Eternal Life in Centers

The quality sought in pattern selection — that certain centers illuminate existence and bring people in touch with their eternal life, like Basho's poetry

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Concepts (1)

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Essential Center
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Centers whose presence is already latent in the field — going to the heart of the living structure already there and encapsulating the real life going on

Quotes (1)

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When I eat, eat. When I walk, walk. I am trying to find those aspects of sight, sound, smell, the sandwich eaten on the back of the truck, the sun's rays on the bedroom floor, which will illuminate existence.
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Closing passage invoking Basho as the spiritual model for finding essential centers that illuminate eternal life

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Centers themselves have life.claim0.815
One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
The life of a center is a phenomenon in which the center, like a window, makes contact with the plenum of absolute unity.claim0.810
The definition of life in a center as contact with the absolute unity via tunneling.
The life of any given center depends on the whole field of centers in which this center exists.claim0.804
Key global property of the field of centers, making it non-local and unlike classical fields.
Centers help one another: the existence and life of one center can intensify the life of another.claim0.798
The core mechanism by which wholeness gains life.
Preciousness of Centersconcept0.798
The quality of a center that intensifies when it helps a larger center; the vital core of every center.
Centersconcept0.794
Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.789
Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
Centers govern life.claim0.788
Terse, fundamental assertion about the causal priority of centers.