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The spiritual center in a person, the inward point of contact with the Void, the Self, or God, emphasized in Sufi and Zen teachings.
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Thinkers (2)
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- HallajstudiesSufi saint and poet, author of the verse 'I love my Lord with the Eye of the Heart', expressing the unity of lover and Beloved.
- Meister EckhardtstudiesMedieval mystic whose description of the soul's spark as free of names and void of forms is quoted to illustrate the ground of I.
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- the self (or 'I')associated_withAn eternal, impersonal yet intensely personal core within each person, also called the Void, the ground, or the great Self; the core of every living center.
Chapters (1)
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- The Blazing OneintroducesChapter 6 of Volume 4, The Luminous Ground, by Christopher Alexander. The chapter introduces the I-hypothesis, the plenum of I, and the Blazing One as the ultimate source of life in architecture.
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