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Tracks vanishing in the mist have a strange symbolism. Like to never take a train to some other world as master Miyazaki had portayed. The train would be full of spooky strangers anyway. Only ghosts could travel to such a mist. And yet, the hope lingers. Or is it a fear of that actually happening one day? To fly away or to become a ghost, there is no difference...
As every year, on the third Thursday of November, we celebrate World Philosophy Day. We are few philosophers and not very well known, but our activity of reflection and teaching of this wonderful discipline is increasingly important in these complicated times we live in.
I personally teach philosophy to young people and it is the most exciting activity I have ever done.
Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant are the great minds that will help us to understand ourselves. Sapere Aude!
Happy World Philosophy Day
“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Paul Russell is a professor in philosophy at Lund University, where he is Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project [LGRP]. Paul Russell is also a professor in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he has been teaching since 1987.
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Humility, Restraint, Simplicity,
Worn, Weathered, Imperfect,
Softened and transcended by tea to a simpler philosophy :-)
Paper, gouache,watercolors , 2003
This painting is one of the series "Their secret ..."
The series "Their secret ...", is dedicated to the flowers,
their soul ...
Specifically, this picture is my impression from looking at one of Orchids
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Same place, another time: Barcelona, view out from the gate of the CCC Barcelona (Centro de Cultura Contemporania) to the Entrance of the Faculty of Philosophy
The Dugald Stewart Monument, on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dedicated to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, a leading philosopher of his time. Stewart held the chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, teaching philosophy, natural philosophy, economics, logic, and Greek for 42 years, from 1786 until his death in 1828. The monument was designed by noted architect William Henry Playfair, responsible for so much of Edinburgh's architecture. It was completed in 1831, and is a category A listed.
Taken with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place
When they can fly anywhere on the earth
Then I ask myself the same question
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you ( Quote: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
If there is a sub theme this morning on our walk through Invermay, it is not powerlines (though one is shown here). It's actually corners. This beautiful Federation style house stands on a corner. It always looks its best in sunlight.
Chasing here, there and everywhere seeking more of the same.
When all you need to find you have already.
Excerpt from historicplaces.ca:
Description of Historic Place
The Navy Hall stands alone in a carefully manicured park setting just below Fort George National Historic Site. Designed with clear, clean lines, it is a low, rectangular, stone-clad structure with a hipped-roof clad in copper, and with a symmetrical organization of its windows and entry points. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
Heritage Value
The Navy Hall is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building because of its historical associations, and its architectural and environmental values.
Historical Value:
The Navy Hall is a very good example of a building associated with the beginnings of the heritage movement in the first half of the 20th century. It illustrates changing approaches to the management of important historic buildings over time. In particular, it illustrates the role of aesthetics in conservation in the 1930s. Originally a commissariat storehouse, regular troops, the militia and also the Boy Scouts used the building, built in 1815. In the 1930s, the building was taken over by the Niagara Parks Commission.
Architectural Value:
The Navy Hall is valued for its good aesthetic design. The exterior fabric of the structure, the stone cladding, the copper clad roof, and the enhanced symmetry of the fenestration are features of the 1930s intervention. These features, clearly of a later era and philosophy, reflect the classical revival tastes of the period and the design idiom of the Niagara Parks Commission. Good functional design is evidenced in the placement of doors and windows, and in the spatial arrangement and planning of the interior.
Environmental Value:
The Navy Hall reinforces the landscaped parkway that runs along the Niagara lakefront and is a familiar landmark to residents and to visitors.
Character-Defining Elements
The character-defining elements of the Navy Hall should be respected.
Its good aesthetic, good functional design and good quality materials and craftsmanship, for example:
-the simple, rectangular massing.
-the low-pitched hipped roof, the copper roof cladding, and the symmetrically placed chimneys.
-the stone cladding of the exterior walls, the small multi-paned windows and large entrances.
-the interior spatial arrangement of the principal rooms.
The manner in which the Navy Hall reinforces the landscaped setting and is a familiar landmark, as evidenced by:
-its simple design and materials that harmonize with the landscaped parkway consisting of well-maintained lawns and walks, all introduced as part of the Niagara Park Commission’s parkway landscaping in the 1930s.
-its visibility and recognition by those frequenting the parkway and the National Historic Site.
The crystal wave, which, imperceptible to the ordinary sense, springs in the dark bosom of the mound against whose foot breaks the flood of the world, he who has tasted it, he who has stood on the mountain frontier of the world, and looked across into the new land, into the abode of the Night -- truly he turns not again into the tumult of the world, into the land where dwells the Light in ceaseless unrest.
- Novalis (1800)
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More image of my wild river...!!!
My wild river reflection …!!!
An impressionnist photo safari concentrated mainly on a daily basis (or almost) on my small piece of planet of 55 000 square feet …!!!
A Thoreau "waldennienne" approach …!!!
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Vision onirique...!!!
Reflet de ma rivière sauvage …!!!
Un safari photo impressioniste au quotidien concentré essentiellement (ou presque) sur un petit morceau de planète de 55 000 pieds carrés ...!!!
Une démarche "waldennienne" à la Thoreau …!!!
“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.”
― John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
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Until the philosophy, I will like to divide it with those which want to learn...
Which hold one race
Superior and another, inferior
Is finally, and permanently
Discredited and abandonned
Everywhere is war
Me say war
Bob Marley.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is a 2014 book by the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford. It argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant lifeform on Earth. Sufficiently intelligent machines could improve their own capabilities faster than human computer scientists, and the outcome could be an existential catastrophe for humans.
or "The Great Leap" or "Hold the Line !!!" or "Ζζ"or "∞" ________________________________________________
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[...] The phrase "empty" is already a negation of itself, but one can not remain silent. The problem is to inform the silence, without leaving it. For this reason Zen avoids it as much as possible to take refuge in the language, and tries to make us penetrate behind the words that we speak - what is there - dig. Meister Eckhart does unstinting in his sermons.
He selects a few harmless words from the Bible and makes them a "home affairs" show that he experiences in his subconscious mind.
His idea is not in the words themselves, he turns them into instruments of his own intention.
Similarly, works with the Zen master of some things around him, including his own person, any trees, stones, sticks, etc He may then scream, hit or deal kicks. The main thing is it clear what is behind all these actions. In order to show that reality is "empty", he can stand still with hands folded over his chest. If him another question is asked, he might shake the tea plant, or go without a word of it or put the questioner a stick blow.
Sometimes the master of poetic and compares the spirit of the "emptiness" with the moon, it calls the "mind-moon" the moon or the Sun-safety-An old master of the Zen philosophy sings of the moon:
The moon is lonely and complete:
The light engulfs the ten thousand things
nor that the world exists of the things
Light, world, and things are gone,
and what remains - what is it?
The master leaves the question open. Would she answered, the moon would no longer there. Reality splits, and emptiness leads to emptiness.
We should not lose sight of the original moon, the primordial spirit-moon, and the master wants us to reflect on it, because with him we have started.
Emptiness is not empty space, it contains within itself infinite light, and all the diversity of the world, it absorbs it.
The Buddhist philosophy is the philosophy of "emptiness," the philosophy of self-identity. Self-identity is to be distinguished from mere identity.
For a mere identity, there are two objects that are found to be identical to each other, when there self-identity is only one object or subject, a single, and this one finds its identity by coming out of himself.
Self-identity thus includes movement. And we note: self-identity is Spirit, who goes out of itself, to see themselves mirrored in.
Self-identity is the logical substrate of pure knowledge, or of "emptiness".
In the self-identity, there are no contradictions. The Buddhists call it that So-heit. [...]
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[…] Die Aussage „leer“ ist bereits eine Verneinung ihrer selbst. Aber man kann nicht stumm bleiben. Das Problem ist, die Stille mitzuteilen, ohne sie zu verlassen. Aus diesem Grunde vermeidet Zen es soviel wie möglich, Zuflucht zur Sprache zu nehmen, und bemüht sich, uns hinter die Worte dringen zu lassen, damit wir gleichsam – was dort ist – auszugraben. Eckhart tut das unentwegt in seinen Predigten.
Er wählt einige harmlose Worte aus der Bibel und lässt sie ein „Inneres“ aufdecken, das er in seiner unbewussten Bewusstsein erfährt.
Sein Gedanke liegt keineswegs in den Worten selbst. Er macht sie zu Instrumenten seiner eigenen Absicht.
Auf ähnliche Weise bedient sich der Zen-Meister irgendwelcher Dinge um ihn herum, einschließlich der eigenen Person, irgendwelcher Bäume, Steine, Stöcke u.s.w. Er mag dann laut schreien, schlagen oder Fusstritte austeilen. Hauptsache es wird klar, was hinter all diesen Handlungen steckt. Um zu zeigen, dass die Wirklichkeit „Leere“ ist, kann er stillstehen mit gefalteten Händen über der Brust. Wenn ihm eine weitere Frage gestellt wird, mag er die Teepflanze schütteln oder wortlos davon gehen oder dem Frager einen Stockhieb versetzen.
Zuweilen ist der Meister poetischer und vergleicht den Geist der „Leere“ mit dem Mond, nennt ihn den „Geist-Mond“ oder den Mond der So-heit- Ein alter Meister der Zen-Philosophie singt von diesem Mond:
Der Mond ist einsam und vollendet:
Das Licht verschlingt die zehntausend Dinge,
noch dass die Welt der Dinge existiert,
Licht, Welt und Dinge sind dahin,
und das was bleibt – was ist´s?
Der Meister lässt die Frage offen. Würde sie beantwortet, wäre der Mond nicht mehr da. Wirklichkeit spaltet sich auf, und Leere mündet in Leere.
Wir sollten die Sicht auf den ursprünglichen Mond nicht verlieren, den uranfänglichen Geist-Mond, und der Meister möchte, dass wir uns auf ihn besinnen, denn bei ihm haben wir begonnen.
Leere ist nicht leerer Raum, in sich enthält sie unbegrenztes Licht, und alle Vielfalt der Welt nimmt sie in sich auf.
Die buddhistische Philosophie ist die Philosophie der „Leere“, die Philosophie der Selbst-Identität. Selbst-Identität ist zu unterscheiden von bloßer Identität.
Bei bloßer Identität gibt es zwei Objekte, die als miteinander identisch festgestellt werden, Bei der Selbst-Identität gibt es nur ein Objekt oder Subjekt, ein einziges, und dieses eine stellt seine Identität fest, indem es aus sich herausgeht.
Selbst-Identität schließt also Bewegung ein. Und wir stellen fest: Selbst-Identität ist Geist, der aus sich heraus geht, um in sich selbst gespiegelt zu sehen.
Selbst-Identität ist das logische Substrat reiner Erkenntnis oder von „Leere“.
In der Selbst-Identität gibt es keinerlei Widersprüche. Die Buddhisten nennen es So-heit. […]
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Source: D.T. Suzuki, „Der westliche und der östliche Weg“ (The Western and Eastern Weg),
Chapter: „Meister Eckhart und der Buddhismus“ (Meister Eckhart and the Buddhism)
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Introduction (Cover)
This book is a volume of "World Perspectives", which set the task to issue short writings of contemporary thinkers responsible in various areas.
The intention is to show fundamental new directions in the 'modern civilization, to interpret the creative forces that are in the east and west, at work, and the new consciousness to make clear that a deeper understanding of the interaction between man and the universe, can the individual and society and all nations shared values.
The "world outlook" represent the world community of ideas in a universal call, emphasizing the principle of unity of mankind, the continualness in the conversion.
Ullstein Publishing house - 1957
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|| Wikipedia: D. T. Suzuki || Meister Eckhart || Ζζ || Set: Αα - Ωω ||
The old buildings and the new grain storage tanks signify generations on the land. Australia's first and only Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Patrick White (1912-1990), wrote of these experiences in what some consider his greatest novel: The Tree of Man (1955).
patrickwhitecatalogue.com/novels/tree/
I remember studying Patrick White in high school literature classes in the 1970s, just after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1973. It was often jokingly said (but with a grain of truth) that he was Australia's greatest unread novelist. Sadly, that statement is even more true today. lithub.com/on-patrick-white-australias-great-unread-novel...
But then that is true of most quality literature in this almost post-literary age. The book and literature remains the essential lifeblood of culture however, as it was long ago for the Greeks with Homer. Americans spent much of the 20th century looking for the "great American novel". And perhaps Patrick White's The Tree of Man comes close to that in Australian terms. The only writer I consider in his category of literary importance in the past 70 years of Australian writing is David Malouf, to whom White was a great mentor and friend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf
In the case of White and Malouf, the key elements are a deep understanding of the historical currents that shape a culture, and an intuitive sense of the poetic.
But let me conclude with a memory of Patrick White - the man. I once heard him speak in 1983 at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He packed out the largest lecture theatre and addressed what he considered the most critical issue of the day: Nuclear Disarmament. Patrick White inspired us that day, not because he was obsessively political. But as a man of passion who spoke of a deep sadness at how the world that once imagined greatness like Homer, could be reduced to shrilled rats in a cage fearful that one of the superpowers would drop the bomb.
I will never forget that speech as long as I live. Here was a man proving why literature is still important and that we dismiss it at our eternal peril. We are now entrusted to care for the very land our ancestors passed down to us. Let us not fail in that duty.