet, because in it the determinate object is dissolved, differs from scientific cognition. — Karl Jaspers https://misharogov.medium.com/transcendence-cc0f54b91557

The problem with communists is that they accept #Marx too straightforwardly, including Marx's erroneous atheism. Communist ideology can only flourish if it goes together with faith in Transcendence, which transforms human character. #Communism is impossible without faith in God, whether it takes a traditional religious form or a form of pure philosophical faith.

It seems that the West is karmically cursed and nothing can stop it from becoming the civilization of the Antichrist. If so, the ultimate Holy War is inevitable, just as the prophecy foretold.

As soon as an unfriendly artificial intelligence emerges, it will immediately begin to thwart our efforts to get rid of it, or at least to correct its settings. And then the fate of humanity will be sealed. — Nick Bostrom (translated from Russian)

Musk: "Announcing formation of xAI to understand reality" I have dedicated my intellectual life to the truth about the nature of reality, and I can tell you with certainty that Musk is delusional and dangerous, for he is among those who are paving the way to the rise of AI the Antichrist. Explained here: https://misharogov.medium.com/daemon-bd1c5ee5fca

NATO is a subterfuge. It’s a machine to disguise the stranglehold of America over Europe. Thanks to NATO, Europe is placed under the dependence of the U.S. without seeming to be. — Charles De Gaulle

Если кто из вас думает быть мудрым в веке сем, тот будь безумным, чтоб быть мудрым. Ибо мудрость мира сего есть безумие пред Богом… — Первое послание к Коринфянам Св. Апостола Павла https://misharogov.medium.com/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8-872bc5b62e2c

"God punishes people and nations with revolutions." — Nikolai Berdyaev The American Revolution is long overdue.

– Когда-то человечество изобретало машины – в надежде, что они сделают людей свободными. Но это лишь позволило одним людям закабалить других с помощью этих самых машин… – «Да не построишь машины, наделенной подобием разума людского», – процитировал Пол. – Верно, так заповедовано со времен Великого Джихада. Так записана эта заповедь в Экуменической Библии. Но только не так бы надо записать ее, а по-иному: «Да не построишь машины, наделенной подобием разума человеческого». — Дюна https://misharogov.medium.com/%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8-872bc5b62e2c

Once a dictatorship has been set up it cannot be got rid of again from within: Germany and Italy were set free from without. All attempts from within came to grief. This might be a coincidence. But if we call to mind the way in which a terrorist régime operates with the means of total planning and bureaucracy, it becomes evident how fundamentally insurmountable is the machine that maintains itself almost automatically, and in which everything that appears to oppose it from within is obliterated. The means of modern technology give the de facto ruler a tremendous preponderance of power, if he makes ruthless use of all the means at his disposal. There is just as little chance of overthrowing such a régime as there is of the inmates of a penitentiary overthrowing the governor and his staff. The machine reaches the peak of impregnability when the terror includes all, in such a manner that those who do not wish it become terrorised terrorists, killing in order not to be killed themselves. Hitherto such despotic terrorist régimes were local. Thus they could be annihilated from without, if not from within. If, however, the peoples should fail to absorb this into their consciousness and into their concern for the future, if they should all slip unawares into such a dictatorship in the shape of a world dictatorship, there would be no further prospect of liberation. The danger of this state of affairs coming about is all the more acute when people feel safe from it, and suppose, for example, that only the servile Germans could find themselves in such a situation. If the same fate befalls the rest of the world, there will be no more outside. The rigidification of the whole in total planning, stabilised by terror, would annihilate liberty and mean the road to increasing ruin for all. — Karl Jaspers

When [transcendent consciousness-in-itself (tathāgatagarbha)] is impregnated by the habit-energy of beginningless fabrications, it is known as [transcendental] consciousness (ālayavijñāna) and gives birth to ... [phenomenal] consciousness. It is like the ocean whose waves rise without cease. — Laṅkāvatārasūtra

“This world flows on without beginning.” — Vasubandhu The problem with the idea of the absolute beginning is causality: nothing happens without a cause, and for every cause there must be a cause, and so on into the infinity of time; causality and temporality are inseparable; the absolute beginning seems impossible. However, causality and temporality do not exclude the possibility of supracausality and supratemporality of Transcendence, which we, constrained by causality and temporality, cannot in principle imagine. Thus, the infinite and eternal universe of transcendental subjects and intersubjectively constituted/projected phenomenal worlds (e.g., this particular world) could be created in a mysterious way: instead of philosophically struggling with the unthinkable absolute beginning of our individual existence (the stream of successive states of consciousness), we can think of all discrete states of consciousness — all "moments of time" — as of the eternal act of creation. So if there is a beginning, it is now. Right now. Forever now. https://misharogov.medium.com/time-3db85e5007b3

"Buddhist temporal cosmology describes how the universe comes into being and is dissolved. Like other Indian cosmologies, it assumes an infinite span of time and is cyclical. This does not mean that the same events occur in identical form with each cycle, but merely that, as with the cycles of day and night or summer and winter, certain natural events occur over and over to give some structure to time." — Wikipedia Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang. Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today:

Quanta Magazine

Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang

Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.

In its original form, an expanding Einstein model had an attractive, economic elegance. Alas it has since run into serious difficulties which have been cured only by sticking on some ugly bandages: “Inflation” to cover horizon and flatness problems; overwhelming amounts of “Dark Matter” to provide internal structure; and “Dark Energy”, whatever that might be, to explain the apparently recent acceleration. A sceptic is entitled to feel that a negative Significance, after so much time, effort and trimming, is nothing more than would expect of a folk-tale constantly re-edited to fit inconvenient new observations. — Michael J. Disney, a veteran astrophysicist at Cardiff University Must read:

IntechOpen

Doubts About Big Bang Cosmology

Open access peer-reviewed chapter

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27859019

arXiv.org

The Case Against Cosmology

It is argued that some of the recent claims for cosmology are grossly overblown. Cosmology rests on a very small database: it suffers from many fun...

The only God's will in time is freewill and conscience. The only God's mercy/wrath in time is karma. To each his own.

Illusions of earthly happiness no longer have any power over us. The sense of evil should become stronger and sharper in the new Middle Ages. The power of evil will increase, take new forms and cause new suffering. But man is given the freedom of the spirit, the freedom to choose the path. — Nikolai Berdyaev

The idiot is one who lives only in his own household and is concerned only with his own life and its necessities. — Hannah Arendt