The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Proust

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Whenever you find that you’re on the side of the majority, it’s time to reform.

Mark twain

Celou dobu jsem říkal, že chcete-li přežít temnou noc, musíte se stát temnějšími. Nyní mohu dodat: Dobrý způsob, jak se stát temnějšími, je vyvinout pronikavý cit pro ironickou stránku života kolem vás. Můžete rozvinout vědomý smysl pro humor, který vám umožní prohlédnout skrz povrch světa a jeho falešné hodnoty. Nestanete se cynickými - to byste zašli příliš daleko - ale ztratíte svou nevinnost. Uvědomíte si, že věci jsou někdy přesným opakem toho, čím se zdají, a použijete svůj důvtip k tomu, abyste se nenechali vést naivními, jednostrannými interpretacemi zkušenosti.

Dobrý způsob, jak se vyhnout "tragičnosti" ega, je oživovat smysl pro humor a pro komično. Možná dojdete až do bodu, kde si uvědomíte, že pokud chcete být šťastní, musíte upřímně a plně příjmout smutek, který je přítomen v každé události. Každé rozhodnutí pro štěstí vás dostane do problémů a vaše občasné odvážné výpady do temnot vám dají pocítit nebesa. Protiklady se vlévají jeden do druhého jako tisíce jinů a jangů, které se prostupují.

Mnoho teologů a náboženských lidí se ironii vyhýbají a místo ní se snaží uchránit své jednodimenzionální postoje, nedovolují si žádné tajmenství a tím pádem ani žádné opravdové náboženství.

Thomas Moore - Temné noci duše

"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.
__________

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)