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Fri, September 26, 2014

Ubuntu

According to Michael Onyebuchi Eze, the core of ubuntu can best be summarized as follows:

“A person is a person through other people” strikes an affirmation of oneâs humanity through recognition of an “other” in his or her uniqueness and difference.

It is a demand for a creative intersubjective formation in which the “other” becomes a mirror (but only a mirror) for my subjectivity.

This idealism suggests to us that humanity is not embedded in my person solely as an individual; my humanity is co-substantively bestowed upon the other and me.

Humanity is a quality we owe to each other. We create each other and need to sustain this otherness creation.

And if we belong to each other, we participate in our creations: we are because you are, and since you are, definitely I am.

The “I am” is not a rigid subject, but a dynamic self-constitution dependent on this otherness creation of relation and distance”.

(ubuntu philosophy) (nelson mandela) (paradise or oblivion)

Labels: compassion, gift, humanity, humility, love, peace, philosophy

Mon, August 18, 2014

again

Labels: earth, human, perception, perspective, philosophy, spirituality, time

Mon, August 4, 2014

i say yes !

Labels: art, children, choice, earth, Life, now, perception, perspective, philosophy, women

Sun, August 3, 2014

thoughts from within

Labels: big brother, corporations, corruption, perception, perspective, philosophy

Wed, July 30, 2014

good people

Labels: altruism, deviant, evil, good, humanity, perception, perspective, philosophy, truth

Wed, July 9, 2014

my religion

“My religion

is very simple.

My religion is kindness.”

H. H. the 14th Dalai Lama

Labels: buddhism, dalai lama, kindness, love, peace, perspective, philosophy, religion

Fri, June 27, 2014

Know Thyself

Labels: awake, awakening, awareness, enlightenment, philosophy, self

Fri, June 27, 2014

the struggle itself

sisyphus

Labels: action, compassion, eyes, human condition, perspective, philosophy, time

Wed, June 18, 2014

A to Zen

Labels: buddhism, peace, philosophy, zen

Sat, June 14, 2014

A Samuraiâs Creed

A Samuraiâs Creed
Anonymous, Circa 1300

I have no parents;

I make the heaven and earth my mother and father.

I have no home;

I make awareness my dwelling.

I have no life and death;

I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine power;

I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means;

I make understanding my means.

I have no magic secrets;

I make character my magic secret.

I have no body;

I make endurance my body.

I have no eyes;

I make the flash of lightning my eyes.

I have no ears;

I make sensibility my ears.

I have no limbs;

I make promptness my limbs.

I have no strategy;

I make âunshadowed by thoughtâ my strategy

I have no designs;

I make âseizing opportunity by the forelockâ my design.

I have no miracles;

I make right action my miracle.

I have no principles;

I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.

I have no tactics;

I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talents;

I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends;

I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy;

I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor;

I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle;

I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword;

I make absence of self my sword.

Labels: action, enlightenment, experience, karma, perspective, philosophy

Fri, June 6, 2014

Rest in natural great peace

This exhausted mind

Beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thoughts

Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves

In the infinite ocean of samsara

Rest in natural great peace

rest