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Eastern "Wisdom"
#22013985 - 07/29/15 09:30 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” ~Yogi Bhajan
Wow! That changed my life. A good tautology is good!
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Yeah, once you cross eastern europe everything pretty much goes down hill from there.
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: Kurt]
#22014577 - 07/29/15 11:43 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Okay...
If some guy at my local American university here in the US said consciousness corresponded to an isolated proposition, and that proposition would be that "consciousness" is found in an experience of a specific color red, what would this mean?
I would assume the meaning of that statement would be implied; that it mainly indicates you don't necessarily experience the universe the way I do, specifically in the experience of the color red. The meaning of the statement, as implied would be that consciousness as a whole is potentially composed somehow of such a specific quality, somehow based on that.
Would this proposition of the reality of consciousness, based on the philosopher of mind's qualia be useful in isolation? Do I look for the color red? If someone from a different part of the world said that these guys over in this part of the world say conscious experience is of the color red, (or the smell of burnt almonds or whatever) without taking into consideration some other qualifying propositions or context, what kind of silly mysted-over eyes would they think we have?
It seems like if thoughtfulness is found in such statements, they are found both in a peculiarity and in a context of appropriate qualifying statements, some kind of practical whole context.
Maybe this doesn't have to be based on a background of specifically theoretical propositions at all, or what might seem to necessarily be a certain kind of mental preoccupation. Even we can see how isolated and contained the relavence of our idea of the color red is, compared to what it is supposed to convey in conscious experience. It seems to be a particularly distinct "focus" that happens to come down in our culture to a proposition. If you are looking for an ideally intelligible proposition and conjecture on the existence of consciousness, you can look to qualia. But turn it around, and what does this idea of the experience of the color red stand for in practice, as an actual focus of consciousness? Is it anything, or is it just such an idea that is theoretically arrived at?
Well anyway, another one for the books Orgone...
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#22014630 - 07/29/15 11:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree that lots of eastern 'wisdom' is rubbish, but I don't know if I'd agree that this quote specifically is a tautology.
It is of course, possible to know how powerful you are, yet still not be very powerful, it is possible to know exactly how powerless you are, meaning that the statement is not circular. I think Yogi Bhajan is trying to claim that as you recognize what power you have, you become more powerful. A recognition of some powers is necessary in order to use said powers. He might be referring to the power of focus, or certain abilities to do with consciousness, who knows. There may also be some deeper principles at work with this quote, but I don't really know for sure, and I don't even know if this particular quote is even wise, or just a silly deepity. I just merely wanted to point out that it isn't a tautology, and that just because we might not be able to extract the wisdom, doesn't mean that the wisdom isn't there to begin with.
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Even if not a tautology, it might mean this, it might mean that 
So it is a blank sheet upon which you write your own meaning? That is not wisdom.
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Vague blanket statements open to interpretation are always packed full of wisdom OC!
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OrgoneConclusion said: Even if not a tautology, it might mean this, it might mean that 
So it is a blank sheet upon which you write your own meaning? That is not wisdom.
Of course contingency of possible meaning is compared to tautology in general. You'd have to consider the idea in context to actually consider what it means.
Suppose we just observed the way these ideas are framed by insecurities, and reactive impressions and caricatures of gimme-five "bro" culture, by comparison so far.
Can a single statement of some guy pulled out of the air by resentment, and out of context, very well represent another person's thought, or let alone or "eastern" thought in general? Isn't there a pretty good reason to be skeptical of that kind of platitude to begin with?
Contingency: start where you are at, and say what you are going to say in this world. Upon that, there are great eastern and western thinkers who have expressed the same thing in quietism: Don't just react to impressions and derivatives. Once you get that down you can possibly see things in more than one dimension.
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OrgoneConclusion said: Even if not a tautology, it might mean this, it might mean that 
So it is a blank sheet upon which you write your own meaning? That is not wisdom.
Maybe wisdom like this is supposed to be the idea that a person needs to weigh things and decide for themselves what they are or should do etc. As opposed to having someone else give them advice to sway them one way or the other. After all, even the wisest people are not always right. And often they could make no better decision than someone else on a certain matter.
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OrgoneConclusion said: A good tautology is good! 
What if I don't know how good it is?
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OrgoneConclusion said: “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” ~Yogi Bhajan
Wow! That changed my life. A good tautology is good! 
Tautology? Maybe. I first saw a contradiction. What if I am powerful and I don't know? Then I cannot be powerful.
So to be powerful necessarily means you must know you are powerful. In fact, the power is completely impotent without the knowledge. Sounds like some more wisdom from one of my heroes; "The most valuable commodity I know of is information." -Gordon Gekko
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: DieCommie]
#22017848 - 07/29/15 11:22 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Don't you think that "necessity" in there is a little self contrived? He could have meant that knowledge is a sufficient condition for power.
But that would be presuming any of this makes any sense.
Well this much is clear to me commie. If you were to step out in nature, information would be like a guide book you consult. If you have ever been there, you know it's handy at best. Is "information" your resourcefulness when a cougar growls at you?
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: Kurt]
#22018357 - 07/30/15 04:52 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Perhaps it would be a more accurate statement if we replaced 'information' with 'understanding' or 'logical clarity'. What do you think?
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Have you ever heard a cougar growl second order? It is like something deep coming up, through and out.
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The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. W.W.
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: Kurt]
#22018636 - 07/30/15 07:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Have you ever heard a cougar growl second order? It is like something deep coming up, through and out.
I dunno about you, but I don't mind older chicks.
HA, but in all seriousness, understanding what a cougar's motives are (food usually) can help you get away unharmed. Evolutionarily speaking, if a cougar has to expend a lot of energy for just one piece of food, with the added risk of being hurt due to overt aggressiveness on the part of the 'prey', it is not a wise decision to continue to pursue said prey. Appear large, make loud noises, throw things, and you will likely scare it away.
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Paha "Loud noises!" - Stephen Carrell
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: Kurt]
#22018681 - 07/30/15 07:57 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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(White guy in a suit.)
Btw I wasn't intending to be oblique. Straight forward, I just think some things are instinctual and When he says there is not really a "translation" of that. What you have in you.
I don't know about the kinds of cougars you're talking about. My girlfriend is a Leo though, so she scares em away for me. 
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Re: Eastern "Wisdom" [Re: Kurt]
#22019779 - 07/30/15 01:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's reads like a proverb..I am pretty sure there are reiterations of the same concept throughout many cultures.
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