Of the many linx to informative sites featured along the right margin of this 'ere 'blog, I've (unintentionally) rarely referred y'all to a site which I knew was also a 'blog...
Recently happen'd 'pon a great one, tho', and y'all should take a look-see:
seekeraftertruth.com
or in the first section of linx at right.
Even if the day's entry doesn't light yer boat, y'can lookie-see thru that 'blog's excellent collection of linx on all kindsa subj's related to SeekingAfterTruth-- what other Subj. is there...?
Howl!
-ZMD
PS To start ya out, here's yet-another great passage by K. on the subj. of SeekingAfterTruth in SeekerAfterTruth.com's archives:
http://seekeraftertruth.com/?p=60
InJoy!
-ZMD
(howl)
Monday, July 17, 2006
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Saturday, July 15, 2006
"Have you noticed, in newspapers and magazines, the amount of space given to politics, to the sayings of politicians and their activities? Of course, other news is given, but political news predominates; the economic and political life has become all-important. The outward circumstances — comfort, money, position and power –seem to dominate and shape our existence. The external show — the title, the garb, the salute, the flag — has become increasingly significant, and the total process of life has been forgotten or deliberately set aside. It is so much easier to throw oneself into social and political activity than to understand life as a whole; to be associated with any organized thought, with political or religious activity, offers a respectable escape from the pettiness and drudgery of everyday life. With a small heart you can talk of big things and of the popular leaders; you can hide your shallowness with the easy phrases of world affairs; your restless mind can happily and with popular encouragement settle down to propagate the ideology of a new or of an old religion.
Politics is the reconciliation of effects; and as most of us are concerned with effects, the external has assumed dominant significance. By manipulating effects we hope to bring about order and peace; but, unfortunately, it is not as simple as all that. Life is a total process, the inner as well as the outer; the outer definitely affects the inner, but the inner invariably overcomes the outer. What you are, you bring about outwardly. The outer and the inner cannot be separated and kept in watertight compartments, for they are constantly interacting upon each other; but the inner craving, the hidden pursuits and motives, are always more powerful. Life is not dependent upon political or economic activity; life is not a mere outward show, any more than a tree is the leaf or the branch. Life is a total process whose beauty is to be discovered only in its integration. This integration does not take place on the superficial level of political and economic reconciliations; it is to be found beyond causes and effects.
Because we play with causes and effects and never go beyond them, except verbally, our lives are empty, without much significance. It is for this reason that we have become slaves to political excitement and to religious sentimentalism. There is hope only in the integration of the several processes of which we are made up. This integration does not come into being through any ideology, or through following any particular authority, religious or political; it comes into being only through extensive and deep awareness. This awareness must go into the deeper layers of consciousness and not be content with surface responses."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti "On News and Politics" found at http://seekeraftertruth.com/?p=266
Howl!
-ZMD
Politics is the reconciliation of effects; and as most of us are concerned with effects, the external has assumed dominant significance. By manipulating effects we hope to bring about order and peace; but, unfortunately, it is not as simple as all that. Life is a total process, the inner as well as the outer; the outer definitely affects the inner, but the inner invariably overcomes the outer. What you are, you bring about outwardly. The outer and the inner cannot be separated and kept in watertight compartments, for they are constantly interacting upon each other; but the inner craving, the hidden pursuits and motives, are always more powerful. Life is not dependent upon political or economic activity; life is not a mere outward show, any more than a tree is the leaf or the branch. Life is a total process whose beauty is to be discovered only in its integration. This integration does not take place on the superficial level of political and economic reconciliations; it is to be found beyond causes and effects.
Because we play with causes and effects and never go beyond them, except verbally, our lives are empty, without much significance. It is for this reason that we have become slaves to political excitement and to religious sentimentalism. There is hope only in the integration of the several processes of which we are made up. This integration does not come into being through any ideology, or through following any particular authority, religious or political; it comes into being only through extensive and deep awareness. This awareness must go into the deeper layers of consciousness and not be content with surface responses."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti "On News and Politics" found at http://seekeraftertruth.com/?p=266
Howl!
-ZMD
Friday, July 14, 2006
Fresh Linx, as good azzit gets:
Gandhi on education:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-gand.htm
Krishnamurti on education:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-krish.htm
Thoreau on education:
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/criticism/hdt-edu-mb.html
or the last 3 linx in Section VII.
InJoy!
Howl!
ZMD
Gandhi on education:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-gand.htm
Krishnamurti on education:
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-krish.htm
Thoreau on education:
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/criticism/hdt-edu-mb.html
or the last 3 linx in Section VII.
InJoy!
Howl!
ZMD
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Aldo Leopold...
Important voice in the history of U.S. wilderness preservation, the land ethic, humans' humble role and insignificance as only a participant-- a small part-- of the larger ecosystem(s) in which humans exist, yet we frequently wreak terrific havoc and destructiveness upon it, through greed and/or ignorance.
Aldo Leopold challenged the ignorance-- effectively, passionately, tranformatively.
New link, section IV, or by cut'n pasting:
http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/chrisj/leopold-quotes.html
And to read Leopold's "The Land Ethic" (go ahead, it's good and Very Important), check out:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tipiglen/landethic.html
or the "Leopold Land Ethic" link after the above in the linx at right. Enjoy inJoy.
Howl!
-ZMD
Important voice in the history of U.S. wilderness preservation, the land ethic, humans' humble role and insignificance as only a participant-- a small part-- of the larger ecosystem(s) in which humans exist, yet we frequently wreak terrific havoc and destructiveness upon it, through greed and/or ignorance.
Aldo Leopold challenged the ignorance-- effectively, passionately, tranformatively.
New link, section IV, or by cut'n pasting:
http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/chrisj/leopold-quotes.html
And to read Leopold's "The Land Ethic" (go ahead, it's good and Very Important), check out:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tipiglen/landethic.html
or the "Leopold Land Ethic" link after the above in the linx at right. Enjoy inJoy.
Howl!
-ZMD
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