18.03.2014 - Schopenhauer's influence upon later thinkers etc. by dali48
dali48 and private teaching and writing diary3 and cycling in Erkrath, 8/1983 – 5/2010
04.01.2010 - Interpretation of dali48
Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) - the great pessimist... Life as Suffering: Basically, life is not worth living. In addition, it rushes inexorably towards death. Also, the knowledge does not continue to help - quite the contrary: The genius suffers most... Redemption is the negation of the will - as in ascetic. By pity the care for other beings - including animals (see flora & fauna, etc. - d.48) becomes our own motif ... which may come to the extinction of the will and thus to a state of ecstasy. In addition, the music is a kind of reflection of the will in itself. So it is the deepest essence of the people and things to talk... (Rhine Post, 04.01.2010)
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world... Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied (see also dali48 etc)…
The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition - Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation... Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges...
However, only five students turned up to Schopenhauer's lectures, and he dropped out of academia - A late essay, On University Philosophy, expressed his resentment towards the work conducted in academies... In 1821, he fell in love with nineteen-year old opera singer, Caroline Richter (called Medon), and had a relationship with her for several years. He discarded marriage plans, however, writing, "Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties," - and "Marrying means to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find an eel among an assembly of snakes." - When he was forty-three years old, seventeen-year old Flora Weiss recorded rejecting him in her diary...
In 1831, a cholera epidemic broke out in Berlin and Schopenhauer left the city. Schopenhauer settled permanently in Frankfurt in 1833, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years, living alone except for a succession of pet poodles named Atman and Butz. The numerous notes that he made during these years, among others on aging - were published posthumously under the title Senilia... Schopenhauer had a robust constitution, but in 1860 his health began to deteriorate - He died of heart failure on 21 September 1860, while sitting on his couch with his cat at home - He was 72... A key focus of Schopenhauer was his investigation of individual motivation - Before Schopenhauer, Hegel had popularized the concept of Zeitgeist - the idea that society consisted of a collective consciousness which moved in a distinct direction, dictating the actions of its members... Music, for Schopenhauer, was the purest form of art - because it was the one that depicted the will itself without it appearing as subject to the Principle of Sufficient Grounds, therefore as an individual object. According to Daniel Albright, "Schopenhauer thought that music was the only art that did not merely copy ideas, but actually embodied the will itself"... These ideas foreshadowed the discovery of evolution, Freud's concepts of the libido and the unconscious mind, and evolutionary psychology in general... As a consequence of his monistic philosophy - Schopenhauer was very concerned about the welfare of animals... For this reason, he claimed that a good person would have sympathy for animals - who are our fellow sufferers... Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character - and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to living creatures cannot be a good man... In 1841, he praised the establishment, in London, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - and also the Animals' Friends Society in Philadelphia - Schopenhauer even went so far as to protest against the use of the pronoun "it" in reference to animals - because it led to the treatment of them as though they were inanimate things... The Upanishads was a great source of inspiration to Schopenhauer, and writing about them he said: "It is the most satisfying and elevating reading (with the exception of the original text) which is possible in the world; it has been the solace of my life and will be the solace of my death"... Schopenhauer noted a correspondence between his doctrines and the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism - Similarities centered on the principles that life involves suffering, that suffering is caused by desire (tanha), and that the extinction of desire leads to liberation... Buddhist philosopher Nishitani Keiji, however, sought to distance Buddhism from Schopenhauer... The argument that Buddhism affected Schopenhauer’s philosophy more than any other Dharmic faith loses more credence when viewed in light of the fact that Schopenhauer did not begin a serious study of Buddhism until after the publication of The World as Will and Representation in 1818... Schopenhauer said he was influenced by the Upanishads, Immanuel Kant and Plato. References to Eastern philosophy and religion appear frequently in Schopenhauer's writing. As noted above, he appreciated the teachings of the Buddha and even called himself a "Buddhist"... Among Schopenhauer's other influences were: Shakespeare, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Matthias Claudius, George Berkeley, David Hume, and René Descartes... We usually are not aware of the breathing of our lungs - or the beating of our heart - unless somehow our attention is called to them. Our ability to control either is limited… Our kidneys - command our attention on their schedule rather than one we choose. Few of us have any idea what our liver - is doing right now, though this organ is as needful as lungs, heart, or kidneys. The conscious mind is the servant, not the master, of these and other organs; these organs have an agenda which the conscious mind did not choose, and over which it has limited power... Schopenhauer has had a massive influence upon later thinkers - though more so in the arts (especially literature and music) and psychology than in philosophy... (Wikipedia)
Schopenhauer's
birthplace — house in, Gdańsk (Danzig), ul. Św. Ducha
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dali48 20 months ago from Germany Hub Author
Thank you tonymac04, for your Comment on Schopenhauer - For further reading about this Hub, see books, blogs, comments, tweets, buzz... by dali48 on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot.com, Goodreads.com, StumbleUpon, Amazon, Bod.de, Pinterest, etc.
dali48 4 years ago from Germany Hub Author
There is a series of philosophers in the
"Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf: Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Bloch, Adorno, Gadamer, Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Habermas, N. Luhmann, Sloterdijk… (www.rp-online.de/kultur)
tonymac04 4 years ago from South Africa
Interesting! Wish it were a little longer. Don't know all that much about Schopenhauer but always wanting to learn! Thanks for sharing. Love and peace, Tony
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12.03.2014 – Diary3 and Ayya Khema and Maurice Mességué and D.T. Suzuki etc. by dali48
dali48 and writing Tagebuch 2008 + 2009, diary3 (2010), ediary4+5 (2011 + 2012), Collection of ediary6-12 (2013 - 2019) etc.
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diary3 deals with topics from the field of psychology, alternative medicine, Christian and non-Christian religions, Zen-Buddhism, interpretations of excerpts from the speeches of the Nobel laureates in Literature etc. It describes interesting facts from the past to the future, and is focusing on the present...
It includes the following authors: Ayya Khema, S. Hite, V.E. Frankl, M. Méssegué, G. Marquez, W. Golding, Dalai Lama, D.T. Suzuki, J. Seiffert, Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha, J.v.d. Wetering, Allen Ginsberg, C. Simon, Johannes Paul1, K. Dürckheim, W. Soyinka, S. Freud, P. Sloterdiyk, J. Brodsky, P. Celan, A. Schweitzer, G. Groddeck, St. Hildegard, I.B. Singer, T. Dethlefsen, A.T. Kushi, E. Drewermann, O. Pamuk, Naguib Mahfouz, F. Nietzsche, C.J. Cela, O. Paz, A. Schopenhauer, N. Gordimer, Anais Nin, Abrahms/Spring, R. Dahlke, Ryokan, D.H. Lawrence, T. Morrison, etc... (dali48)
Thursday 27 March 2008
28/03/2000
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To this end, let something go - for a moment from which you think that you deserve it, for example something that you enjoy doing, something that you like or think is important. Examined it again and again, until you realize how fleeting it is. Then you will say to you at some point: "I don't need it I can do without it." - This is the moment of truth...
Persistent irritation: We are constantly under the fire of all those things and phenomena, which we: 1st hear - 2nd see - 3rd smell - 4th taste - 5th touch - and 6th think...
Buddha could clearly see every moment of suffering for all beings, because they seek and adhere... Luck is no accident. Nor is it dependent on external conditions. And peace is not a piece of paper, not a treaty that would sign the UN. Peace is always state of being, an internal standard of living, which is based on letting go, on self-denial... We need not worry about what will happen after death, perhaps with us. Better we take care of the Now and to the moment of death. We can start with something, because it is accessible to us, not an inconceivable idea how all the ideas that are entwined with the life after death. But we can only learn if we give it all up, one by one. Every day a little something... Only when we learn something new, we have used the day for the cause for which it was given us. The breakthrough for wisdom (see Nirvana, etc. - d.48), which is the only purpose of our lives - Every day is our life... (Ayya Khema)
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Ayya Khema (1923 - 1997), a Buddhist teacher, was born as Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany, to Jewish parents. Khema escaped Nazis persecution during World War II. She eventually moved to the United States. After travelling in Asia she decided to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979. She was very active in providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism, founding several centers around the world. In 1987 she co-ordinated the first ever International Conference of Buddhist Nuns. Khema wrote over two dozen books in English and German, including her autobiography: I Give You My Life...
Ayya Khema was born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents. In 1938, she escaped from Germany with two hundred other children and was taken to Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents went to China and, two years later Ayya Khema joined them in Shanghai. With the outbreak of the war, however, the family was put into a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp where her father died. She later married, had a son and a daughter, and now has four grandchildren...
Four years after the American liberation of the camp, Ayya Khema was able to emigrate to the United States. Between 1960 and 1964 she travelled with her husband and son throughout Asia, including the Himalayan countries, during which she learned meditation. Ten years later, she began to teach meditation throughout Europe and Australia. Her experiences led her to become a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979, when she was given the name of "Khema" (Ayya means Venerable) meaning safety and security. In Sri Lanka she met her teacher the Ven. Matara Sri Ñāṇanārāma of Nissarana Vanaya who inspired her to teach jhana meditation. As it was not possible at the time to organize an ordination ceremony for bhikkhunis in the Theravada tradition, Ayya Khema then received complete monastic ordination at the newly built Hsi Lai Temple, a Chinese Mahayana temple under the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, in 1988...
She helped to establish Wat Buddha Dhamma, a forest monastery in the Theravada tradition, near Sydney, Australia, in 1978. In Colombo she set up the International Buddhist Women's Centre as a training centre for Sri Lankan nuns, and the Parappuduwa Nun's Island at Dodanduwa. (now closed). She was the spiritual director of Buddha-Haus in Germany, established in 1989 under her auspices... In June 1997 "Metta Vihara", the first Buddhist forest monastery in Germany, was inaugurated by her, and the first ordinations in the German language took place there...
In 1987 she co-ordinated the first International Conference of Buddhist Nuns in the history of Buddhism, which resulted in the setting-up of Sakyadhita, a worldwide Buddhist women's organisation. H.H. the Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker at the conference. In May 1987, as an invited lecturer, she was the first ever Buddhist nun to address the United Nations in New York on the topic of Buddhism and World Peace...
Ayya Khema has written twenty-five books on meditation and the Buddha's teachings in English and German; her books have been translated into seven languages. In 1988, her book "Being Nobody, Going Nowhere" received the Christmas Humphreys Memorial Award...
Ayya Khema ordained Ven. Sister Sangamitta from Switzerland (now practising in Thailand), Ven. Sister Dhammadina (a graduate of Peradeniya University), Ven. Sister Vayama from Australia, and Ven. Sister Uttpalvanna of Galle, and her pupils in Sri Lanka...
Ayya Khema drew her last breath on November 2, 1997 at Buddha Haus, Uttenbühl (part of the village Oy-Mittelberg) in Germany after a brief illness... (Wikipedia)
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Maurice Mességué (born 1921) is a French herbalist and author of several best-selling books on herbal medicine and cooking with herbs. In his autobiography he claims to have treated, among others, Winston Churchill, Chancellor Adenauer of Germany, and the future Pope John XXIII...
He was born in Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (Lot-et-Garonne)... In 1971, he was elected the Mayor of the town of Fleurance... Mességué practices a form of herbalism passed down through his family. Some of the practices involve, among other things, soaking the patient's feet in a strong decoction of locally gathered herbs... (Wikipedia)
Maurice Mességué (born 1921) is a French herbalist...
Colayrac-Saint-Cirq (Lot-et-Garonne) - Colayrac-Saint-Cirq, Frankreich
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The monasteries thus tended to become local centers of medical knowledge, and their herb gardens provided the raw materials for simple treatment of common disorders...
The bark of willow trees contains large amounts of salicylic acid, which is the active metabolite of aspirin. Willow bark has been used for millennia as an effective pain reliever and fever reducer... In India, the herbal remedy is so popular that the Government of India has created a separate department - AYUSH - under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The National Medicinal Plants Board was also established in 2000 by the Govt. of India in order to deal with the herbal medical system... There are many forms in which herbs can be administered, the most common of which is in the form of a liquid that is drunk by the patient - either an herbal tea or a (possibly diluted) plant extract... One of the most famous women in the herbal tradition was Hildegard of Bingen. A twelfth century Benedictine nun, she wrote a medical text called Causes and Cures... Native Americans medicinally used about 2,500 of the approximately 20,000 plant species that are native to North America. With great accuracy, the plants they chose to use for medicine were in those families of plants that modern phytochemical studies show, contain the most bioactive compounds... Some researchers trained in both western and traditional Chinese medicine have attempted to deconstruct ancient medical texts in the light of modern science...
The energetic. - This approach includes the major systems of TCM, Ayurveda, and Unani. Herbs are regarded as having actions in terms of their energies and affecting the energies of the body. The practitioner may have extensive training, and ideally be sensitive to energy, but need not have supernatural powers... Researchers from Ohio Wesleyan University found that some birds select nesting material rich in antimicrobial agents which protect their young from harmful bacteria... Sick animals tend to forage plants rich in secondary metabolites, such as tannins and alkaloids. Since these phytochemicals often have antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antihelminthic properties, a plausible case can be made for self-medication by animals in the wild... Because "over 50% of prescription drugs are derived from chemicals first identified in plants," a 2008 report from the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (representing botanic gardens in 120 countries) warned that "cures for things such as cancer and HIV may become 'extinct before they are ever found'" (see also dali48).They identified 400 medicinal plants at risk of extinction from over-collection and deforestation, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease. These included Yew trees (the bark is used for the cancer drug paclitaxel); Hoodia (from Namibia, a potential source of weight loss drugs); half of Magnolias (used as Chinese medicine for 5,000 years to fight cancer, dementia and heart disease); and Autumn crocus (for gout). Their report said that "five billion people still rely on traditional plant-based medicine as their primary form of health care"... (Wikipedia)
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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West... D. T. Suzuki was born Teitarō Suzuki in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki. The Buddhist name Daisetsu, meaning "Great Humility", the kanji of which can also mean "Greatly Clumsy", was given to him by his Zen master Soen (or Soyen) Shaku. Although his birthplace no longer exists, a humble monument marks its location (a tree with a rock at its base). The samurai class into which Suzuki was born declined with the fall of feudalism, which forced Suzuki's mother, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist, to raise him in impoverished circumstances after his father died. When he became old enough to reflect on his fate in being born into this situation, he began to look for answers in various forms of religion... Suzuki studied at Tokyo University. When he was young, Suzuki had set about acquiring knowledge of Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, and several European languages... In 1911, Suzuki married Beatrice Erskine Lane, a Radcliffe graduate and Theosophist with multiple contacts with the Bahá'í Faith both in America and in Japan. Later Suzuki himself joined the Theosophical Society Adyar and was an active Theosophist... Besides living in the United States, Suzuki traveled through Europe before taking up a professorship back in Japan. Suzuki and his wife dedicated themselves to spreading an understanding of Mahayana Buddhism... In addition to his popularly oriented works, Suzuki wrote a translation of the Lankavatara Sutra and a commentary on its Sanskrit terminology. Later in his life he was a visiting professor at Columbia University. He looked in on the efforts of Saburō Hasegawa, Judith Tyberg, Alan Watts and the others who worked in the California Academy of Asian Studies (now known as the California Institute of Integral Studies), in San Francisco in the 1950s... Suzuki also took an interest in Christian mysticism and in some of the most significant mystics of the West, for example, Meister Eckhart, whom he compared with the Jōdo Shinshū followers called Myokonin. Suzuki was among the first to bring research on the Myokonin to audiences outside Japan as well... Suzuki's Zen master, Soen Shaku, who also wrote a book published in the United States (English translation by Suzuki), had emphasized the Mahayana Buddhist roots of the Zen tradition. Suzuki's contrasting view was that, in its centuries of development in China, Zen (or Chan) had absorbed much from indigenous Chinese Taoism. Suzuki believed that the Far Eastern peoples had a more sensitive or attuned to nature than either the people of Europe or those of Northern India... It was Suzuki's contention that a Zen satori (awakening) was the goal of the tradition's training, but that what distinguished the tradition as it developed through the centuries in China was a way of life radically different from that of Indian Buddhists. In India, the tradition of the mendicant (holy beggar, bhikku in Pali) prevailed, but in China social circumstances led to the development of a temple and training-center system in which the abbot and the monks all performed mundane tasks. These included food gardening or farming, carpentry, architecture, housekeeping, administration (or community direction), and the practice of folk medicine. Consequently, the enlightenment sought in Zen had to stand up well to the demands and potential frustrations of everyday life... Under Soen Shaku, Suzuki's studies were essentially internal and non-verbal, including long periods of sitting meditation (zazen). The task involved what Suzuki described as four years of mental, physical, moral, and intellectual struggle... Interestingly, later in life Suzuki was more inclined to Jodo Shin (True Pure Land) practice on a personal level, seeing in the doctrine of Tariki, or other power as opposed to self power, an abandonment of self that is entirely complementary to Zen practice and yet to his mind even less willful than traditional Zen... Suzuki was the foremost important person in spreading Zen in the west. Philosopher Charles A. Moore said: "Suzuki in his later years was not just a reporter of Zen, not just an expositor, but a significant contributor to the development of Zen and to its enrichment"... This is echoed by Nishitani Keiji, who declared: "... in Dr. Suzuki's activities, Buddhism came to possess a forward-moving direction with a frontier spirit... This involved shouldering the task of rethinking, restating and redoing traditional Buddhism to transmit it to Westerners as well as Easterners... Buddhist Modernist traditions often consist of a deliberate de-emphasis of the ritual and metaphysical elements of the religion, as these elements are seen as incommensurate with the discourses of modernity. Buddhist Modernist traditions have also been characterized as being "detraditionalized," often being presented in a way that occludes their historical construction. Instead, Buddhist Modernists often employ an essentialized description of their tradition, where key tenets are described as universal and sui generis. It was this form of Zen that has been popularized in the west... Suzuki has been criticized for this essentialist approach. As early as 1951 Hu Shih, himself following a Chinese nationalist agenda, accused Suzuki of presenting an idealist picture of Zen... As a response to the modernisation of Japan and the persecution of Buddhism, the shin bukkyo, or "New Buddhism" came into existence. It was led by university-educated intellectuals who had been exposed to a vast body of Western intellectual literature. Advocates of New Buddhism, like Suzuki's teachers Kosen and his successor Shaku Soen, saw this movement as a defense of Buddhism against government persecution, and also saw it as a way to bring their nation into the modern world as a competitive cultural force... Indeed, the one feature shared by virtually all of the figures responsible for the Western interest in Zen is their relatively marginal status within the Japanese Zen establishment. While Suzuki, Nishida, and their intellectual heirs may have shaped the manner in which Westerners have come to think of Zen, the influence of these Japanese intellectuals on the established Zen sects in Japan has been negligible. At this point, it is necessary to affirm that Japanese Zen monasticism is indeed still alive, despite the shrill invectives of some expatriate Zen missionaries who insist that authentic Zen can no longer be found in Japan... Kemmyō Taira Satō does not agree with this critical assessment of Suzuki: "In cases where Suzuki directly expresses his position on the contemporary political situation - whether in his articles, public talks, or letters to friends (in which he would have had no reason to misrepresent his views) - he is clear and explicit in his distrust of and opposition to State Shinto, rightwing thought, and the other forces that were pushing Japan toward militarism and war, even as he expressed interest in decidedly non-rightist ideologies like socialism. In this Suzuki’s standpoint was consistent from the late nineteenth century through to the postwar years. These materials reveal in Suzuki an intellectual independence, a healthy scepticism of political ideology and government propaganda, and a sound appreciation for human rights"... Carl Jung wrote of him: “Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism… We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task." But Jung was also critical, warning against an uncritical borrowing from Asian spirituality... (Wikipedia)
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Indeed, the one feature shared by virtually all of the figures responsible for the Western interest in Zen is their relatively marginal status within the Japanese Zen establishment. While Suzuki, Nishida, and their intellectual heirs may have shaped the manner in which Westerners have come to think of Zen, the influence of these Japanese intellectuals on the established Zen sects in Japan has been negligible. At this point, it is necessary to affirm that Japanese Zen monasticism is indeed still alive, despite the shrill invectives of some expatriate Zen missionaries who insist that authentic Zen can no longer be found in Japan... Kemmyō Taira Satō does not agree with this critical assessment of Suzuki: "In cases where Suzuki directly expresses his position on the contemporary political situation - whether in his articles, public talks, or letters to friends (in which he would have had no reason to misrepresent his views) - he is clear and explicit in his distrust of and opposition to State Shinto, right-wing thought, and the other forces that were pushing Japan toward militarism and war, even as he expressed interest in decidedly non-rightist ideologies like socialism. In this Suzuki’s standpoint was consistent from the late nineteenth century through to the postwar years. These materials reveal in Suzuki an intellectual independence, a healthy scepticism of political ideology and government propaganda, and a sound appreciation for human rights"... Carl Jung wrote of him: “Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism… We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task." But Jung was also critical, warning against an uncritical borrowing from Asian spirituality... (Wikipedia)
Golden Snow
“dairy 3 is filled with so much interest dali48 ... enjoyed the journey ... history in the making ... covers many topics of health, both in body and mind ... which was my interest, but found myself caught up in the many histories of great people … beautiful diary” ...
dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
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dali48 and menaced private teaching (since 1989) and writing books & cycling & photographing in Erkrath till 5/2010.
dali48 and playing chess and stopping smoking as a sports student in Tübingen in the 70s etc.
Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48)
see Human Rights & Survival without clean air ca. 3 minutes, clean water ca. 3 days, clean food ca. 30 days etc. (dali48)
see dali48 and a nervous breakdown (burnout) & 1 year of psychotherapy as a student in Tübingen in 1973 etc.
see dali48 and "Flora & Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - “If the "Flora & Fauna" disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind wouldn't have anything left to survive” etc.
22.11.2023 - Around Lake Unterbach near Erkrath there were many swifts flying close to my head till 5/2010. In Wickrath I don't see swifts anymore since 6/2010 etc.
21.06.2023 - I didn't see a butterfly yet in Wickrath this year ... (dali48)
Leaf blowers against bees etc. in the gardens correspond to hurricanes against humans etc. (dali48)
I'm neither right nor left, see Salvador Dali in this context - I'm only dali48
“There is no greater wealth in this world than peace of mind.” ~ Unknown
Psychology says, Trust your intuition. It never lies.
see dali48 & FGYO / SIT, language teacher, 1975/76 in Tübingen and Lenzkirch (Black Forest), and wandering in the morning, and in Erkrath (8/1983-5/2010) cooking houseman and teaching in the afternoon, on Saturdays & compact courses during holidays etc.
see dali48 and walking and cycling etc. - and without own car in Erkrath since 2004 - and without driving in Wickrath since 6/2010 etc.
"It takes few words to express the essential" - Paul Éluard
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ... (H. Miller)
"The past is pain, the future uncertainty. The present is all we have" ... (Tao Wong)
„Wer immer die Wahrheit sagt, kann sich ein schlechtes Gedächtnis leisten.“ (F. Sulzer
)
"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way." (F. Kafka)
see dali48 and bees and CCD and "neonics" since ca. 2000 etc.
In "love" are the beginning and the climax - the most beautiful periods etc... (dali48)
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." (S. Freud)
Why not use bio-methane, hydrogen, bio heating oil, e-heating oil - instead of banning oil and gas heating etc. (dali48)
"Only the present moment counts, even when the subject is the past." (R. D. Brinkmann)
"Non-sexual intimacy is therapeutic. Deep conversations, healthy silence, a unique joke from an old memory, similar interests; beautiful stuff." (@ML_Philosophy
)
see dali48 and “If the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only have little left to live healthy,” see e.g. Amazonas forest, Indonesia etc, see e.g. @CGShanghaiAir Shanghai - 2023-03-06 4PM - PM2.5 - 103 AQI - Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups ... etc.
see dali48 and trees & photo synthesis and fresh air and health and cooling and biodiversity etc.
Why not recreate lost Wetlands by desalinated sea water? ... (dali48)
Half of the money for arms should go as reparation to "flora & fauna" & UBI ,,, (dali48)
More money than 1 million should be redistributed into small basic incomes etc. (dali48)
"#UBI is the only policy that can end the Rat Race before it ends us." e money for arms
"Getting older is realizing putting yourself first isn’t selfish, it’s necessary" (@meauhlback
)
"Some people go through our lives to teach us not to be like them." ( Lev Tolstoy)
"is it ethical to hoard bread when families are starving?" (@existentialcoms
)"The goal isn’t money, the goal is to spend your days as you wish." (@ML_Philosophy
)“Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.” ― Arthur Janov, The Biology of Love"Be teachable. You’re not always right." (@ML_Philosophy)
"The tombstone of capitalism will later say: too much was not enough." (Volker Pispers)
see dali48 and environmental disasters & @sara_s_2020 & #Tiredearth & Manila Slum (Philippines) & Creek etc.
»Auf dem Grabstein (der Erde; d. Red.) könnte stehen: Jeder wollte das Beste – für sich.« (Siegfried Lenz)
"Smiling mobilizes 15 muscles, but sulking requires 40. Rest: smile!" (Christophe André)
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift that"s why they call it the present." - (@TheWordicle)
"When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective." (Ryan O’Donnell)
"A kind word can warm up to three months of winter" - Japanese proverb
"It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." (@wise_chimp)
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (@PsychologyDose_)
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth." - Lao Tzu
"... We get old too soon, and wise too late." (@_AhmadHijazi)
"Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what we love" - Albert Camus
I am allowed to say NO to others and YES to myself." (@Lenka49044040)
"You can only live forwards, understand life only backwards." (Søren Kierkegaard)
"Write your life - Or they'll wait till you're dead to write the lie" ... (@spectraspeaks)
see "Remove the idea that anybody else is responsible for your misery and suffering; that somebody can give meaning to your life. Accept that you are alone, born alone (premature birth, 7 months etc. - d.48), and you will die alone" ... (Osho)
"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" ... (Osho)
"Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there" ... (Osho)
"Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan)
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see dali48 and nervous breakdown & psychotherapy (1 year) in Tübingen in 1974 and the ontogenetic & phyloggenetic unconscious etc.
see dali48 and dreaming & visions, see e.g. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami etc, see Golden G. Snow "I journey I know it's true. I've seen the future too. In my "journey", things are not good. So much of the earth will be ... soon. I have no more to say."), and NDE and reincarnation and reading & writing ...
see scott_hurst retweeted by dali48 "If all the atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences but less than 1% of the prison population." Spelt helps: fatigue, loss of energy, heart problems etc. (St Hilda)
@dali48
I found this dairy of great interest and enjoyed the journey ... it is filled with well written information that covers all age groups, from history to health both in body and mind ... the why's and where's are answered in complete ... thanks dali48 for sharing ...
Thank you for sharing. Your braveness to fight illness has inspired me to face life in a different way dali48. I love the concept of living in the moment and breathing into it. This has improved my health both in body and mind.
Deutsch Ausgabe | von 48 Dali | 28. Dezember 2009
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dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...
see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 in Erkrath etc. - instead of Ecology & Health etc. - Uncontrolled capitalism (without UBI & wealth tax) produces evil as bees produce honey, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 & UBI etc.
see @nur_Dagmar / ntv: "Global #militaryspending exceeds for the first time 2 TRILLION dollars" (2022) - instead of 1 trillion for #ClimateEmergency 2022 and basic income etc. (dali48)
see dali48 & "The already uninhabitable Earth. Today (3.7.23), Zabol in Iran recorded the highest temperature on Earth at 49.6C" (@PGDynes), see e.g. https://aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world, & #ClimateEmergency 2022 instead of clean air (see e.g. Shanghai Air etc.) & drinking water (see desalination of sea water since ca. 2000), enough trees & healthy fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy since the 70s & UBI since 2008 & biodiversity & health & no heat waves, pandemic, inflation, wars etc. The World’s Workers Are Donning Cooling Vests to Battle Record Heat Waves ... BY CHRIS BARANIUK
Garments that can be packed with ice or equipped with fans are becoming increasingly popular among workers exposed to high heat. - see dali48 and watching female construction workers in the heat near medical environment university in Orio in Japan in 1978
see dali48 & Heatwaves in #Europe, see #IPCC #ClimateReport, see #ClimateEmergency 2022 (https://insideclimatenews.org/.../cold-weather-polar.../ via , #heatwaves #Pakistan & #India 62°C/143°F, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 LST, dryness, #Wildfires in US & Canada, 'gigafires' & air pollution (Australia, Amazonas (#amazon #brasilien #luigicani #bäume #natur #pflanzen #säen), California, South Europe, South America, etc), floods, hurricanes, cyclones etc. since ca. 2000, loss of home in Africa, Southeast Asia & Pacific etc. - despite Club of Rome in the 70s, Copenhagen 2009, Paris 2015, Coronavirus 2020, #EarthOvershootDay 2021, #COP26, mass extinction, ecocide (https://www.stopecocide.earth/.../ecocide-due-to-biomass...), "ethnic cleansing", factory farming & zoonoses, racing in the wrong direction, see Instead of €100 billion for armaments - €50 billion for #ClimateEmergency and basic income etc. (dali48), see https://www.boell.de/.../20/wettrennen-die-falsche-richtung, see #SaveTibetSaveThePlanet, see Indigenous Climate Action etc. - instead of clean air & drinking water, enough trees & fish, #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & Basic Income (see https://eusignday.eu) & biodiversity & health & cures instead of wars & inflation etc. War crimes, see e.g. Ukraine etc. - and environmental crimes, see e.g. Kuwait, 50 million tires burn etc. - should be documented & punished by the UNO etc... (dali48)
see History & Genocide of Minorities & Scapegoats - instead of @UNHumanRights and Protection of #environmentdefenders & reparation for natives etc... (dali48)
Don't see swallows here in Wickrath (2018) as before at Lake Unterbach where they were deeply flying before the rain, and were nearly touching my head till 2010... (dali48)
see dali48 and Concerning Chernobyl 1986, see sohub.io/uo63, see sohub.io/st6t, and Fukushima 2011 - see http://www.mdr.de/.../video-2362_zc-b45e8c8c_zs-6da2f47c... - see Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidentshttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Comparison_of_the_C... The following table compares the nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (2011) nuclear power plants, the only INES level 7 nuclear ... Survivors of nuclear testing should get reparation by the UN etc. (dali48)