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[size=200]Zazen, all the time.[/size]
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[size=200]If that’s not enough words,
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I like intense thought as well… not just relaxed. Why single these different aspects of thought out for favor of one or the other?
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[size=112]I think there needs to be tension.
Tension often serves to distill the liquidity of a living, vibrant, useful philosophical perception.[/size]
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If those silly pictures truly are philosophy, you must be able to conclude something from them. The problem is that each person has it’s individual interpetation, and therefore a picture in itself has little value, but needs guidance to explain it’s intend.
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If you think words allow us to understand each other, in a philosophical way, I think you will have a wider perspective awaiting for you in the future.
Images and nonverbal cues are the most effective form of communicating.
As far as conveying information NOTHING beats computer language.
The written word is excellent for relaying facts & figures.
Understanding is a bird of a different color.
I think philosophy, rightfully, stands in the middle somewhere and that is why I engage both sides of the brain, if you will, with most of my posts.
As an example, feel the following images[/size]:
[size=112]These images convey feeling. Like all images, they touch something inside us.
They don’t necessarily convey information but they are effective forms of communication.
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Back in the '80 there was a case where a boy would claim the snow of the TV would carry hidden messages.
Let’s just take the communism, some will think it’s good some, think it’s utterly bad, it’s all subjective and can beinterpeted in millions of ways, same with the rest of the pictures.
People from middle east may not know the meaning of the american political symbols, therefore has no philosophical value to them, therefore such pictures may have meaning or no meaning dependand on the beholder.
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[size=112]You do realize that each of these letters are an image right?
These letters are symbols that you and everyone else that reads this post interprets based upon their philosophical understanding.
Therefore such symbols that create these words may have meaning or no meaning dependand on the beholder.[/size]
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Philosophy - to look at something common in an uncommon way.
Philosophy survives.[/size]
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Philosophy needs to be now.
These words are not philosophy.
Physical tension. Zazen.
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