What......
Even the greatest of the enemy
Does not do is.........
Twist the words spoken by Thee.....
Though one may not like the words
That are spoken and even refute
But to replace the word with lies or twist
Is dishonor even to.....
A worthy enemy.
The laws of movement and of
rest deduced from
this principle being precisely
the same as those observed in nature,
we can admire the application of it
to all phenomena.
The movement of animals,
the vegetative growth of plants are
only its consequences; and
the spectacle of the universe becomes
so much the grander,
so much more beautiful,
the worthier of its Author,
when one knows that
a small number of laws,
most wisely established,
suffice for all movements.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is
not the convinced Nazi… or
the convinced Communist,
but people for whom the distinction
between fact and fiction
(i.e., the reality of experience) and
the distinction between true and false
(i.e., the standards of thought)
no longer exist.
-- Hannah Arendt. (1906–1975)
The first requisite of civilization is
That of justice.
--Sigmund Freud.
They blame those
who remain silent,
they blame those
who speak much,
they blame those
who speak in moderation.
There is none in the world
who is not blamed.
-- Gautama Budha.
What you think yours is
Not yours....
It is just a Tik Tock of
Reality breathing in and out
Be aware and let go......
So that your heart remains
Untarnished.
To give way to and
To have a sense of reality
Determinism works and operates
With in a framework of
Time......
Where all time and
Its constructs........
Which apparently give us
A sense of reality are
Subject to change and entropy
Where-as in the totality of
Annihilation and
Ending of time
For oneself (death) and
The world to be.........
Everything is
Null and void....... and
Only dharma........
The essence of all living
That which gives justice is
The only unchanging reality
Where life.........
In its creation and
Continuity becomes
A possibility.
What is the appropriate behavior
for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to
his piece of debris?
What’s the proper salutation
between people as they pass
each other in this flood?
* * * * *
Let none find fault with others;
let none see the omissions and
commissions of others.
But let one see one’s own acts,
done and undone.
-- Gautama Budha.
It is a man’s own mind,
not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
-- Gautama Budha.
In the sky,
there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions
out of their own minds and
then believe them to be true.
-- Gautama Budha.
Real learning comes about
When the competitive spirit
has ceased.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
It is a great importance to set
A resolution, not to be shaken,
never to tell an untruth.
There is no vice so mean, so pitiful,
If we can really understand the problem,
The answer will come out of it,
Because the answer is not separate from
The problem.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Thought is so cunning
So clever.........
That it distorts everything for
Its own convenience.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Every time
The world fails
To question a Lie
It looses
A part of.....
Its humanity.
One can not add
Anything more to
Meaningless......
It does not add up.
The humiliating difference between
Laymen and Clergymen must disappear, and
Equality spring from true liberty.
--- Immanuel Kant.
All our mortal lives are set
in danger and perplexity:
Without man and his potential
for moral progress,
the whole of reality would be
a mere wilderness,
a thing in vain, and
have no final purpose.
--- Immanuel Kant.
{Unlike hatred.....}
Love transcends
Every obstacle and
Even cleanses........
The self and
Blemishes One carries.
All false art, all vain wisdom,
lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and
Its highest culture is also......
The epoch of its decay.
--- Immanuel Kant.
There is something splendid about innocence;
but what is bad about it, in turn, is that
it cannot protect itself very well and
is easily seduced.
--- Immanuel Kant.
For peace to reign on Earth,
humans must evolve into new beings
who have learned to see the whole first.
---- Immanuel Kant.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity,
No straight thing was ever made.
--- Immanuel Kant.
Freedom and love go together.
Love is not a reaction.
If I love you because you love me,
that is mere trade,
A thing to be bought in the market;
It is not love.
To love is not to ask anything in return,
not even to feel that
you are giving something- and
It is only such love.....
that can know freedom.
― J. Krishnamurti.
I think in fact that unless
there is an organic link
between the subjective impressions of
the author and his objective
representation of reality,
he will not achieve...
even superficial credibility,
let alone authenticity and
inner truth.
--Andrei Tarkovsky.
Art must carry man’s craving for the ideal,
must be an expression of
his reaching out towards it;
that art must give man hope and faith.
And the more hopeless
the world in the artist’s version,
the more clearly perhaps must we see
the ideal that stands in opposition –
otherwise life becomes impossible!
Art symbolizes........
the meaning of our existence.
--Andrei Tarkovsky.
Some sort of pressure must exist;
the artist exists because --
the world is not perfect.
Art would be useless
if the world were perfect,
as man wouldn’t look for harmony
but would simply live in it.
Art is born out of
an ill-designed world.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky.
The lack of courage of
the masses make
terror against
individual groups possible.
--- Peter Graf. Editor.
If the people will lead,
eventually......
To plead for fairness
Towards others is
A responsibility not many are
Capable of shouldering.
The only condition of fighting for
the right to create is
faith in your own vocation,
readiness to serve, and
refusal to compromise.
---Andrei Tarkovsky.
Any process.....Or Action....
That offers some degree of transparency
Openness and accessibility
Would certainly lead to
A fruitful outcome.
* * * * *
Secrecy breeds contempt and
Disbelief.
Submit -- In this, or any other sphere,
Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear:
Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r,
Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
All Nature is but Art,
Unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction,
Which thou canst not see;
All Discord, Harmony, not understood;
All partial Evil, universal Good:
And, spite of Pride,
In erring Reason's spite,
One truth is clear, .......
"Whatever IS, is RIGHT.
--- Alexander Pope in his "Essay on Man"
All knowledge......
By any measure is incomplete and
Creates friction / conflict...
When it operates
With in (any given)....
A dialectical framework.
Each time One / We choose
To do the right action....
One / We have set the history in
Right direction.
It is not meaningful
To aspire to change others....
Which in itself could be a misstep
With out changing oneself.
Evolution is all about finding
More rational and meaningful identities
And being able to redefine and hold
One's humanity.......
In better light.
The interests of the oppressors lie in
When ever we antagonize and
Hate someone / Others
We deem it is alright to do
Anything to hurt them.....
Even when we have lost the sense of
Right and Wrong Or
A semblance of human existence.....
Seldom.... If never
One has gained anything
With hatred.....
Leave alone winning hearts.
History is full of events
Many and
Much too many
To count and recount.....
Yet none counts in
Time that holds
All life in its grip....
As many fall short of
Dharma...
That which is central to
The making of history.
Dehumanization,
To See.....
Morality is a pretense
It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted
No two things can occupy
The same place at the same time
One can choose to do bad and not Or
Even choose to Good.....But
No one it seems to have ridden
These two horses at the same time
Except for may be
The ones.....
That pretend and
Others.....
That are not right in their mind.
In the logical progression of
Actions and thoughts
Everything is...
Self-explanatory
What falls short is
Our....
Discipline
Understanding and
Intelligence.
The rise and fall of political fortunes and
That of rivalries of establishment ideologies
At best are an abstract upheavals and
If not superficial are mostly irrelevant
But to pay a price with humanity
In any manner and to undermine
The values that govern human societies is
A shortcoming in democratic spirit
Even if not an abject fall
Still is unbecoming of
Any given society.
Every failure.....
Systemic or otherwise
Reduces possible solutions
To the point of......
(self) negation /contradictions
Upending......
A/the true potential future.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or
A Christian or A European, or anything else,
You are being violent.
Do you see why it is violent?
Because you are separating yourself from
the rest of mankind.
When you separate yourself by belief,
by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
So a man who is seeking to understand violence
does not belong to any country, to any religion,
to any political party or partial system;
he is concerned with......
the total understanding of mankind.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
The wrongs and evils of this world
Historically are not our making....
But what we have for our times is
The ability to stop continuation of
Such wrongs....
The ability that which is given to
Us collectively and invested in
Each one of us....
Where we can put an end to
Such wrongs being perpetuated Or
Allow ourselves be swept under
The currents of wrong historical forces
In continuation.....
That not only undermine our existence
But make us leave behind
The very misguided foot prints of
Our false inheritance.....
As a legacy and direction for
Our future generations to come
Leaving their lives with the burden of
Another Past......
That is not free from the wrongs and evils of
Yesteryears.
Artistic creation, after all,
is not subject to absolute laws,
valid from age to age;
since it is related to the more general aim of
mastery of the world,
it has an infinite number of facets,
the vincula that connect man
with his vital activity; and
even if the path towards knowledge is unending,
no step that takes man nearer
to a full understanding of
the meaning of his existence can be
too small to count.
---Andrei Tarkovsky.
Do not repeat after my words
that you do not understand.
Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas,
for it will be an illusion and
you will thereby deceive yourself.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti.
It is obvious that art cannot
teach anyone anything,
since in four thousand years
humanity has learnt nothing at all.
We should long ago have become angels
had we been capable of paying attention
to the experience of art, and
allowing ourselves to be changed
in accordance with the ideals
it expresses.
--Andrei Tarkovsky.
The poet has nothing to be proud of.
He is not master of the situation,
but a servant.
Creative work is his only
possible form of existence,
and his every work is like a deed
he has no power to annul.
For him to be aware that the sequence of
such deeds is due and ripe,
that it lies in the very nature of things,
he has to have faith in the idea;
for only faith interlocks the system of images
for which read system of life.
--- Andrei Tarkovsky.
the most dangerous.
Not only are educated people likely
to have more influence,
they are the last people to suspect that
they don't know what they are talking about
when they go outside their narrow fields.
---- https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell
It is wrong always,
everywhere, and for anyone,
to believe anything upon
insufficient evidence.
------
It is immoral to believe things
for which one lacks evidence.
--William Kingdon Clifford.(1845-79)
English mathematician, philosopher.
No matter
Which station of Life
One is.....
There are always
Questions....
One does need to ask
Oneself.
