Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life

  • Untitled post 3791

    Originally posted on stuffgradslike: If your eyes jumped to the title of this post, then this is probably for you.  The natural trajectory of most jobs for college grads (well, really all, in a sense) is that you will leave them! If you have a degree, it’s time to make a…

  • Untitled post 3780

    A nice run through of the precepts on the way to no-thinking. Namaste. Related articles Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing (keithwaynebrown.com) AI, or Awakened Intelligence (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) The Path to the Fearless (evolutionsangha.wordpress.com)

  • Inspiring Blogger Award

    I started doing this blog to have an outlet for all of the things that pop into my head. It has proved a very rewarding endeavor, not the least because I keep running across folks that are doing some great art, thinking, reporting, etc. Thanks to all of your for…

  • The Tenth Dimension

    The Tenth Dimension

    So, there is a lot of mind blowing thinking out in the realm of contemporary physics. Those of us who know the history of philosophy are not afraid to call a good deal of this metaphysics. Certainly, it is the kind of contemplation that can only be approached–even using the…

  • AI, or Awakened Intelligence

    AI, or Awakened Intelligence

    unfueled – uncompromised – undefined – unconditioned – unbounded : mindful #liberation : #nirvana — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) March 1, 2013 Let me make this over the top claim: “Artificial Intelligence” is actually what we do on a regular basis. Rather than being the thought process of a “thinking”…

  • Untitled post 3705

    Originally posted on Footnotes2Plato: Latour is introduced by professor of physics Wilson Poon, who publicly confesses to being a great admirer of Latour’s work. Latour, thinly veiling how tired he is of the “Science Wars,” thanks him for the “rare confession”: “I don’t have many friends among physicists.” Poon contributes…

  • Untitled post 3693

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: Philosophical Awakening This e-book, which is now available to order, is entitled Awakening to Philosophical Life: Essays Personal and Impersonal. It was completed at the end of February of 2013 and is meant to be a philosophical review of my attempt to be a moral exemplar:…

  • R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers

    R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers

    As those who have been visiting here for a while will know, the original address for this site was karljaspers23. My mentor, Richard M. Owsley, was a student of Prof. Dr. Jaspers. To say that Jaspers had an impact on my thinking would be quite the understatement. Thanks to skepticism.org…

  • Everything – Something- Nothing

    Everything – Something- Nothing

    Thirty years ago, before I began the study of Zen, I said, ‘Mountains are mountains, waters are waters.’ After I got insight into the truth of Zen through the instructions of a good master, I said, ‘Mountains are not mountains, waters are not waters.’ But now, having attained the abode…

  • Untitled post 3633

    Originally posted on Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon: Friday Much of what I write here, whether commenting on current affairs to delving into the depths of prehistory, could be classed under the general rubric of philosophy of history. One of my early posts to this forum was Of What…

  • Seeking what the Wise Seek

    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.” — Dogen Zenji “Not to borrow the strength of another,…

  • Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

    Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A podcast lecture by Abel Gunter from the international conference ‘Nietzsche on Mind and Nature’, held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. See on cleverbeast.tumblr.com Related articles Rick Roderick on Nietzsche (hornokpleese.wordpress.com) The…

  • Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich

    Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich

    A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself… But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to each other.” (537) (Peter) Sloterdijk ends here in a fashion…

  • Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

    Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing

    I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control and the fate of Millennials. Somewhere in there you would…

  • Struggle Falling Away: Love

    “Here it is–right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.”  Huangbo, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po “Meditation is very simple. It means to surrender the mind, the body, and the world, from moment to moment, to the silent presence in which they appear. That’s all.” – Francis…

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”  ― Jiddu Krishnamurti You…

  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by anthropologist & author David Graeber. My buddy-friend-guy, Christopher P., has…

  • Love is not a duty or trade

    “Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are…