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Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life

  • Daodejing 8

    Daodejing 8

    #8* The highest good is like water: Water is good at benefitting the 10,000 things yet never contends. Dwell in the place that the majority dislikes; thus, be close To Dào . Be good at dwelling in place; Be good at deepening heart. Be good at benevolent conduct. Be good at…

  • Suggestions – Rules – Advice –

    Suggestions – Rules – Advice –

    10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage with Hints & Amendments by Sister Corita Kent “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.” RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of…

  • Daodejing 7

    Daodejing 7

    #7* Heaven is eternal; earth is everlasting. The reason why heaven and earth can be eternal and everlasting? Because they do not exist for themselves, [they] thus can live long. Therefore, the Sage makes himself go behind yet he comes before; considers himself outside yet he is sheltered. [1] Is it…

  • Daodejing 6

    Daodejing 6

    #6* The Grain God never dies; it is called “the mysterious female”. The door of the mysterious female is called “the root of heaven and earth.” Existing endlessly, use it and never be exhausted. *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. Related articles Daodejing 7 (keithwaynebrown.com) [forthcoming] Daodejing 5 (keithwaynebrown.com)…

  • Daodejing 5

    Daodejing 5

    #5* Heaven and earth have no mercy, treating the 10,000 things as straw dogs; the Sage has no mercy, treating people as straw dogs. [1]  The space between Heaven and earth Just like a bellows! Empty but never Exhausted; work it And some more comes out. More words speed up failure,…

  • Zetetics

    Zetetics

    Doing some research on the notion of zetetic only to find my dear friend Pete A. Y. Gunter quoted by this gentleman. I had forgotten about this term zetetics. As I move more and more back to philosophizing through dialog with youth, it might start popping up a bit more around here.  The…

  • Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com Karl Jaspers‘ General Psychopathology was one of the first psychiatric studies…

  • Amor fati

    Today everyone allows himself to express his dearest wish and thoughts: so I, too, want to say what I wish from myself today and what thought first crossed my heart -what thought shall be the reason, warrant, and sweetness of the rest of my life! I want to learn more…

  • Daodejing 36

    Daodejing 36

    #36* To shrink it, expand it. To weaken it, strengthen it. To demote it, promote it. To take it, give it. Call this subtle brilliance: Bending and weakness overcomes rigidity and strength. *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. Related articles Daodejing 37 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Now being…

  • “Seek out historic …

    “Seek out historic …

    “Seek out historic distractions–purposeful conspiracy and habitual con-spiring (breathing a common air)–by which those who would claim to hold power try to keep empowered. Power belongs to no person. It already flows from the Way and always returns to the Way. This is the only knowledge that is enduringly powerful.”…

  • Nothingness and Liberation

    Nothingness and Liberation

    As an anarchocynic, I find myself looking through the open and secret history of humankind very often. Part of my apparent contradiction to folks comes from how one must needs hop from this to that to the other in order to follow a line of thinking that is more covered…

  • Cool As A Cucumber

  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at…

  • Max Stirner

    Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. […] Without our assistance, time will not bring the right word to light; we must all work together on it.…

  • piercing intension

    piercing intension

    the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best moment of stillness and silence where all the children of…

  • A Discussion With Cryptome

    Fascinating interview over at Gawker… Gawker: Snowden told the Guardian that in leaking these documents he wanted to reveal the “architecture of oppression.” You’re both architects—what does that term mean to you? Young: People take it metaphorically, but we think he means the actual, physical infrastructure. That’s how I took…

  • Daodejing 33

    Daodejing 33

    #33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet unforgotten: longevity. †The characters translated in these two lines both contain the glyph for sun. Lucidity is the combination of “know” and “sun”. Brilliance is the combination…