eriences (e.g.

failing a subject)
b. SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITATIONS
 socioeconomic status
 location of neighborhood (e.g. armed, disorganized, or violent neighborhood)
 abusive relationships (e.g. emotional abuse) negative influences (e.g. drug use)41
OVERCOMING LIMITATIONS
Bodily limits can be tested by trying on new experiences and working on challenges
with increasing
levels of difficulty. The human body, if given enough exposure to any situation, can
attain a goal with
efficiency.
Social and environmental limitations are more difficult to overcome than bodily
limitations because
they involve the influence of other people and the external world. However, with a
proper mindset, clearly
defined goals, and motivation to rise above challenges, one may successfully
overcome his or her limitations.
RECOGNIZE AND EVALUATE OWN LIMITATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES
FOR TRANSCENDENCE
Even though you are still young, you are not prevented from further understanding
yourself.
Transcendence is even more possible when you begin to understand that you can go
beyond your limitations if
you set your mind on your goals.
SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER WHEN GOING BEYOND YOUR LIMITS
 you are connected to the external or eternal world
 challenges are learning opportunities
 your goal is more important than your fears
 think outside the box
 recognize that everyone has fears
TIPS
The terms “transcendent” and transcendental” should not be used interchangeably.
According to
Immanuel Kant, “transcendent” is a term used to refer to God, while “transcendental”
refers to all other matter.
While transcendence may not occur for everyone, all people have the capacity to
experience it
regardless of any sociodemographic, biological, or personal factors.
Exercise 3. “Knowing who am I”
Directions: Complete the chart by rewriting your present limitations with reference to your
answers in the previous
activities. Make an action plan towards transcendence.
My Limitations
Plan Towards Transcendence
REVISED KNOWLEDGE: Actual answer to the process questions/ focus
questions
1. What is transcendence?
Transcendence is the ability to change, be dynamic, and continually redefining one’s
self which
works with our facticity to create things.
2. How do you show love toward others? Friends? Family? People in need?
Important things in life are the times we made the life of others meaningful. It is not
just the
material things but the love, time, patience, and kindness extended to others that
count.
3. How can our attachment to, or craving for worldly pleasures cause suffering?
Cite examples
Suffering is caused by hurting others by means of lying, theft, harming the
environment, being
lazy, or not helping those in need.
 One view is that evil balances the good. Another is God lets us choose and decide
freely. Evil
or suffering could also be God’s test to humanity.
 For Christians, the suffering of Jesus on the cross serves as a symbol of God’s love
for humanity.
For Buddhism, suffering leads to compassion for the suffering humanity.42
FINAL KNOWLEDGE: Generalization/ Synthesis/ Summary
Indian thought recognizes the complimentary thought of all systems of belief.
Hinduism is neither
rooted in any single doctrine, nor does it claim a monopoly on truth or wisdom.
Similarly, Buddhism preaches
tolerance of all sincere viewpoints and includes many of these with its own spiritual
teachings.
Between humanity and God, there is an infinite gap, which God alone can bridge
through His power.
Perfection by participation means that it is a union of humanity with God. Change
should promote not just
any purely private advantage, but the good of the community.
The transpersonal worldview of the Filipinos underlies the belief that the individual
can go beyond
human limitations such as geography, space, and time. The transpersonal worldview
encompasses the world
as run by “spirit” or “spirits” such as God, mind, providence and others.
Human beings therefore, has a supernatural transcendental destiny. This means that
he/she can rise
above one’s ordinary being or self to a highest being or self. For St. Thomas Aquinas,
in the plan of God, a
human being has to develop and perfect one’s self by doing his/her daily task. Hence,
if a human being
perseveringly lives a righteous and virtuous life,