Totally agree. The "reality we have made" is a reality of explanations and "knowing". It is very limited - that's the "hell" part about it.and so try to explain it as part of the reality we have made instead
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- September 1st, 2009, 7:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
- Replies: 5
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Re: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
- September 1st, 2009, 7:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rapture?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 91511
Re: Rapture?
"How do we explain the evident presence in our lives of Self-Realized Teachers, those like Buddha, Jesus, Nisargadatta, Ramakrishna, Rumi." Sorry for nitpicking here: What do you mean by "evident presence"? Of those teachers named, I have only "evident" presence of wri...
- August 24th, 2009, 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 24500
Re: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
Some thoughts after having listened to a russian balalaika street musician quartet interpreting Mozart in Salzburg (his birthplace city): Beauty is not measurable and not objective. Whether the play "of one of the best musicians in the world playing pieces of one of the best componists on one o...
- July 18th, 2009, 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rilke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 27601
Re: Rilke
Please, feel free to quote anything from these translations.
- June 9th, 2009, 6:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rilke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 27601
Re: Rilke
This poem is the last of Rilke's "Sonets to Orpheus". Orpheus, the singer, crossing the line to the land of the dead and coming back. But the last poem is not directed to Orpheus - it is directed to the listener but adressing him as going through the same metamorphosis, losing himself to g...
- May 28th, 2009, 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rilke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 27601
Rilke
I really love this one, hope the translation is not too coarse. --- Stiller Freund der vielen Fernen, fühle, wie dein Atem noch den Raum vermehrt. Im Gebälk der finstern Glockenstühle laß dich läuten. Das, was an dir zehrt, wird ein Starkes über dieser Nahrung. Geh in der Verwandlung aus und ein. Wa...
- May 28th, 2009, 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28471
Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
An english translation of another poem "By gracious powers" can be found here (sorry, probably I can't just paste it here for copyright reasons): http://www.ekd.de/medien/film/bonhoeffer/texte.html The first verse - which is also the closing one - has been turned into a song which is quite...
- May 28th, 2009, 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28471
Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Regarding "Who's asking" - Bonhoeffer wrote the following poem titled "Who am I" in June 1944: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=385 What may have begun for Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the "outer" side - as a politically and socially engaged christian - at...
- May 19th, 2009, 9:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28471
Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am also fascinated by this "turn" in Bonhoeffer's life. But actually I think it is not a turn - as his friend Eberhard Bethge shows in his biography, throughout Bonhoeffer's life, there is a movement from orthodoxy and strict morale through consequent action towards contemplation and tol...
- May 7th, 2009, 8:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Movie Suggestion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27521
Re: Movie Suggestion
Hello Reinhold, I agree now that thoroughly asking the question "Who am I" is the shortest path! And I have to admit that I was struggling with the german word "Bewußtsein" as a translation of "awareness", because it has the connotion of "consciousness", which...
- April 27th, 2009, 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Movie Suggestion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27521
Some afterthoughts ...
... after having seen this movie, too. The tale of John Oldman creates a mirror onto which each of the other persons - except for Sandy - projects something of his/her own. And all of them are hiding their projections behind some kind of "objective interest" or "search for objective t...
- March 3rd, 2009, 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tarkowskij's "Stalker" as a lesson in spirituality
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16109
Tarkowskij's "Stalker" as a lesson in spirituality
... I am barely able to describe what this film evokes in me. While from a cognitive perspective, there are different interpretations, Tarkowskij's intention is a purely spiritual one and he even rejected interpretations. In fact I never have seen a film as deeply spiritual as this one. And I never ...
- March 1st, 2009, 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16129
Two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich
Hello, I like these two paintings (amongst others by the same painter) as 'roadsigns' and want to share them with you. They are called "The Monk by the Sea" and "The Abbey in the Oakwood" and were painted as counterparts. Some general descriptions can be found at Wikipedia: http:...
- December 22nd, 2008, 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Oops
- Replies: 2
- Views: 22579
Re: Oops
Your first thought reminds me of a story from "One Minute Wisdom" by Anthony de Mello. Here it is (hopefully the translation back from German is ok): --- The master walked at the riverside together with some scholars. He said: "See, how the fish are swimming around where they like. Th...