tag > Philosophy
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Don't let your life & dreams, your awareness & intention, be moved even a bit by the omnipresent projections of immanent doom & gloom made by the army of 'experts'. Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing - and forgive yourself, for there are no others. Simply deeply relax & be still to realize that that this lifetime is short & precious. Watch your thoughts, words, actions & habits - as they become your reality. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
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“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly, you are doing the impossible.” ~ Saint Francis of Assisi
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“Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well and times shall be good. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo
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The peculiar world of internal arts practitioners in the age of youtube - talking about the untalkable:
Videos of Adam Mizner on Taiji, Meditation and Internal arts
- Adam Mizner - Podacast 001 Some chat about the path
- Adam Mizner - 002 Taiji as a Path
- What is Yi or Mind Intention in Taichi? Adam Mizner Explains
- From Gross to Subtle - Teaching Moments with Adam Mizner
- Adam Mizner Prague - Sway with me
- Adam Mizner explains what Meditation Is
Videos of Master Huai Hsiang Wang (Howard Wang) on Prana Dynamics the internal arts.
- Introducing Master Huai Hsiang Wang - Prana Dynamics (1)
- "No rooting, no kungfu." - Prana Dynamics (2)
- Internal vs. External, what's different? - Prana Dynamics (3)
- Essence, Energy, Spirit - The Trinity of Chinese Kungfu - Prana Dynamics (Part 5)
- How to train Zhan Zhuang - Standing Postures Explained - Prana Dynamics (Part 6)
- How to transcend the mind - Prana Dynamics (Part 7)
- Is Building Muscle Counterproductive for Internal Martial Arts? - Prana Dynamics (Part 8)
- The Steele of One Hundred Words by Lu Dongbin
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"Don't look for what is far and neglect what is near" - "Most that forget what is near, are looking for what is far" - T'ai chi idiom
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Bukowski Conjecture
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - Charles Bukowski
"The problem with the world is that many people have no doubt that they are intelligent, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. - Samim
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Save time? For who? Against all time thieves!
Image from "Momo" (1973), the tale for young adults, by Michael Ende
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"Study the science of art. Study the art of Science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." - Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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Diagram showing how Jesuit missionaries imported & diffused Mahayana Indian philosophy in Europe from 1551-1750. Virtually all major 17th-19th century western thinkers were exposed to high Indian philosophy. Similar map for diffusion of Indian calculus should be made.
What 'novel ideas' did these Indian texts(in Chinese & Japanese) contain?
- -Realism vs Idealism debate
- -"Transcendental Idealism"=Vijñānavāda
- -Advanced treatises of logic
- -Separation of Ethics & religion
- -Utilitarianism
- -Rejection of 'soul' & afterlife
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Source of Diagram: "Cult of Emptiness" - by Urs App
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything - "The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum."
Just to add the appropriate a pinch of humor to this very serious and very scientific topic:
Shi Yong Xin - Abbot of the famous Shaolin Temple - in an interview he gave to the Xinhua News Agency in China: "Monks Can Enter Outer Space through Practice and Aliens Exist":
"It is a Buddhist belief that there exists (throughout the universe) many different worlds, each containing a number of different forms of alien life – all of which are essentially empty and existing within space. As a monk directly realises this empty state at all times, in theory there is nowhere he could not go." - "Empty space can be penetrated and understood through the cultivation of the mind – here and now – and physically experienced as the body transmigrates throughout the universe and the six realms of rebirth."
Image from "Museum of Alien Studies" that does "Alien Divination".
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"A true practitioner always avoids discriminating between self and others, but concentrates and relies on the Buddha at all times." - Master Xu Yun (虚云) (1952)
Illustrations from "A Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun"
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Longevity of Ideas: Being, Nothing, Becoming - Input, Controller, Output - Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo
