transcendence, what is it?

What is meant by transcendence?... hm... transcendence is not to outside of oneself. It is in fact to almost become more of oneself...

In many philosophies there is a concept of a personal consciousness and an all encompassing consciousness... a person is a microcosm of the greater cosmic or universal macrocosm. In Christianity they talk of man being created in god's image. In ayurveda they say the same thing... In the interest of communication I am going to choose a couple of terms in order to better explain...

Terms:
buddhi: individual consciousness
mahat: cosmic consciousness
Transcendence: to go beyond
ego: that which allows all things to know who they are

when a person transcends in meditation he goes from a comprehension of buddhi, personal experience, into an experience of mahat, universal experience. It is a going beyond the ego and dip into the cosmic creativity.

many people discuss the ego as something to be squashed... not here. the ego is that knowledge that I am nomi. my liver cell knows it is a liver cell. the sunflower seed knows to become a sunflower.

The ego concept familiar to us in the west is a different, perverted concept. It is desire, which strengthens the ego into something that is hyperactive. ego is very strong and when it becomes out of balance with desire... desire to be greater than itself... it is cancer.

So transcendence is an expansion both inwardly as well as outwardly gaining clarity of perception of self bringing us in harmony with our innate self, the microcosm of this great macrocosm.

in this way we can access our inner teacher... the true teacher is within us.

I hope you are well and can forgive all this blah blah blah and take it for what it is. :)