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Category: Method or META HODOS

• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  Philosophy Should Come Out to Play

  I want to suggest that we divide play into two major categories; active and passive. The passive forms — let’s call them amusements — are indeed suspicious, as they seem to anesthetize the agent and reduce creative engagement. From our “bread and circuses” television culture to Aldous Huxley’s soma culture…

  April 28, 2015
• Dao de Jing Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Is that so? Maybe.

  Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769) travelled extensively to learn from other masters. When he was 32 years old, he returned to the Shoin-ji, the temple in his home town of Hara, in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture. Here he devoted himself to teaching a growing number of disciples. Hakuin was praised by his…

  April 4, 2015
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  

  Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy

  Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm will describe how to upload ancient wisdom into modern technology. He will reveal the code for the antivirus to stress, show how to delete depression, and give Buddha-tech support to peace of mind. Synergizing Mindfulness with Kindness, we can transform the iPad into the UsPad and…

  February 27, 2015
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  Liminality… and Hope – Patricia Damery

  Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn’t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering treatment. The old way no longer works, but the new…

  February 23, 2015
• AnarchoCynicism Control Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Mind Altering

  February 5, 2015
• Control Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Outrospection

  Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves.

  January 13, 2015
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

  Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with oneself – is an extraordinarily vital and alive activity in…

  January 4, 2015
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  Fairy Tales: Honest Harshness, Wishful Hoping

  Folktales, bedtime stories, and reworked myths open us up to the power contained in the “amoral scheme of the world.’ Fantastic images can become mundane by having pithy morals at the end… but they can be reinvigorated and lead beyond stymied notions of good vs. evil when they remind us…

  January 2, 2015
• Art/Skill/Techne Control Method or META HODOS

  Science Fiction and the Post-Ferguson World: “There Are as Many Ways to Exist as We Can Imagine”

  Walidah Imarisha, a writer and activist, coined the term “visionary fiction” to describe how we can use science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres to envision alternatives to unjust and oppressive systems.I talked with Imarisha about how science fiction can inspire us to build a more just world, where an unarmed…

  December 7, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Getting Started with Phenomenology

  Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in Edmund Husserl. If you have that, you can go on…

  November 23, 2014
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Speaking in Tongues

  humming refrigerator pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral tapping keyboard pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral cursor flashing on screen pleasure – neutral – pain ? neutral breathe breathe breathe where mind wanders at night along the pathways of memory class lectures and money exchanges gym workout and…

  November 21, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  detachment – non-clinging – letting-go

  philosophizing as a way of life: the willingness to embrace uncertainty, and the will to ask questions. loving – believing – living

  November 20, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  More on the Night Vigil

  Continuing to collect every bit of popular writing that points out the importance of the night vigil…even if that is not what they call it. 🙂 …humans did not evolve to sleep through the night in one solid chunk. Until very recently, they slept in two stages… via The 8-hour…

  November 17, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life Whatever

  

  Socratic Love

  Love is simple.

  October 30, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Zanotti Explores the Philosophy of Everyday Life

  In his first chapter, “What Is Philosophy?” Zanotti explains precisely why philosophy and life are so intimately bound together. The author recalls a time when he reached a crossroads in life, and was presented with two fundamental choices: live or be lived. For Zanotti, being lived means being swept away by circumstances…

  October 24, 2014
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Whatever

  

  Ressentiment on Aug 17

  Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in the past now/here subsumed beneath where I’m cast backward leaning,…

  August 17, 2014
• Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS

  

  A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR

  Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A strong reader is a champ at refusing the sweet mutter…

  July 27, 2014
• Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  The Dignity of Solitude

  In a post two months back, I listed the four moral attitudes that Jaspers holds as the necessary conditions of existential communication. At the top is “the dignity of solitude.” I collect here a few insights on solitude in faith for the benefit of my good brothers and sisters throughout…

  May 24, 2014