第303页 Examined Life
Welfare (悬壶济世,经世济民)
- 章节名:Examined Life
- 页码:第303页
Chp4 Creativity Cite " Bring together two previously separate frameworks to produce a new and surprising combination. One is working within one structure or framework, another is brought to bear and produces a rearrangement of the previous materials that suggests new connections and questions... Making new frame requires not just daring and alertness but an immersion within, patiently allowing a new structure to emerge, without forcing it prematurely into a more obvious form." pp42-43 Chp12 Being More Real Cite " In thoughtful walks in the woods, contemplating the ocean, meditation, or intimate conversation with a friend, deeper parts of oneself are brought into awareness and integrated with the rest, producing a greater serenity of self, a sense of a more substantial self. This increase in awareness of integration of previously isolated parts enables one to act with more power and a wider band of intense focus, and thus to feel more real. " pp131-132 Chp14 Stances Cite " The broadest version of the combined stance generalizes the previous formula to now encompass all people and their relations t portions of reality...The whole it nurtures is our-relating-to-reality. " pp160 Chp15 Value and Meaning Cite" Search for a unified field theory to provide one explanation of the major forces of nature." pp164 " To seek to give life meaning is to seek to transcend the limits of one's individual life... Yet for each such larger aim we can notice the limits. Even when we consider the universe as a whole, we can see it is limits. Thus, some people wonder how anything about human existence can have meaning if eventually, millions of years from now, it all will end in some massive heat death of the galaxy or universe. About any given thing, however wide, it seems we can stand back and ask what its meaning is. To find a meaning for it, then we seem driven to find a link with yet another thing beyond its boundaries, i.e., value... Meaning can be gained by linking with something of value...The greater the link, the closer, the more forceful, the more intense and extensive it is, the greater the meaning gotten. " pp167-168 Chp16 Importance and Weight Cite "Depth is a quality we prize. Whether in a work of art, an emotion, a scientific theory, a mathematical theorem, a person, or a mode of understanding, the deeper, the better. People on a spiritual path seek to connect with the very deepest reality. Shallowness and superficiality are not in general desirable qualities. " pp180 Chp17 The Matrix of Reality Figures 2-6 pp193197 Chp18 Darkness and Light Cite "The third layer is the ethic of caring. The attitude of caring can range from caring and concern to tenderness to deeper compassion to love. A further layer is the ethic of Light, its entries are truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness. To be vehicle of light is to be its impersonal vehicle. Such a vehicle of light will bring to it his or her central focus of alertness and openness, noticing exemplifications or instances of truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, nurturing them, allowing them full latitude to do their transforming work, and then acting with spontaneity. The way truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness act through and transform you becomes YOUR way of light -- become a vessel of light, an inner light. " pp213-215 Chp21 Enlightenment Cite "To the question of what is the very highest goal of human existence, Eastern traditions reply that it is enlightenment...A wise person would be open to learning new things without being overly credulous. He would pay careful attention to new and surprising possibilities, explore them tentatively, experiment. If a possibility offers some confirmations along the way --whether illuminating and powerful experiences, desirable personal transformations, or encounters with impressive others who have pursued that same possibility further -- he will continue more confidently, yet still with some caution...sometimes daringly but still with tentativeness, doing best to avoid error in either direction (type1, and 2 errors) " pp243,252 Chp23 What is Wisdom a whole list of characteristics of wisdom on pp269 Cite " Balanced wisdom does not prevent the partial enthusiams and great ambitions of the youth...Wisdom need not be geriatric." pp278 Chp24 The Idea and the Actual Interesting reflections on both sides of "capitalist, communist and nationalism ideals " pp280-281 "-isms often are described as having been vulgarized...They should have taken significant precautions against distortion and misuse of their views..Since wide-scale distortions get based upon secondary descriptions, there is one precaution I can take : to ask that no reader summarize this book's contents (-- okay, that's why I cite this time) or present slogans or catchwords from it, no school give examinations on the material it contains. The trickled-down philosophy is not worth following. " (well, we know what you are referring to.) pp284-285 Chp26 Philosophy's Life Cite "It calms the spirit to see ourselves as part of a vast and continuing natural process. To see yourself as a small part of a vast process makes your own death seem not so very significant, unworrisome even. When we identify ourselves with the TOTALITY OF THE VAST NEVER-ENDING PROCESS OF EXISTENCE THROUGH TIME, we can find our significance in (being part of) that, and our own particular PASSING comes to seem to us of PASSING importance... We then want nothing other than to live in a spiral of activities and enhance others' doing so, deepening our own reality as we come into contact and relation with the rest, exploring the dimensions of reality, embodying them in ourselves, creating, responding to the full range of the reality we can discern with the fullest reality we possess, becoming a vehicle for truth, beauty, goodness, and holiness, adding our own characteristic bit to reality's ETERNAL PROCESS. And that wanting of nothing else, along with its attendant emotion, is what constitutes happiness. " pp301-302. Ending " When we reach from youth to adulthood by becoming the parent of our parents, and we reach maturity by finding a fit substitute for parent's love, then by becoming our ideal parent ourselves, finally the circle is closed and we reach (biological/reproductional) completeness." pp303
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