Mind As Knower of Forms, And Awareness as The Knower of Being: A Phenomenological View

Rudolph Bauer

doi:10.32351/rca.v4.2.86

Authors

Rudolph Bauer Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-007X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v4.2.86

Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

Keywords:

Tantra, Being, Consciousness, existence, duality, non-duality, nothingness, potential

Abstract

This article phenomenologically describes our ontological situation and our two modes of knowing. There is the knowing of mind as the knower of forms and the knower of awareness as the knower of Being. This paper links and integrates the tantric Dzogchen view of the mind - awareness distinction within the continental phenomenological view of the mind- awareness distinction as expressed in the work of Heidegger and Merleau Ponty. This distinction of mind and awareness allows us to clarify the confusion about our knowing of forms and our knowing of Being. The paper emphasizes the intertwining of awareness and mind. When mind and awareness are in oneness, then the knower can know the Being-ness of being through a being. The person can know the duality of beings within the non duality of Being. And the person can know the non duality of Being within the duality of beings.

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Author Biography

Rudolph Bauer, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies

Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P. and Co-Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies. For a number of years He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland Medical School and also taught at Johns Hopkins University. He did post doctoral studies in phenomenology at The Institute of Time Perspective at Leuven, Belgium. He has studied the Tantra of Kashmir Shavism with Swami Muktananda and has studied Dzogchen with many Tibetan Lama's including Lama Tharchen, Lama Norhla, and many others. He is an Existential Psychoanalyst in Washington,DC and is currently opening a Center for Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. His website for published papers on tantra and phenomenology is rudolphbauer.academia.edu. The website of The Washington Center is meditatelive.com. Through video streaming he consults and leads seminars with people in many different countries.

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