"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato

Oprah Talks to Thich Nhat Hanh


Nhat Hanh: The question can be answered when you can answer this: What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world. Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature. Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice. Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

Oprah: Is that what you meant when you wrote one of my favorite poems, "Call Me By My True Name"?

Nhat Hanh: Yes. When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

Oprah: [ Reading from the poem ] "I am a mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.… I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the 12-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving…. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one. Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open, the door of compassion." What does that poem mean?

[ VIXLE @ USTAV . PRO . DUSEVNE . VYSMATE ]

DOGGY:

In March 2003, Rumsfeld engaged in a little bit of amateur philosophizing about the relationship between the known and the unknown:

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns," the things we don't know that we know-which is precisely, the Freudian unconscious, the "knowledge which doesn't know itself," as Lacan used to say.

If Rumsfeld thinks that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the "unknown unknowns," that is, the threats from Saddam whose nature we cannot even suspect, then the Abu Ghraib scandal shows that the main dangers lie in the "unknown knowns" - the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values.

Thus, Bush was wrong. What we get when we see the photos of humiliated Iraqi prisoners is precisely a direct insight into "American values," into the core of an obscene enjoyment that sustains the American way of life.

http://www.lacan.com/zizekrumsfeld.htm

DOGGY: K tomu ovšem chybí ona snadno přehlédnutelná možnost č. 4:

"Shit you don't know you know"

:)

David Deida: The Way of the Superior Man

Live With an Open Heart Even If It Hurts

Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
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Be Willing to Change Everything in Your Life

It's easy to feel disappointed by life; success is never as fulfilling as you think it is going to be. But there is a reason for this. Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose. Each purpose, each mission, is meant to be fully lived to the point where it becomes empty, boring, and useless. Then it should be discarded. This is a sign of growth, but you may mistake it for a sign of failure.

hitovka :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Tohle je bezva klasika. Navic v bezva phd variante.

"Moc a kontrola nad vlastní chutí je prvním úkolem při plnění slibu brahmačariji. Zjistil jsem, že naprostá kontrola chuti umožňuje snadné splnění slibu, a proto jsem začal své stravovací experimenty přizpůsobovat nejen vegetariánství, ale též brahmačariji. Výsledek mých experimentů vyznívá následovně: brahmačarjova strava by měla být omezená, prostá, nekořeněná a – pokud možno – syrová. Šest let experimentu mi ukázalo, že ideálním jídlem brahmačariji je čerstvé ovoce a ořechy. Absenci vášní, kterou jsem takto získal, jsem do doby než jsem s dietou začal nepoznal."
(Mahatmá Gándhí)

Já u pramene jsem a žízní hynu;
horký jak oheň, zuby drkotám;
dlím v cizotě, kde mám svou domovinu;
ač blízko krbu, zimnici přec mám;
nahý jak červ, oděn jak prelát sám,
směji se v pláči, doufám v zoufání;
mně lékem je, co jiné poraní;
mně při zábavě oddech není přán;
já sílu mám a žádný prospěch z ní,
srdečně přijat, každým odmítán.
Jen to mi nesporné, co plno stínů;
kde světlý den, tam cestu sotva znám;
kde průzračnost, tam výkladem se minu;
svou znalost vděčím náhlým náhodám;
vše vyhrávaje, čím dál smolněj hrám;
dlím „dobrý večer“, jitro-li se skví;
když ležím naznak, strach mám z padání,
bohatství čekám, ničí nejsem pán;
mám vše, co chci, - nic, na čem srdce lpí –
srdečně přijat, každým odmítán.
K věcem, jež neznám, horoucně se vinu,
ženu se k cíli, jehož nežádám;
kdo ke mně vlídný, tomu dávám vinu;
kdo mluví pravdu, tomu lhářů lám;
můj druh je ten, kdo vemluví mně klam
a „labu? černá je jak havran“ dí;
v tom spojence zřím, kdo mi ublíží;
mně jedno, jsem-li šalbě ve psí dán;
mám v mysli vše, jen ne to nejbližší,
srdečně přijat, každým odmítán.
Ó kníže, každý, kdo to čte, nech? ví:
nic neznám, ač mám o všem vědomí.
Jsem stranický, jsem zastánce všech stran.
Co chci? Být z těch zas, plat kdo bráti smí,
srdečně přijat, každým odmítán.

- Francois Villon

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."


— Henry David Thoreau