The internal logic corroborates instead the lesson here adopted. Non-knowing and non-desiring (in the sense of discursive knowing and the desiring of the individual) are the traits repeatedly attributed to the True Man of the Tao Te Ching which in him are virtues insofar as they would be the opposite in laymen and the common people Continue reading
A great philosophy is not one that resolves the questions once and for all, but one that poses them; that a great philosophy is not one that pronounces, but one that demands. Continue reading
the relativity and the irrelevance of human distinctions is deduced from the principle of correlation of opposites; therefore, of all the current values which correspond to nothing in reality: “only great spirits are capable of understanding.” (Chuang Tze) Continue reading
See Table of Contents First let me introduce myself. People who know me very well say that I have a mentality which is medieval and not modern, rural and not urban, that I am an “incurable romantic and idealist”, and that I have a “peasant mindset”. To all of the … Continue reading
The chain of productions and transformations is interrupted, the producer and the transformer producing and transforming without it — the producer is unmovable, the transformer comes and goes. And the motionless and the mobile endure always. Continue reading
matter and energy are equivalent, according to the famous equation of the Theory of Relativity. At the beginning, matter has zero mass. Said another way, there is only energy in the form of photons. Then, Planck’s equation relates the energy carried by a photon to its frequency. Therefore, at time 0, everything was vibration Continue reading
You say you don’t believe in such superstitions. Does that really make it OK? Do you really mean that you can lust, hate, steal, or bring pain just because no one will ever find out? That is really sad. You would be better off believing the superstition than believing your own denials, lies, and self-deception. Continue reading
Baboons live in small troops that are hierarchical and patriarchal. Such a social organisation has served the baboons well for their two million year history. Nevertheless, this concerns Sapolsky as he claims it leads to stress in the baboons. Continue reading
The more man progresses on the Way, the more his feeling of being a stranger is intensified. Soon he will become boring: later still he will become unbearable, and finally, odious. That is why ‘the prophet is despised in his country, among his close relations and in his own house.’ Continue reading
Philosophers, and everyone else for that matter, believe that they are following an impulse to knowledge. Nietzsche challenges that with the assertion that unconscious impulses—perhaps genii, demons, or kobolds—are the real sources of their “philosophy”. But long before Nietzsche, or Jung, or even Peterson, that was the teaching of the esoteric schools. Continue reading