“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
- Shri Ramana Maharshi
tag > Philosophy
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“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” ― Rumi
“Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.” — C.G. Jung
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"The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to." - Tao Te Ching
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Hexagram 49 - 革 (Ge) (Revolutionary Changes) - Yijing (I Ching) sign of the year 2025
Lower: Li (clinging, fire). Upper: Dui (joy, lake).
Li (fire): Clarity and transformation; burns away the old to reveal truth. Represents righteousness and enlightenment.
Dui (lake): Joy and openness; a calm receptivity to the changes ahead.
Summary: Fire below and lake above symbolize a necessary and righteous transformation. Shedding the old brings clarity and renewal, leading to joy and harmony.
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The Andromedean Paradox
In 1989, in his book The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose developed an intergalactic form of the Rietdijk - Putnam argument to prove the universe is pre-determined for special relativistic reasons. He describes the situation:
"Two people pass each other on the street; and according to one of the two people, an Andromedean space fleet has already set off on its journey, while to the other, the decision as to whether or not the journey will actually take place has not yet been made. How can there still be some uncertainty as to the outcome of that decision? If to either person the decision has already been made, then surely there cannot be any uncertainty. The launching of the space fleet is an inevitability."
The observers cannot see what is happening in Andromeda. It is light-years away. The paradox is that they have different ideas of what is happening "now" in Andromeda.
(The Emperor's New Mind, p.303)
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Hello 2025: Omnia Mirari, Gaudium Explorandi (To marvel at everything, the joy of exploring)
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From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences – by Ilya Prigogine (1981)
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Maya within Maya. An ILLUSION WITHIN the ILLUSION. Fractal illusion. Fractal illuminat.
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Decrease Desires. The P’u Principle.
The term means to lessen desires for external things. Humans are prone to pursue excessive desire, which can be harmful to themselves, cause problems with others and lead to social disorder. This is why both Confucian and Taoist scholars called for restraining desires. In Confucian thinking, self-moral cultivation is needed to restrain desires, which, in turn, provides an important way to foster one’s virtue. For Taoism, restraining desires can help people return to “a natural state.”
Mencius said, “The best way to conduct self-cultivation is to restrain desire. A person with few desires may be lacking in virtue, but such loss in limited; a person with many desires may still retain some virtue, but will lose much of it.” (Mencius)
Cast aside saintliness and wisdom, and the people will benefit greatly; cast aside benevolence and righteousness, and the people will revert to their natural dutiful feelings; cast aside smartness and gain and thieves will disappear. Saintliness and wisdom, benevolence and righteousness, and smartness and gain are all unnecessary embellishments and are inadequate for governance. People must return to their natural state and restrain their desire. (Laozi)
