Na kiñci loke upâdiyati. Total disinterestedness cannot be the disinterestedness of any finite self. Letting go of all, detachment. Short expressions, easy to apprehend superficially. But in their deep meaning they hold the keys to the heart of the world. To let go of the past, of all persons, to let be, let pass. This means relinquishing all desire and identity. This means freedom. It is utterly foolish to make relinquishment something external and physical. It is a transcendental act in the secret depths of the heart. We come to be, come to be what we are, through what we are attached to and desire. And every person is radically different people throughout the stream of life - where lies this identification of different masks ?
The royal road to TPC is i) through the perception of the universal a priori condition of temporality and transience. This reveals alleged objectified being as but a (modalized) moment in the flux of consciousness - and ii) through the perception that the self is determined through the delusion of the sense of mine, through appropriation and identification. A process and tendency, not a substance - and iii) that thought is often like a screen that consciousness uses to hide from its own nature - the world is born when consciousness wraps itself in the veil of its own thought.
Seeing through thoughts and thought. Analyzing posited 'units' of thought and showing their inner contradictions, essential dependencies and implicit containment of other thoughts. Like characters in a story that only really have meaning relative to the story as a whole. The excitations of a self-interacting quantum field.
How to transcend the world. There is another aspect of TPC based on an intellectual analysis of the ordinary world, ordinary human life and psychology, which nevertheless has a transcendental philosophical goal of great import. This is ability to clearly see and virtually live various possibilities (for self and others, empathetically taking the perspective of others) and to extrapolate and accelerate a given life-possibility in time. In this way all delusional desires and attachments dissolve once the heap of inevitable sufferings, limitations and anguish entailed by what was taken to be their desired fulfillment are clearly understood. The feeling of possession of something desired is in reality you being possessed by it, its allure, its delusion and its desintegration and downfall.
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