Zwischenwelten: Sep 4, 2015

Friday, September 4, 2015

September Song - Lou Reed - "Lost In The Stars" The Music Of Kurt Weill -

also re-found in a friend's post, and of course, i like it

though October is not bad too :-)

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety ,Alan Watts

on ..presence..

it belongs to us being humans , we remember, we wish, we feel longing and desire...we hope.

persistence can be a virtue when born out of and carried through presence and not spoiling it.
the experience of presence is all we have now and forever.

but all this is true and excellently, clearly said here

Alan Watts...

found in a friend's post

"The notion of a separate thinker, of an “I” distinct from the experience, comes from memory and from the rapidity with which thought changes. It is like whirling a burning stick to give the illusion of a continuous circle of fire. If you imagine that memory is a direct knowledge of the past rather than a present experience, you get the illusion of knowing the past and the present at the same time. This suggests that there is something in you distinct from both the past and the present experiences. You reason, “I know this present experience, and it is different from that past experience. If I can compare the two, and notice that experience has changed, I must be something constant and apart.”

But, as a matter of fact, you cannot compare this present experience with a past experience. You can only compare it with a memory of the past, which is a part of the present experience. When you see clearly that memory is a form of present experience, it will be obvious that trying to separate yourself from this experience is as impossible as trying to make your teeth bite themselves."

"The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the “I” out of the experience. We pretend that we are amoebas, and try to protect ourselves from life by splitting in two. Sanity, wholeness, and integration lie in the realization that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate “I” or mind can be found.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening."

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/?utm_content=buffer50ef7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307741206/braipick00-21