I need a clear definition of transendent. My boyfriend uses it all the time and it drives me crazy. His ex made him feel this way, what can I do to help him feel this way again?
2006-12-30 02:17:09 · 6 answers · asked by April N 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Transcendent means to go beyond the limits of ordinary experience. It means to lose oneself in an experience. Spirituality it means to drop the ego so that one experiences the true nature of BEING.
As long as your boyfriends thoughts and feelings remain with his ex he will find it difficult to have a transcedental experience with you. You are not to blame, it is up to him to "let go" and move on with his life.
2006-12-30 02:21:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
TRANSCENDENT
adj.
1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
3. Philosophy
1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.
2006-12-30 10:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you leave him with his silly fantasy and find someone a bit more connected to the now portion of reality.
His comments are foolish and insulting.
[adjective] beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself.
Love and blessings don
2006-12-30 10:25:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tran·scend
Pronunciation: tran(t)-'send
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin transcendere to climb across, transcend, from trans- + scandere to climb -- more at SCAN
transitive verb
1 a : to rise above or go beyond the limits of b : to triumph over the negative or restrictive aspects of : OVERCOME c : to be prior to, beyond, and above (the universe or material existence)
2 : to outstrip or outdo in some attribute, quality, or power
intransitive verb : to rise above or extend notably beyond ordinary limits
synonym see EXCEED
2006-12-30 10:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surpassing the natural.
2006-12-30 10:19:27 · answer #5 · answered by Cristina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-30 10:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋