for
- example - individual's evolutionary learning journey - new self revisiting old self and gaining new insight - universal compassion of Buddhism and the individual / collective gestalt
- adjacency - the universal compassion of the bodhisattva - Deep humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - the Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) as pointing to the self / other fundamental identity - Freud, Winnicott, Kline's idea of the self formed by relationship with the other, in particular the mOTHER (Deep Humanity), the Most significant OTHER
adjacency
- between
- the universal compassion of the bodhisattva
- Deep humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt
- the Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) as pointing to the self / other fundamental identity
- Freud, Winnicott, Kline's idea of the self formed by relationship with the other, in particular the mOTHER (Deep Humanity), the Most significant OTHER
- adjacency relationship
- When I heard John Churchill explain the second turning,
- the Mahayana approach,
- I was already familiar with it from my many decades of Buddhist teaching but with
- those teachings in the rear view mirror of my life and
- developing an open source, non-denominational spirituality (Deep Humanity)
- Hearing these old teachings again, mixed with the new ideas of the individual / collective gestalt
- This becomes an example of Indyweb idea of recording our individual evolutionary learning journey and
- the present self meeting the old self
- When this happens, new adjacencies can often surface
- In this case, due to my own situatedness in life, the universal compassion of the bodhisattva can be articulated from a Deep Humanity perspective:
- The Freudian, Klinian, Winnicott and Becker perspective of the individual as being constructed out of the early childhood social interactions with the mOTHER,
- a Deep Humanity re-interpretation of "mother" to "mOTHER" to mean "the Most significant OTHER" of the newly born neonate.
- A deep realization that OUR OWN SELF IDENTITY WAS CONSTRUCTED out of a SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP with mOTHER demonstrates our intertwingled individual/collective and self/other
- The Deep Humanity "Common Human Denominators" (CHD) are a way to deeply APPRECIATE those qualities human beings have in common with each other
- Later on, Churchill talks about how the sacred is lost in western modernity
- A first step in that direction is treating other humans as sacred, then after that, to treat ALL life as sacred
- Using tools like the CHD help us to find fundamental similarities while divisive differences might be polarizing and driving us apart
- A universal compassion is only possible if we vividly see how we are constructed of the other
- Another way to say this is that we see others not from an individual level, but from a species level