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
Tyler Alterman • Unblocking genius as a mystical path
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
Scena niezależna rośnie i będzie rosnąć
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
Jacob Kyle • Demystifying Sanskrit
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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