Dialectic
Jun 23rd, 2004, 01:22 AM
What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are as old as the rocks. For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man - or woman - sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying of the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours?
-- Erwin Schrodinger
Ultimately, the 44s want EVERYONE, guy or girl (and everything in between), Asian or non-Asian (and everything in between), to be able to answer that question as deeply and completely as (s)he can.
But to understand what he's even asking, to see what people like Schrodinger, Mother Theresa, Nagarjuna, Dogen, Lao Tzu, Plotinus, Emerson, and countless others saw, well, it's going to take some work.
We're going to have to do our best to kick shit up, jolt some people awake, repair some of the damage to our own souls, and maybe even bring a smile to a face or two.
So let's get going.
-- Erwin Schrodinger
Ultimately, the 44s want EVERYONE, guy or girl (and everything in between), Asian or non-Asian (and everything in between), to be able to answer that question as deeply and completely as (s)he can.
But to understand what he's even asking, to see what people like Schrodinger, Mother Theresa, Nagarjuna, Dogen, Lao Tzu, Plotinus, Emerson, and countless others saw, well, it's going to take some work.
We're going to have to do our best to kick shit up, jolt some people awake, repair some of the damage to our own souls, and maybe even bring a smile to a face or two.
So let's get going.