Existenz

  • Revisiting the Loving Struggle

    Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.” Continue reading

    Revisiting the Loving Struggle
  • Some More on Loving Struggle

    After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I sat down with my… Continue reading

    Some More on Loving Struggle
  • Playfulness: the Point of Existence

    “A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that… Continue reading

    Playfulness: the Point of Existence
  • Editing Your Life’s Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News : NPR

    Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person\’s own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process \”story editing.\” And he says small tweaks in the interpretation of life events can reap huge benefits.… Continue reading

    Editing Your Life’s Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News : NPR
  • 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… Continue reading

    Daodejing 7
  • Edvard Munch – On Screen

    Edvard Munch (Norwegian: [ˈɛdvɑʈ muŋk]  ( listen); 1863–1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th… Continue reading

    Edvard Munch – On Screen
  • Daodejing 40

    #40* The motion of DAO: returning. The usage of DAO: weakening. 10,000 things grow by having. [1] Having generates from not-having . [2] *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. [1] Having –> 有 [Yǒu]: to have, to exist. We might put here… Continue reading

    Daodejing 40
  • 523325

    There is but a whisper of truth in facts Only a rumor of wisdom in philosophies. Trace a falling teardrop Dance in a gentle breeze Roll on the ground Dream beneath the sky Live and believe and love… Living and… Continue reading

    523325
  • Whatever, Etc. 00024

    Related Articles: Whatever, Etc. 00021: The Loving Struggle 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00022: The Loving Struggle 2 (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 00023: The Loving Struggle 3 (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00024
  • Whatever, Etc. 00023

    If you have a spare 25 minutes, I continue forward with thinking about the Loving Struggle. The text that I quote at length in this talk: I cannot accomplish this communicative struggle by the rational force of argument, but neither can… Continue reading

    Whatever, Etc. 00023
  • 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… Continue reading

    R.I.P. 26 February 1969: Death of Philosopher Karl Jaspers
  • Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Short documentary about Paulo Freire. Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses: Political Clarity, Courage and Humility Directed and Produced by Dr. Shirley Steinberg,… See on www.youtube.com Related articles Jeopardized and Jeopardizing (keithwaynebrown.com) Paulo Freire (sourcewatch.org) Leading… Continue reading

    Seeing Through Paulo’s Glasses
  • 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… Continue reading

    Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing
  • Intersecting Wisdom

    “Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning – I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to… Continue reading

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self
  • Don’t Look Down!

    The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you… Continue reading