Analysis:
Definition: breath
1,2
Function: energizes
3
Result: animation
4,5
1 ... For 'spirit' read: breath, from Latin,
spirare
1 : to breathe
1.1 ... Hebrew: ruach, Greek: pneuma,
1 Sanskrit: prana
2
2 ... Ancient and/or very primitive people observed, and hence assumed,
that breath, i.e. spirit, (alone) animated (or activated), i.e. gave life.
1 They also assumed that a breather, thereafter
called a spiritual being or person, gives life (i.e. animates). They then
assumed, without providing evidence, that breath (i.e. spirit; spiritus)
exists independent of a breather. Whether or not their assumptions were
true or false has not yet been finally and conclusively decided
2.1 ... The primary western source that describes the assumption
that breath animates life is found in Genesis2, Verse 7 of the Hebrew Bible
(i.e. the Tanakh), to wit: 'Then the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living being.'
2.1.1 ... Note: both the term Lord, i.e. commonly expressed as Adonai,
and the term God, clearly stated as Elohim, are plurals. What that means
is that the first verse of Genesis 1 should read: 'In the beginning the
Gods created the heavens and the earth.' Obviously, Christian monotheist
translators were doing a bit of cheating here
2.1.2 ... In the original Hebrew, the term here translated as 'being',
is 'nephesh', and whose meaning is uncertain. Some Bible translators choose
to translate 'nephesh' as 'soul'. It should be noted that the ancient Hebrew
speaking tribes had no notion of 'soul', temporary or immortal. The concept
of the soul was first invented, at least in the Western world, by the
Greeks, who called it 'psyche'
2.1.3 ... The origin of the 2nd Hebrew creation story (i.e. the
myth of Adam and Eve) described in Genesis 2& 3 has not been discovered
2.2 ... In the West, the Greeks invented the notion that breath
happens without a breather, indeed that breath (pneuma, later somehow
reinvented as psyche, i.e. soul, elsewhere termed: anima) happens as a
quantized, universal, ubiquitous and immortal fact (i.e. as a steady state).
However, the Greeks failed not only to provide any evidence for their claim,
nor, indeed, did they explain precisely (i.e. in discrete technical detail)
how ubiquitous pneuma (i.e. spirit), now grasped (i.e. understood) as soul
(i.e. psyche), managed to transmit, act and so create animated, i.e. living
systems. Later generations and cultures went along with the Greek 'immortal
soul' (deriving from breath) notion simply because denying it would have
opened a vast can of really ugly worms
3 ... For 'energize' read (i.e. substitute): excite, activate
1,2
3.1 ... Activation happens (in principle) when turbulence
1 is introduced into a whole (hence
@ rest, hence quantized, i.e. in
nirvana
) system
2
3.1.1... The ancient Indian sage
Patanjali
,
1 who is
credited with having compiled the most authoritative manual on
Yoga
, calls 'turbulence' 'fluctuation', Sanskrit:
vritti (variously
interpreted as movement, unrest, uncertainty and so on).
2 Yoga is described as the means of
restricting (and so eliminating) fluctuation (i.e. movement, activity and
so on) and which returns a system to its initial state (capacity) deemed,
wrongly (as
Shankara
was to point out) to represent the Brahman (pre-state)
3.1.1.1 ... It is doubtful if Patanjali (and Shankara too) actually
practiced Yoga because his description is replete with imprecision, errors
and omissions. Indeed, as anyone who has practiced Yoga @ the capacity
of full dedication realizes, a whole chapter is missing from Patanjali's
compilation. Moreover, there's far too much cultic (more specifically,
political) window dressing to suggest that he had actually achieved the
goal of Yoga, namely
moksha
(or mukti), i.e. jivanmukta status. A self-perfected
Jnani
would not have elaborated the description of Yoga and its methods in
such am elaborated, hence clumsy and fundamentally misleading manner
3.1.1.2 ... Individual religious cults tend to specify which types
of turbulence (for instance, deviations from a particular moral standard
or code of cult related conduct) must be eliminated (or restricted) to
achieve @rest, hence initial state status. Specification, hence division
and separation, is a political act
3.1.1.3 ... Elimination of turbulence
1
(hence of both random and non-random ordering; read: affecting),
i.e. coming to (capacity displacement) rest, is not a spiritual act since
it does not 'give' life but merely prepares for 'giving' life
2
3.1.1.3.1 .. Therefore of Yoga as such. Indeed, all quietist (i.e.
seeking to still a turbulent system) meditation practice is non spiritual
in that it only prepares for the spiritual act
1
3.1.1.3.1.1 ...
Any act (i.e. any (or every) one of
n 1 >< 1 contacts or touch moments)
is spiritual.
Refraining from, withdrawing from, hence non-acting is non-spiritual
3.1.1.3.2 ... Application (hence loss or sacrifice) of initial state capacity
(in short, the creation of turbulence) qualifies as a spiritual (i.e. life
generating) act
1
3.1.1.3.2.1 ... From which follows that it's the chela (or sisia), i.e.
the pupil (or devotee) who acts spiritually by activating the non-active guru
(i.e. as quantum of dead weight, i.e. the nirguna brahman). It's by activation,
i.e. by generating turbulence, that the initial state of absolute sameness
is ended, interaction begins and the (saguna) brahman (for instance as the
sat-chit-ananta = brahman of the Upanishads) achieves appearance
3.2 ... At the everyday level, activation means either adding combustible
input (i.e. oxygen) or adding alternate, hence new order
1,2 into a life quantum
3.2.1 ... Introducing combustion (i.e. turbulence, hence heat) or
new order (hence disorder), i.e. by changing an order of 1 into an order of
n, decreases the entropy of a system. Such decrease displays as an increase
in disorder (but an increase of connectivity (or communication, hence of
display)), elsewhere configured as an increase of rational (i.e. specifically
ordered) or irrational (i.e. random) complexity
3.2.2 ... Total elimination of order (i.e. of complexity, hence of
connectivity) in a system, therefore the achievement of maximum entropy,
returns a system to initial (as end) state capacity having an order of
1 (or
1'ness
). Sudden return to maximum capacity (absolute or relative) displays
as absolute capacity (locally interpreted as energy or power) release;
Sanskrit
moksha
3.3 ... There is, obviously, more (or 'other') to life than the
energy that fuels it or the complexity that de'fines (i.e. de-limits)
it.
1 What that
'more' is yet remains a mystery
3.3.1 ... Qualifying life (i.e. brahman) as satyam (being), jnanam (knowledge),
anantam (non-limitation, i.e. absolute freedom), as the inventors of the
Upanishads did, and Shankara tried to uphold, was exceptionally poor observation,
though locally (i.e. self-) pleasing
4 ... For 'animate' read: give life
1,2
or bring to life
4.1 ... For 'give life' read: 1. make real;
1 2. give shape to
2; 3. activate
3
4.1.1 ... For 'make real' read: produce the hardware (Sanskrit:
tat
) affect. This happens via 1
1
>< 1 (hence c >< c) collision, contact or touch
1
4.1.1.1 ... For '1' read: steady
1
state; enstatic system (i.e. an ens); quantum of dead weight; bit; singularity;
guru
4.1.1.1.1 ... For 'steady' read: non active, non -connective (i.e. random),
therefore non-relative
4.1.1.1 ... The Buddha never fully understood this problem, though he did
realize that nama-rupa resulted from the collision of discrete bits.
Shankara
got that one badly wrong. He simply claimed that realness (or being, i.e.
sat
), as brahman essence, existed of and by itself
4.1.2 ... For 'give shape (or form) to' read: reference or relativize.
This happens by means of serial, i.e. (1,1,1,1 ... to n), self-represented
as
linear or patterned, interaction (Sanskrit:
chit
)
1 and
which adds complexity, locally interpreted (i.e. responded to) as form (Sanskrit:
rupa), location, address and so on
4.1.2.1 ... Shankara did not have a clue about this; neither did Sri
Aurobindo
whose primary goal appears to have been the invention of a
pleasure inducing religious fiction
4.1.3 ... For 'activate' read:
connect a series
, thereby producing (complex) continuance; turbulation, fluctuation. Initiating
activity
1 sets either a complex system
into (analogue) motion (or turbulation) or a simple system into complex
motion (i.e. serial interaction). Actually, all complex (order) systems are
in motion (therefore turbulate, therefore hot; therefore destined to decay)
because complexity happens as dynamic (i.e. connection of multiple random
bits) process.
2
Orders of 1, hence fully quantized systems (i.e. logic units), alone present
@ rest (i.e. in
nirvana
)
4.1.3.1 ... Either absolutely, i.e. as primary or initial start up,
or as relative, hence secondary to nth capacity or complexity, start-up
4.1.3.2 ... The function of yoga is to eliminate, i.e. shut down dynamic
process, i.e. (hot and painful) connectivity (locally experienced as life)
and return a system to (ice cold, i.e. frozen) rest, i.e. to non-life (i.e.
as virtual death)
4.2 ... Since the breath (or spirit) gives life, breathers (i.e. the spiritual)
give life.
Giving life is the basic function of the
'spiritual' 1,2
4.2.1 ... Therefore,
any quantum
(i.e. as person, thing or function)
that gives
life, i.e. that animates, i.e. that makes real or activates a dynamic
process that produces a location or form),
should be considered 'spiritual'
4.2.1.1 ... Once it is clearly understood that acting 'spiritually'
means 'giving life', and that means, giving life in any way, shape or
form,
1,2 then one's
interaction with the world changes dramatically. In other words, a spiritual
person turns out to be an individual who gives (or furthers) life, i.e.
by applying, locking or binding (hence sacrificing) free capacity, rather
than one who worships god or some other spirits, sings psalms, chants mantras,
practices breath observation, reads Tarot cards, joins a religious cult
to prepare for the Apocalypse or strives for freedom from application (hence
life denial)
4.2.1.1.1 ... For instance,
by driving a bus or fixing a bike, or by becoming a billionaire, or by
faking an orgasm to bolster the partner's confidence
4.2.1.1.2 ... Religious cults, with some notable Indian exceptions,
designate, thereby limit, specific acts (or beliefs) as spiritual,
1 i.e. as life giving, rather than all applications
of free capacity. Specific designation, hence selection, functions as a
political act, the latter serving to provide power to the those who designate,
that is to say, who divide and thereby rule. Once it becomes clear that
all (i.e. any 1 of n) applications of capacity, such as eating an apple
or rubbing your nose, function as life giving (or furthering), therefore
as spiritual acts, religious cults lose their power
4.2.1.1.2.1 ... St. Paul, the inventor of Christianity, selected specific
functions or acts (or beliefs) as spiritual. He needed to do that in order
to create his religious cult. In the process he created one of the most
powerful human limitation and manipulation systems the world has seen.
That system eventually became (with St. Augustine's help) a protection racked
complete with Godfather and numerous 'families', i.e. religious orders,
who, like the Dominicans, who ran the Inquisition and robbed and murdered
hundreds of thousands of individuals, operated for centuries as crime syndicates
4.2.2 ... Spirituality emerges as the capacity of a quantum (i.e.
of any whole system) to function in a spiritual way, namely to generate
realness (by means of 1 >< 1, i.e. whole >< whole contact) and
by sequential (i.e. (1 >< (1,1,1,1 ... to n)) connection that traces
and thereby gives shape or form to realness
1
4.2.2.1 ... Generating (i.e. creating) a
1 real shape, i.e. a bit of shaped realness
1 is the basic god function.
2 An individual who shapes realness is god.
Such an individual is called spiritual
4.2.2.1.1 ... For 'a' read: any 1 of n
4.2.2.1.2 ... Knowable (as primary knowledge) because it touches absolutely;
and knowable (as secondary knowledge) because it provides a trace (i.e. as
string or sequence), hence relativity
4.2.2.2 ... For 'god function' read: ancient Indian (Sanskrit) version:
satyam (being), jnanam (knowledge), anantam
1
(unlimited capacity); upgraded version: real (primary knowledge) making,
realness moments sequencing (secondary (to n) knowledge, hence cons'sciousness
making), @ maximum (i.e. initial state) capacity
2
4.2.2.2.1 ... After Shankara, (the quality of) anantam (i.e. as unlimited
capacity) was dropped and replaced by ananda, meaning bliss. That was much
better for business
4.2.2.2.2 ... Therefore for 'god' read: a real form presenting (or for contact)
@ random. In short, all real forms making (random) contact happen or function
as 'god'
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