The Phenomenological Method: In the Light of Our Mind Knowing Phenomenological Forms and Our Awareness Knowing Phenomenological Being

Abstract

This article reviews the unfolding of the transcendental phenomenological reduction process and reviews the unfolding of the ontological phenomenological reduction process as articulated by Heidegger and contemporary ontological phenomenology. It also reviews the phenomenological reduction in the light of contemporary Existential Phenomenology. Our discussion is elaborated in light of the two ways of knowing: the knowing of mind knowing phenomena and the knowing of awareness knowing Being integrating it with the Eastern philosophical tradition of Tibetan Dzogchen and vajrayāna –tantric– Buddhism. The focus has been on the power of the intertwining of these ontic-ontological capacities.

Keywords

• tantra
• field of being
• awareness
• phenomenology
• da sein