Forget the self
Friday, March 31st, 2006To study dance is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
A Zen based proverb
To study dance is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
A Zen based proverb
One must want nothing to be different — not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not only bear what is necessary, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The modern self cannot be fully or properly appreciated without its burried life, its ancient grounding, its formation through inherited ideas and images.
Simon Goldhill
People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Completely true to nature!’ – what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernhard Shaw
A diagram is a picture, in which one is intended to perform inference about the thing pictured, by mentally following around the parts of the diagram.
James Franklin
An example for a dissipative system is deadbeat oscillation or live.
Wikipedia about Dissipation
I would be in favor of a use of media technology that gives it a chance to awaken us from an anthropocentric sleep, and to surprise us in a way that is totally intelligible and totally incommensurable at the same time.
Claus Pias
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche