(1) The way of great learning consists in manifesting one's bright virtue, consists in loving the people, consists in stopping in perfect goodness.
(2)
When you know where to stop, you have stability.
When you have stability, you can be tranquil.
When you are tranquil, you can be at ease.
When you are at ease, you can deliberate.
When you can deliberate you can attain your aims.
(3)
Things have their roots and branches, affairs have their end and beginning. When you know what comes first and what comes last, then you are near the Way.
(4)
The ancients who wanted to manifest their bright virtue to all in the world first governed well their own states.
Wanting to govern well their states, they first harmonized their own clans.
Wanting to harmonize their own clan, they first cultivated themselves.
Wanting to cultivate themselves, they first corrected their minds.
Wanting to correct their minds, they first made their wills sincere.
Wanting to make their wills sincere, they first extended their knowledge.
Extension of knowledge consists of the investigation of things.
(5)
When things are investigated, knowledge is extended.
When knowledge is extended, the will becomes sincere.
When the will is sincere, the mind is correct.
When the mind is correct, the self is cultivated.
When the self is cultivated, the clan is harmonized.
When the clan is harmonized, the country is well governed.
When the country is well governed, there will be peace throughout the land.
(6)
From the king down to the common people, all must regard the cultivation of the self as the most essential thing.
(7)
It is impossible to have a situation wherein the essentials are in disorder, and the externals are well-managed. You simply cannot take the essential things as superficial, and the superficial things as essential. This is called, “Knowing the root.” This is called “The extension of knowledge.”
(Translation from traditional Chinese by A. Charles Muller: http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/greatlearning.html)
Friday, February 14, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Kogi - Message from the elder brother
The KOGI - descendants of the pre-Colombian civilization of the Tairona - are a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast.
The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could exist.
In 1990 they emerged to work with Alan Ereira, making the 90-minute documentary "From the Heart of the World" for BBC1 in which they dramatically warned of our need to change course. Then they withdrew again.
This documentary led to a complete transformation of the Colombian attitude to these people. Today, each new Colombian President has to visit the mountain and seek their blessing. But now the Kogi have summoned Alan Ereira back to say that we did not actually listen to what they said. We are incapable of being changed by being spoken to. They now understand that we learn through our eyes, not our ears. In the face of the approaching apocalypse, they have asked Ereira to make a film with them which will take the audience on a perilous journey into the mysteries of their sacred places to change our understanding of reality. The new film ALUNA is not a work of fiction. ARE YOU READY TO BE CHANGED?
The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could exist.
In 1990 they emerged to work with Alan Ereira, making the 90-minute documentary "From the Heart of the World" for BBC1 in which they dramatically warned of our need to change course. Then they withdrew again.
This documentary led to a complete transformation of the Colombian attitude to these people. Today, each new Colombian President has to visit the mountain and seek their blessing. But now the Kogi have summoned Alan Ereira back to say that we did not actually listen to what they said. We are incapable of being changed by being spoken to. They now understand that we learn through our eyes, not our ears. In the face of the approaching apocalypse, they have asked Ereira to make a film with them which will take the audience on a perilous journey into the mysteries of their sacred places to change our understanding of reality. The new film ALUNA is not a work of fiction. ARE YOU READY TO BE CHANGED?
Sunday, February 2, 2014
If the doors of perception were cleansed...
If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up,
til he sees all things thro' narrows chinks of his cavern.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Du bist Luft für mich...
Du bist Luft für mich…
die Luft, die ich zum Atmen brauche und
die Luft, die mich trägt, wenn ich in ungeahnte Höhen fliege.
(Liebeserklärung an Nici)
die Luft, die ich zum Atmen brauche und
die Luft, die mich trägt, wenn ich in ungeahnte Höhen fliege.
(Liebeserklärung an Nici)
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Difference between intuition and intellect
The difference between intuition and intellect is, that intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.
(SRI AUROBINDO, The Hidden Forces of Life, p. 4)
(SRI AUROBINDO, The Hidden Forces of Life, p. 4)
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