Eastern Philosophy

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"Direct Understanding and the Attainment of Buddhahood" by Pierre Grimes, Ph.D.

Want to be inquisitive? This is an exploration into thought. Thoughts play themselves out as a drama. They each have images with their own attitude, manner and style. Your mind is trying to remind you of what you most need to understand. Just direct your understanding to what is going on. By doing so, one can verify that we live in a caring and intelligible universe.

References are made to The Collected Works of Chinul - The Korean Approach to Zen.

"Arjuna of the Bhagavad Gita and Plato's Republic" by Pierre Grimes, Ph. D.

A comparative study of warriors, the guardian Plato's Republic and the story of Prince Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.

This DVD begins with a first hand account of the early days of philosophy in San Francisco with Pierre Grimes and Alan Watts. The discourse then moves to the Central Issue of Alan Watts’s writings, the way of realization, a method of grasping the unity of the traditions, how to recognize the nature of the supreme, and drawing the traditions into a wholeness.

This discourse penetrates through the stratus of the Phaedo, resolving themes and questions on higher levels while generating further inquiry. This DVD explores Phaedo's Death Yoga, recognizing death as an out of body experience, and unpacks the definition of True Philosophy and Phaedo's "Yoga of Death."

This one is a comparative discourse on Plato's Parmenides, Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides, and the Diamond Sutra, and leads the viewer to conclusions on the Problem of fairness.

This is an in-depth exploration of a belief that blocks understanding, and the cost to the believer. The problem is explored in the context of the Phaedo myth, reflecting on the myth and the analogical relationships of Theseus, Socrates, and us.

Here is an in-depth study of the Canadian housewife's struggle to break free of the restrictions of existence. This DVD explores the boundaries that every family imposes upon their own children, and specifically through the meditation notes from the Canadian Housewife in the "Three Pillars of Zen." 

"The Tibetan Book of the Dead," a talk by Pierre Grimes

Read the Tibetan Book of the Dead and unpack the meaning of the text, without interpretation.

"Platonism and Alchemy" by Pierre Grimes, Ph. D.

The Lost treasure of Plato. This video studies Plato as an Intellectual Yoga, a spiritual tradition which is magnificent, structured, aggressive, descriptive and psychologically profound.

"The Art of Meditation" by Pierre Grimes

Explores creation in the Tiemeus as a model of meditation. Unpacks the Maker-God (the Demiurgos) and explores the model-copy paradigm.

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