100 posts tagged “vox hunt”
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Show us your favorite philosophical quote.
Submitted by Chicago Shadow.
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
Share a sentence from one of your favorite books.
That is why we should do what we have to do to make this meditation of looking deeply a matter of everyday life—when we are eating, when we are drinking, when we are sleeping—and one day we will be able to touch the ultimate reality that is in us (Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, 101).
No, I don’t have to have faith, I have experience (Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, interview with Bill Moyers, 259).
Here we are governed by that simple but countercultural rule, “No fixing, no saving, no advising, no setting each other straight” (Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, 114).
A mind that would be in a state in which the new can take place—whether it be the truth, whether it be God, or what you will—must surely cease to acquire, to gather; it must put aside all knowledge (J. Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom, 65).
All structures of meaning and realms of coherence, which human reason constructs, face the chasm of meaninglessness when men discover that the tangents of meaning transcend the limits of existence (Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man, in Readings in Christian Thought, 314).
Share a book that made you laugh.
Every one of Sarah Vowell's books have made me laugh. She has a way with connecting current culture with history that makes me giggle. I read The Wordy Shipmates last year and just recently completed The Partly Cloudy Patriot. I listened to the audio book of Assassination Vacation in 2005 and am currently reading Take The Cannoli. I might be a fanboy.
Share a good tip with us.
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.
It also helps put the Bible into a theological perspective, as these highlighted areas now stand out from the commentary.
It's National Stress Awareness Day. Show us something that calms you.
Nature has a calming effect on me, especially trees, mountains, and water. These trees are at Highlands Hammock State Park near Sebring, Florida.
Show us creativity.
Creativity occurs when one lets go of their ideas and allows their mind to become open. When you let go of your ideas, filters and limitations are removed to allow something new to grow.
I offer this gray circle as a way to help a person let go of their ideas.
Show us the last Twitter that made you laugh.
It's International Brain Awareness week. Stump us with a brain teaser.
If you think of the brain as simply an entity in itself, the following passages from The Diamond Sutra appear to be brainteasers.
Chi-fo says, “Before we understand, we depend on instruction. After we understand, instruction is irrelevant. The dharmas taught by the Tathagata sometimes teach existence and sometimes teach non-existence. They are all medicines suited to the illness. There is no single teaching. But in understanding such flexible teachings, if we should become attached to existence or to non-existence, we will be stricken by the illness of dharma-attachment. Teachings are only teachings. None of them is real. The Buddha tells us that there is no teaching and that we should break through the barrier of words.” (132)
T’ai-neng says, “Delusion is the root of enlightenment. If someone uses this for their practice, it can become the means for transcending the world. The lotus doesn’t grow in high places. It only blooms in muddy water. Delusion doesn’t injure the enlightened mind. So, too, smoke and clouds obscure the sun and moon without injuring them. If a jewel is dropped into the mud, neither is the jewel injured. Don’t concern yourself with the clouds of delusion. Concentrate on the enlightened mind.” (163)
Subhuti says, “The dharma realized and taught by the Tathagata is incomprehensible and inexpressible. It is neither a dharma nor no dharma.” So why does the Buddha describe delusion here in much the same terms Subhuti applies to truth? Because truth and delusion are not separate. Delusion is truth seen through the eyes of foolish beings, while truth is delusion seen through the eyes of buddhas. Such delusions, however, are inexplicable and inexpressible because they are not real. Thus, they are no dharmas. But because people are attached to them, neither are they no dharmas. (416)
Thankfully, one can let go of their brain and finally become awake. Once this happens, these passages are no longer a puzzle.
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