As a prelude to fully appreciating the value of such a radical reevaluation of all values, one is necessarily brought to see the need to comprehend the source of the authentication of all realities, feelings. Feelings authenticate reality. In what is perhaps a more straightforward approach, it may be understood that the "body," in its multiple manifestations or expressions, is that which is associated with mind to grant authority to all experience. Experience is only experienced as a bodily event or movement. Even thought takes on a feeling tonality when passing through the body. This felt association of body and mind takes place in breath. Breath may be seen as the link, or hyphen, of body-mind-world. Whatever is experienced must be experienced bodily, i.e., incarnately. The hyphenation I speak of here is the union of the otherwise distinctly perceived dimensions of body, mind, self, and world. Our hyphenation is used to point to the inseparability of these four living dimensions.

The living foundation of all of life is our experience of it. The knowledge that is derived from this foundation is always late, i.e., cognition is one step behind living. It is via knowledge or cognition that the living foundation is viewed piecemeal. Body, mind, self, and world are seen as preexisting entities that are not only distinct but separate in their function. While knowledge is a necessary component of human life, it relies upon the hyphenated reality wherein the four may be distinguished but never separated. As preexisting entities or functions, body, mind, self, and world (hereafter: BMSW) are taken by knowing entities that are already the case. They do not come into existence as reality but are taken to be already divided into observed phenomena that are distinct in themselves.

The union of BMSW is non-dualistic. Nothing lives that is not experienced in BMSW. However, this experience belongs to no one. This experience is anonymous. It is this anonymity which grants us the realization of the possibility of escape from the dissatisfaction of attachment and aversion. When that which is the stage upon which all knowing occurs is glimpsed, a worm hole to freedom is made available. In fact, to call it "experience" is to lead to the mistake of placing it in the realm of knowledge.

Say, isn't it time that we got serious about looking at the interminable search for happiness through acquisition that many of us are ensnared by? We hear so much about solutions to this or that environmental, religious, political, and economic problem.

From the point of view of an authentic life practice--one aiming at an ongoing immersion in the radical, dynamic reality of human living--when experience arises--be it pleasurable, painful, or neutral--the moment wherein transformation is possible, the moment wherein our freedom may be found, is the moment before we either attach to or have aversion for the feelings that arise in conjunction with the meaning-content of experience. However, instead of looking for this freedom and hence this release from compulsion in the dynamic of human living, the overwhelming majority of human beings seek to attach to the pleasurable feelings (and hold disdain for the painful) brought about by the gratification of habitual, culturally conditioned cravings. This has led to our present-day, multidimensional crisis of universal proportions. Somehow, we must reorient ourselves to discover a source of human flourishing that will allow mutual respect and cooperation among us. Our survival demands we act on this now.

What are the primary motivating forces, those presuppositions and values at the heart of this futile search, and how can we bring into light of day their innate inadequacy?

It took all of eight years to get back to this blog. I started this blog back in 2007. Since then, I have grown to understand the obstacles that stand in the way of appreciating, in a deeper sense of that word, what we may initially refer to as our radical reality, or "root" reality. This blog will unfold some of the implications of realizing this root reality in our everyday lives. Hopefully, this understanding will be grounded, not in a conceptual or theoretical manner, but in a thoroughgoing embodied and silent fullness wherein the fundamental reality of our lives as a union of body, mind, self, world, universe that breathes is seen, felt, and known as the basis of all experience. This human union, this radical sense of what it means to be human, will humanize all of life. One may even say that this realization is, at the same time, the sacralization, of all human experience.