Conscious satisfaction with our current state of understanding, character, mode of Being, and progression towards values limits us in our ability to manifest our potentiality. Regardless, the instinctive movement towards greater perceptual intuition, and enhancement of cognitive navigation of phenomena, naturally increases as our perceptible data is accumulated throughout every moment. Whether we consciously encourage the progression towards greater heights of understanding, cognitively remain stagnant in pursuits of learning or further articulation of ideas, or hinder progress through pursuing falsehood, our natural inclination is to seek to rectify dissonance and contradiction through our rational faculty. This is necessarily done in a way that progresses the state of consciousness, or the “Spirit” as Hegel regards our “Being”, in its totality, towards higher “transcendental” states of understanding. In the realm of wisdom, morality can always be improved, in the realm of knowledge, articulations can always be refined and improved upon, transcended and surpassed. We can always make progress towards greater articulation and actualization of our value system’s priorities. This becomes greatly accentuated through conscious direction, and diligent effort.

Our ability to conceptualize appearances of truth into statements about reality is limited by time, language, and experience, but at the same time progressable through the same metrics, if utilized in accordance with consciously constructed abstractions of the underlying value system. Time goes on, and new concepts can be introduced, and experience grows. Our perceptions are altered as their datum increases through the very instantiation of our perceptible ability which courses through life. As time goes on, and our conceptual vocabulary is improved upon, as concentration upon awareness of reality develops new meanings to new concepts, consciousness itself grows in its understanding, that is, if it is concentrated on the improvement of said knowledge in a way that is fact checking itself in corresponding to reality. While requiring intellectual vigor and philosophical inclination towards progress towards higher abstractions, such processes can be implemented by anyone at any level for practical results.

The integration between the experienced and the abstract, and the constant flow of experience and abstraction, flows to deeper understanding if one never reaches a point of satisfaction or complacency. As you improve skill with experience, you also improve understanding with time, which is itself directly intuitable in our experience. Directed consciousness in an intentional direction, over time, produces experience in said direction, and leads to improvement if worked through a Hegelian process of dialectic movement. This dialectical movement towards advancement of current knowledge works through the experiencing of new knowledge contradicting old knowledge, the recognition of two contradictory truths, their transcendence into a new truth which superseded yet includes both discovered truths, and the emergence of an all-encapsulating conception. This now becomes the initial truth, change occurs and through renewed attention new knowledge develops contradicting the new founded knowledge, and their transcendence is required again to move on.

For example, this whole process is only discoverable because something is. Something is, which is Being. This Being which we recognize is a type of being which we conceptualize as human, a human being (me). We intuit that something is permanent, is lasting and unchanging, perhaps our view of our “self”, or of physical objects. The being comes to notice through phenomenological analysis that its contents are impermanent. Through science we find all conditioned things are found impermanent as well. The inner world, the outer world.  Everything must be impermanent, changing. What is unchanging always is permanent. What doesn’t change, is impermanent. Everything is impermanent. Two concepts, one consciousness. Two contradictions, one understanding, both consciously held, produces cognitive dissonance and internal confusion through their contradiction. The resolution, the permanence of impermanence, is recognized, as the type of being which reality has. The unity of the contradictory truths are found in conceptual understanding that the absolute concept (Hegelian Notion) contains the truth of a constant impermanence from the perspective of the Being which is human. From this conceptual standpoint one has traversed multiple underlying truths which are, in their divided essences, incompatible, but in their unity, a truthful depiction of reality as it currently has been found by the observer.

As long as the understanding focuses on developing the conceptualization, of not ending the conversation, experience, time, abstraction only grows from this point. One may come to see that the unity is only such due to the mind which is itself not divisible from the unity yet a part of the unity, but itself as much the unity as any other point, at the same time it is creating the unity which is appearing to itself within consciousness. One may come to conceptualize the consciousness that is abstracting as separate from the abstraction. That there is the object (the abstraction of consciousness (unity of permanence of impermanence)) as well as the subject (consciousness itself). These can become, themselves, two objects recognized within consciousness, one containing the unity of previously discovered truth, one the consciousness which recognizes, both appearing in the content of consciousness. Two conceptualizations of the state of affairs as they appear within one consciousness. Through development of understanding we see that it is consciousness itself creating both concepts within itself, which itself can be infinitely conceptualized, until the realization dawns that anything appearing in consciousness, is merely appearing in consciousness, and that experience is what is currently happening within this moment, subjectively, yet perceived as an objective fact. This itself becomes a truth of the moment, its realization quickly superseded by the next interjected moment of awareness containing fresh content (if your mindful you can notice), only possible, through the impermanent nature of all phenomena. In this way our understanding formulates a conceptualization of reality, it is contradicted by a subsequent truth, both truths must be integrated, and through their transcendence, that is, a higher resolution image which includes both, we are successfully able to integrate both ideas into a world view which houses them and is able to contain them both without contradiction. This process, albeit naturally occurring,

While this process can be understood retrospectively, after a phenomenological analysis of the transcendence of prior knowledge, it necessarily happens moment to moment despite our conscious awareness of it or not. If we are to consciously apply our intentional gaze towards progressing through contradictory knowledge, it only seeks to erode the dissonance. In this way, philosophical understanding can develop through a dialectical system of thesis antithesis synthesis. In general, the philosopher should never stop the conversation within oneself, never settle on an ideology, or think that one has the whole picture. This mode of maintaining one’s own fallibility naturally encourages the Hegelian dialectical movement, which, apart from happening subconsciously, we can utilize in our ability to formulate higher order truths towards the containment of seemingly contradictory truths, that is, as long as we abstain from certainty in regards to any one idea.