The YIN MIND _______________________________________________________________________________ Contentment and Hope The Past and The Future [transcription of a meditation session] What is a state of mind or consciousness? If we understand the question, by means of subjective reference or reflection, which is the very capacity of consciousness, how consciousness situates at the point of tension between stasis and flow, we can see how our posture of consciousness affects the … [Read more...]
Contentment and Hope / The Past and The Future
Can an Idea Exist Without a Mind ?
Can an Idea Exist Without a Mind? To question: "Can an idea exist without a mind?" not only probes the definition of an idea, but the nature of a mind. Is an idea the product of language? Is representation required to think? Is memory a representational map of our experience? If the computer is empowered with a robot, so that it can do something about the programmes it contains and uses to process data, is it like us? What about values? What about significance? What about meaning? … [Read more...]
Betrayal of Trust
Betrayal of Trust This subject was nominated by a friend. This friend suggested the use of capital punishment for Betrayal of Trust. Another friend queried whether betrayal of trust was possible. Here, now, I question, what is the nature of the trust? Is it trust in another's intent, their ability or performance, or perhaps their representation. I commented at the time the subject was nominated, "Trust is not offered in response to trustworthiness, but because trust works". I … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND: ‘Beyond Christianity, Religiosity and Academia . . . to Spirituality’
The YIN MIND ___________________________________________ The Vatican has a vast and an ancient library. There is only one person who can remove a book from that library: The Pope. One such Pope, Pope Leo X (1513 – 1521) said: “How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us.” There is a book, The Lost Wisdom of the Ancient Masters by Professor Hilton Hotema. Professor Hotema said: … [Read more...]
EVE REVERE: The YIN MIND – ‘To Know or To Fail To Know’
The YIN MIND ___________________________________ All knowing, all knowledge, constitutes a gradient of aboutness. In every kind and in every degree of knowing, there are some characteristics, some properties, some details, we ignore, we neglect, we fail to take into account. Our nouns, our names for things, do not invoke the same references in any two users of these terms. What do we communicate? What can we communicate? All knowing, all … [Read more...]
ELIZABETH MAY ~ Female Party Leader Excluded From Debates
Where is our basic Freedom of Speech, why the exclusion? Is there a hidden agenda here? Just yesterda, I read that Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader Canada was excluded from the televised debates that will take place. May is understandably in shock. "News that I will not be allowed to participate in the debates. In shock at the moment. I will be in those debates," May wrote on Twitter. Marco Dubé, a spokesman for the broadcast consortium that hosts the debates, confirmed the … [Read more...]