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>>18668351

>Zen teachers stress a state of mind called mushin, which could be likened to a state of total absorption in a task. This concentration helps subdue the ego so that mind and body can work in a free, natural, and uninhibited way

Found a copy of Schiller’s Mary Stuard, something from Shaw called Major Barbara, and a small collection of Russian drama. Five authors in 342 pages. Published in 1963 so the pages are all yellow and brown around the edges

>>14497423
Who’s boundaries?
Opinions only. The kind of boundaries authoritarians want are squelching. They produce one outcome. You see variety as “malaise” and I assume you think the same of nature’s variety

>>14485109
>currently reading

This. Yes, I like it very much

>Melancholy, an emotion nurtured in the Zen world, was used as a whetstone on which to sharpen spiritual awareness; this was not a self-indulgent form of self-pity but rather a sadness tinged with an intangible longing. It was in the face of the most undesirable of human conditions that real beauty could be found and the chords of the unconscious spirit, so aware of our fragility, can be touched very deeply when our worlds are put into context. Some, like the great Zen academic Daisetz Suzuki, suggest that it is a longing for the world we left as children, the world of the here and now, undefined by language or values, just a pure experience of reality. It is a world that, at some point in everyone’s childhood, is surrendered for the world of logic—a world that is constantly being analyzed and explained by intellectual machinations, a world that is no longer in direct contact with the present.

>>14477286
Foolish frog poster. You have much to learn.

Currently reading: Wabi Sabi

>With the great haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644–1684), the term sabi was employed as an aesthetic juxtaposition to the essence of life and threw into focus the impermanence of our situation and the folly of trying to deny this unmovable truth. The beauty of Basho’s prose, however, took the negative aspects of old age, loneliness, and death and imbued them with a serene sense of beauty.
>Melancholy, an emotion nurtured in the Zen world, was used as a whetstone on which to sharpen spiritual awareness; this was not a self-indulgent form of self-pity but rather a sadness tinged with an intangible longing. It was in the face of the most undesirable of human conditions that real beauty could be found and the chords of the unconscious spirit, so aware of our fragility, can be touched very deeply when our worlds are put into context. Some, like the great Zen academic Daisetz Suzuki, suggest that it is a longing for the world we left as children, the world of the here and now, undefined by lan- guage or values, just a pure experience of reality. It is a world that, at some point in everyone’s childhood, is surrendered for the world of logic—a world that is constantly being analyzed and explained by intellectual machinations, a world that no is longer in direct contact with the present.

One of the many books I’m in the middle of.
It’s okay. Not sure what to compare it to. Been many years since I’ve read Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet

>>14128496
I like wabi sabi

Spend a little time calling this turd out >>14024227

The Christians latched onto Plato and everybody still misunderstands the world in these ways, so yeah, I take a jab at Forms. Nothing lasts forever. All is transitory. I don’t see that as senseless. Too much info?
Guilty of packing too much into brief tweets and confusing you. ‘Kay.

I also feel this is related.

>>13878051
It marches on. Ending capitalism would redirect its utility from war machines and consumerism to preserving nature and making a more sustainable way of life. Certainly living with less energy consumption should be a goal.

People who are free lead happy lives.

>>13818217
Plato wasn’t very bright.

Here’s one.

Dawn sounds interesting.
I’d like to spend some alone time in Norway