21.01.2025 - Earth Quakes and more frequent & severe, and probable reasons and global warming & fossil fuels etc.

dali48 and private teaching since 8/1983, menaced since 1989, and writing diary & books & photographing in Erkrath etc.

see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes)

Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48) 

see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan) 

Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema) 

Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha) 

„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)

see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc. 

Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll) 

see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.

see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.

Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."

see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.

I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc

see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc..

see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.

see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.

"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)

see dali48 and health and suitable shoes & foot hygiene etc.

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.

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.

siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.

see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.

see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)

Wolfgang G. Greiner 

dali48 was born in SHA in 1948... Studies in Tübingen in 1970 etc. Teacher & Author in Erkrath, 8/1983 till 5/2010 ... retired in Wickrath since 6/2013 etc.

Interpretation of dali48 in 2010

1. Perhaps the exploitation of the inside of the earth (see coal, gas, oil etc.)! - Therefore I recommend solar & wind energy etc.!

2. The many explosions everywhere on the globe (see e.g. former atom tests etc.)! - Why do the whales die at the beaches (see e.g. sonar etc.)?

3. The changes inside the earth itself (movements etc.) - for me "Mother Earth" is a living being that is threatened by ... 

4. Cutting instead of planting trees, poisoning instead of cleaning & desalinating water, - and producing dirty instead of green energy!

5. Because of the rise of sea level and melting of icebergs in the north and south poles, powerful storms, droughts that could lead to famine, climate change and acid rain etc.!

6. Because of the extinction of wild animals that cannot find a habitat+food (and come into town therefore, - as the whales swim to the beaches) in the weakened forests which no longer can help sufficiently with the carbon sequestration+oxygen production etc.! 

7. Because of the growth of cancer, and destruction - instead of life and construction etc.!

8. Because of the growth of money & fun - instead of faith and bread etc.! ... (d.48)

Today, earthquakes are becoming more frequent and more severe as a result of global warming. While earthquakes cause tsunamis, new research is revealing that vast storms like hurricanes, along with other events brought on by climate change, can lead to an increase in seismic activity and thereby cause more earthquakes.07.09.2023

Projections suggest that 2025 might not be as hot as the past two years but that it will probably rank in the top five warmest years on record. Despite the year-to-year fluctuations, the general trend is obvious, as is the cause: the emission of greenhouse gases, primarily from fossil fuels.09.01.2025

21.01.2025 - Philosophy & postmodern present etc. / Zen and pure & true, wisdom & life etc.

dali48 and private teaching since 8/1983, menaced since 1989, and writing diary & books & photographing in Erkrath etc.

see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes)

Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48) 

see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan) 

Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema) 

Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha) 

„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)

see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc. 

Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll) 

see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.

see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.

Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."

see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.

I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc

see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc..

see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.

see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.

"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)

see dali48 and health and suitable shoes & foot hygiene etc.

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.

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.

siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.

see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.

see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)

Wolfgang G. Greiner 

dali48 was born in SHA in 1948... Studies in Tübingen in 1970 etc. Teacher & Author in Erkrath, 8/1983 till 5/2010 ... retired in Wickrath since 6/2013 etc.

Interpretation of dali48 in 2010

Niklas Luhmann is the last systematic thinker of philosophy. His epochal theory of society is a cool and precise description of the postmodern present! - It teaches us to avoid disappointment and avoid illusions! ...

"Love helps resolve the problem of sexual competition or defuse it," he writes in 1969. - A demystification of reality, of course. - But also a true description! ... Kant and Hegel, for Luhmann, "Old Europe"! 

In 1998 shortly before his 71th birthday he died in Oerlinghausen near Bielefeld. Luhmann has come a bit into oblivion after a period of enormous academic popularity in the 80s and 90s ... And then we all just long for it: for a list and order in a networked world, whose complexity of idea stresses us all! ... In this claim to universality, he is a kindred spirit of Kant and Hegel.

Luhmann wants to make all things new, describe the present with his own means ... "Sociological Enlightenment" is his goal, and thus a social science that is based on the interdisciplinary possibilities of the present and has a memory yet ... When he meets the American action theorist Talcott Parsons during a research stay at Harvard in 1960, he turns to the academic research work ... In 1968, he is applying to the Department of Sociology at the newly founded Reform University of Bielefeld (see e.g. Hartmut von Hentig etc - d.48).

If colleagues want him to pick up for a beer, he replies: "I read Hölderlin". The early widowed father of three children does not have time for leisure, he has to read and write. His work includes 14,000 printed pages at the end. Luhmann's systems theory combines biology with sociology, computer science, cybernetics and mathematics ... The society is divided into sub-systems such as law, economics or culture that operate autonomously and are hardly controllable from the outside ... That man plays no role in Luhmann's draft, and that he is subsuming him under the term "environment", is the point where most of his critics start ... His theory is an instruction for seeing, it does without a subject, a "world spirit" and reason ... He is an internist of postmodern society!

Jürgen Habermas has a famous controversy with Luhmann in the early 70s ... Luhmann, and this also sets him apart from his predecessors, does not believe in a change in the future (only technology is developing rapidly by destructing "flora & fauna" etc. - , man remains the same, - see History etc. - d.48)! ... In him there is no hope of improving the world. It will always remain the same! ... In business, there is only 1 means of communication, and that is the question of the profit / nonprofit! ... Luhmann helps to avoid disappointment! - Only one who devotes himself to no illusions can live happily! ... (Rhinish Post, 15.01.2010)

20.09.2010 - Zen and Philosophy

Boredom and dissatisfaction despite material wealth is the problem of the individual, and here one could question the ancient mystical traditions for a solution! ... (J. Blofeld)

The "Taoist" is someone who is not looking so much by what he lacks, but enjoys what he has! ... (R. Smullyan)

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration ... (Edison)

The way is lost, - and people don’t “feed” their hearts anymore (you lost yourself by losing your heart on the way etc. - d.48)! - The words that are spoken now come, not from the heart (see double tongue etc. - d.48)! - The fine gentlemen, in the midst of their drunkenness, are still looking for fame, south of the “Yangtze.” Only Yuan-Ming was pure and true. - He lived his life talking and laughing. - He was like a bamboo in the wind, swaying, bowing, shaking with all its leaves! - Some down, some turning up, each from a different form. - When he drank his wine, the poems were written by themselves ... (Su Tung-Pu)

"Crazy" philosophy is the most “vitalizing” thing in the world, it is a comprehensive enlightenment and an essential prerequisite to understand the things as they really are! - The wonderful thing about this ever-growing madness is, that it makes one more and more viable, lovable and tolerant! - If only one is crazy enough, even the usually so horrible state of mental health, will become bearable with time! - In a still more advanced stage of madness, the whole duality of madness and mental health transcends, and both will be detected as one and the same in reality! ... The religious education in childhood may well have the same psychological effect as a post-hypnotic suggestion! ... The “Satori” for the Zen Master Bankei meant the realization, that for the simple reason he could not even die, because he had never been born ... Sit quietly, doing nothing! - Spring comes and grass grows by itself, - wild geese do not throw its reflection on purpose, - water has no desire to receive it. - The old pine preaches wisdom! - A wild bird cries out the truth! ... (Zenrin Poetry)

When the birds sing their song from the treetops, they transmit the teaching of all the patriarchs. - When the mountain flowers bloom, its fragrance reveals the truth-sense! ... (Zen poem) 

Admirable is he who says at the sight of a lightning storm, "Life goes by like a lightning"! ... (Basho)

21.01.2025 - M. Heidegger and Philosophy & Reason of being & The Mesnerhaus (black forest) etc.

dali48 and visiting and photographing near spa house in Baden-Baden, 8/2010 etc.

see dali48 and "I think - therefore I am" etc. (Descartes)

Each day is our whole life - from sunrise to sunset etc… (dali48) 

see dali48 and "Zen finds religion in the daily activities." (I-tuan) 

Let go of something you like, and realize how fleeting it is by living without it... (Ayya Khema) 

Buddha realized that all living beings suffer because they desire and cling ... - Peace is an inner attitude to life that consists of letting go and renunciation (see e.g. nuns & monks etc. - d.48) ... (Buddha) 

„Das Leben im Daseinskreislauf ist leidvoll: Geburt ist Leiden, Altern ist Leiden, Krankheit ist Leiden, Tod ist Leiden; Kummer, Lamentieren, Schmerz und Verzweiflung sind Leiden." (Buddha)

see dali48 and own experiences and reading & writing about Kübler-Ross, Moody, NDE, LAL etc. 

Hands that help are holier than lips that pray! (Robert Green Ingersoll) 

see dali48 and Climate Change since Copenhagen 2009 etc. - "Uncontrolled capitalism is producing evil - as bees are producing honey" etc.

see dali48 and reading & writing about peace etc. - see e.g. Zen and Buddhism & Peace & Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayya Khema etc, and St Nicholas, St Hildegard, St Francis etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and eating less meat, and more fruits & veggies since the 80s etc.

Homeopathy of S. Hahnemann (ca. 200 years old) should be updated, - i.e. for me more Mother tincture & less shaking, and why is there no homeopathic vaccination? - see "similibus" principle etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "I hope that Biontech (formerly in Mainz, now in London) & #mRNA #vaccines etc. - will develop a vaccination against cancer etc."

see dali48 and Vollgeld-Initiative & Basic Income in Europe etc. - instead of Banking Crisis 2008 etc.

I also like weeping willow trees - e.g. when I was on camping vacation in the 80s in France & Spain, I had my lunch (fish soup) under such a tree (that was like a tent) in the park of Bordeaux etc. (dali48)

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" since ca. 2000, and deforestation instead of planting trees etc

see dali48 and trees and "flora & fauna" and healthy air etc..

see dali48 and Bread - instead of fire-works harming animals, pets etc.

see dali48 and Democracy & human rights & gender justice etc.

"Respect for life - should be the only religion in the world!" - "Religion is a journey inside - and meditation is the way there." ... (Osho)

see dali48 and health and suitable shoes & foot hygiene etc.

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.

see dali48 and "flora & fauna" and reforesting etc.

siehe „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Gott, ist wie eine gut organisierte Räuberbande“, hat Papst Benedikt den Bundestagsabgeordneten ins Stammbuch geschrieben (see e.g. Cum-Ex etc. - d.48)
see dali48 and demand for the repayment of 300 euros of self-approved inflation compensation for politicians at the taxpayer's expense etc.

see dali48 and health and herbs (see e.g. M. Mességué), and e.g. kidney-tea, gastrointestinal tea, tea for colds etc.

see dali48 and "Words have no direct reference to life, are only a pale echo or image of something that itself is no longer there" ... (D. T. Suzuki)

Wolfgang G. Greiner 

dali48 was born in SHA in 1948... Studies in Tübingen in 1970 etc. Teacher & Author in Erkrath, 8/1983 till 5/2010 ... retired in Wickrath since 6/2013 etc.

07.01.2010 - Interpretation of dali48

Heidegger (1889 -1976), the last meta-physician. The great philosopher of being! ...

With him ends a great find - after the last reason of being! ... Heidegger makes the adventure of philosophy to the drama of the philosophy ...

Poetry can sometimes open the wonder of the world. - The first guardian of this gate (poetry) is for him a Swabian poet, - his name is Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 -1843) ... (see Hölderlin Tower and Museum near the Neckar in Tübingen, etc. - d.48) ...

Retreat to his hometown (Meßkirch / Schwarzwald) to places of meditation! ...

Important concepts in the thinking of Martin Heidegger:

1st The phenomenology - it describes a path of knowledge ...

2nd The concern - worry is a form of lived temporality ...

3rd The "Man" - by this Heidegger describes you a sort of mock of our modern life, which is only a masquerade! ...

4th The turn - the turn marked a change of mind and is the hinge between Being and Time! ...

5th The clearing - Heidegger defines the unconcealment see insecurity, etc. - d.48) of existence as a clearing in the people, and also the indissoluble links with the world in which man according to Heidegger is cast (see e.g. Sartre’s essence - existence, etc. - d.48) ... (Rhinish Post, 07.01.2010)

Interpretation of dali48

Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976) was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being" ...

Heidegger argues that philosophy is preoccupied with what exists and has forgotten the question of the "ground" of being. We find ourselves "always already" fallen into a world that already existed; but he insists that we have forgotten the basic question of what being itself is. This question defines our central nature. He argues that we are practical agents, caring and concerned about our projects in the world, and allowing it to reveal, or "unconceal" itself to us. He also says that our manipulation of reality is often harmful and hides our true being as essentially limited participants, not masters, of the world which we discover! ...

Heidegger wrote about these issues in his best-known book, Being and Time (1927), which is considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. Heidegger's influence is far reaching, from philosophy to deconstructionism and literary theory, theology, architecture, and artificial intelligence ...

Heidegger is a highly controversial philosopher not only for his interpretation of the concept of Being, but especially because of his affiliation with the Nazis, for which he never apologized nor expressed regret, except in private when he called it "the biggest stupidity of his life" (die größte Dummheit seines Lebens)! - The so-called Heidegger controversy raises general questions about the relation between Heidegger's thought and his connection to National Socialism ...

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something "to be", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself ...

Heidegger's work has strongly influenced philosophy, aesthetics of literature, and the humanities. Within philosophy it played a crucial role in the development of existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstructionism, postmodernism, and continental philosophy in general. Well-known philosophers such as Karl Jaspers, Leo Strauss, Ahmad Fardid, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Lévinas, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, William E. Connolly, and Jacques Derrida have all analyzed Heidegger's work ...

Heidegger supported National Socialism in 1933 and was a member of the Nazi Party until May 1945, even though the Nazis eventually prevented him from teaching. His defenders, notably Hannah Arendt, see this support as arguably a personal " 'error' " (a word which Arendt placed in quotation marks when referring to Heidegger's Nazi-era politics). Defenders think this error was irrelevant to Heidegger's philosophy. Critics, such as Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Löwith, claim that Heidegger's support for National Socialism revealed flaws inherent in his thought ...

Heidegger later left Catholicism, describing it as incompatible with his philosophy. After studying theology at the University of Freiburg from 1909 to 1911, he switched to philosophy, in part again because of his heart condition ...

Through a confrontation with Aristotle he began to develop in his lectures the main theme of his philosophy: the question of the sense of being. He extended the concept of subject to the dimension of history and concrete existence, which he found prefigured in such Christian thinkers as Saint Paul, Augustine of Hippo, Luther, and Kierkegaard ...

His students at Freiburg included Charles Malik, Herbert Marcuse, and Ernst Nolte ...

Heidegger was elected rector of the University on April 21, 1933, and joined the  National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party on May 1. In his inaugural address as rector on May 27 he expressed his support to a german revolution, and in an article and a speech to the students from the same year he even supported Adolf Hitler. However, he resigned the rectorate in April 1934, but remained a member of the Nazi party until 1945, even though the Nazis eventually prevented him from teaching! ...

Some writers on Heidegger's work see possibilities within it for dialogue with traditions of thought outside of Western philosophy, particularly East Asian thinking. - Despite perceived differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, some of Heidegger's later work, particularly "A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer", does show an interest in initiating such a dialogue. Heidegger himself had contact with a number of leading Japanese intellectuals, including members of the Kyoto School, notably Hajime Tanabe and Kuki Shūzō. It has also been claimed that a number of elements within Heidegger's thought bear a close parallel to Eastern philosophical ideas, particularly Zen Buddhism and Taoism. - Paul Hsao records Chang Chung-Yuan saying that "Heidegger is the only Western Philosopher who not only intellectually understands but has intuitively grasped Taoist thought." - Some authors see great influence of Japanese scholars in Heidegger's work, although this influence is not acknowledged by the author.

Philosophical historian Hans Sluga wrote: "Though as rector he prevented students from displaying an anti-Semitic poster at the entrance to the university and from holding a book burning, he kept in close contact with the Nazi student leaders and clearly signaled to them his sympathy with their activism"...

In 1967 Heidegger met with the Jewish poet Paul Celan, a concentration camp survivor. - Celan visited Heidegger at his country retreat and wrote an enigmatic poem about the meeting, which some interpret as Celan's wish for Heidegger to apologize for his behavior during the Nazi era! ...

"Letter on 'Humanism'" is often seen as a direct response to Sartre's 1945 lecture "Existentialism is a Humanism" ...

Hegel-influenced Marxist thinkers, especially György Lukács and the Frankfurt School, associated the style and content of Heidegger's thought with German irrationalism and criticized its political implications! ...

Theodor Adorno wrote an extended critique of the ideological character of Heidegger's early and later use of language in the Jargon of Authenticity ...

In particular, Jürgen Habermas admonishes the influence of Heidegger on recent French philosophy in his polemic against "postmodernism" in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985) ...

Bertrand Russell commented, expressing the sentiments of many mid-20th-century analytic philosophers, that: Highly eccentric in its terminology, his philosophy is extremely obscure! ... (Wikipedia)

Meßkirch / Germany: 

Meßkirch, Deutschland

get directions

The Mesnerhaus in Meßkirch, where Heidegger grew up...

see dali48 and language teacher at FGYO / SIT in Tübingen and Lenzkirch (black forest) in 1975/76.