language vs reality

The Buddhist term for wholesome desire is chanda. Chanda is desire that arises from a place of non-tension. It often feels like a relaxed current, but can sometime be strong, channeled, like a great benevolent wave surging outward – and yet it is unattached to outcome. Intensify this style of desire while releasing craving & clinging, and genius... See more

Ostat­nio byłem na Occul­tu­re Con­fe­ren­ce, gdzie pozna­łem oso­by eks­plo­ru­ją­ce filo­zo­fię Wil­lia­ma Sewar­da Bur­ro­ugh­sa, auto­ra Nagie­go lun­chu . Bur­ro­ughs uwa­żał, że ludz­kość zosta­ła uwię­zio­na przez wiru­sa, któ­rym jest język. Według pisa­rza ist­nie­je tyl­ko to, co umie­my nazwać – więc język two­rzy naszą rze­czy­wi­stość.... See more

Learning any language can entail the development of a different ‘way of seeing’ or quality of perception that was not expressed (and is as such ‘unknown’) within our own linguistic context. This ubiquitous truth of language learning – that ‘the limits of our language are the limits of our world’ – becomes even more demonstrably true when studying a... See more

But to see a particular person in terms of Irish or German, Jewish or Catholic, black or white, Alcoholic or Suicidal, Victim or Borderline, sees class concepts, not people. We are then talking sociology more than soul. We need an incredible number of words to read expressions. “Most people cannot ‘say’ what the person before them is like, but

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In post-structuralist literary theory, meaning is a central concern. By meaning, I am not referring to some grand purpose for an individual or for humanity, but rather the simpler and more prosaic concept discussed by linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. The connection between a signifier and its signified, between a word and its referent, is the issue.

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