our spirit is expressed thru our body via the mind… this concept of conscious creation is also known as “ART”. easterners like to call it kung fu, which gets confused with cartoon pandas, mcmen who fight in cages, and flashy bald acrobats that work for the tourism industry - yet really it amounts to something like time in energy. how do you spend your time and energy? what is your life-style kung fu? we are manifestations of our inner light in ALL that we do…
Having said that, I find it difficult to define myself by anything I do.
When my Dad died, he left a tremendous body of work that was his art.
That pile of paper and canvas and sculpture was definitely not him nor was it descriptive of who he was. It was a consequence of his efforts though.
I am of the opinion these days that there is more value in fetch wood and carry water than almost anything else.
Don’t worry about trying to define yourself so much. Just be, because when you are no longer being, it is only a short while until you are forgotten entirely but your efforts of fetching wood and carrying water remain behind. Hopefully, those efforts can be further built upon to facilitate yet more fetching of wood and carrying of water.
[QUOTE=taai gihk yahn;938495]nice to have you back, to bring some non-sense to this place…[/QUOTE]there is common sense and there is uncommon sense, which is nonsense to those with no sense.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;938499]That presupposes that we have a spirit.[/quote]what shall we call it then? lifeforce, essence, soul… the you of the i that is in and from everything.
I am of the opinion these days that there is more value in fetch wood and carry water than almost anything else.
me too… people have become lazy.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;938508]We are so much more than the sum of our parts.[/quote]yet it is nice to express them… life would be quite drab if there were no expressions of itself.
Nice work on the stonework Uki, is it finished yet?
no… its getting there.
[QUOTE=golden arhat;938496]you must have the mind of the tiger spiritual…[/QUOTE]i am a tiger…
While we may argue and debate what Soul is and what spirit is, its hard to argue that there is “something” else at play with we hear music played in a way that is, well, amazing.
[QUOTE=sanjuro_ronin;938523]While we may argue and debate what Soul is and what spirit is, its hard to argue that there is “something” else at play with we hear music played in a way that is, well, amazing.[/QUOTE]
well, it’s not hard to argue from a standpoint of physics. But yes, “something” is at play. The greek philosphers, especially Pythagoras recognized this and expressed it as mathematical harmonics in context to the planets in his Music of the spheres.
Vibration causes change. music is in essence oscillation of tone/harmonics created by vibration of a given element and through movement of air.
This in turn will effect surfaces that it hits. some to no effect and others to greater effect and also causing a cascade in some instances.
so, you hear music, it resonates in your inner ear and is carried to the brain where it is expressed as electrical impulses that in turn spark other reactions. If the tone is close to your own vibration, you get the spine tingler, if it is opposed to your own resonation, you are repulsed somewhat or find it to be not likable.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;938533]well, it’s not hard to argue from a standpoint of physics. But yes, “something” is at play. The greek philosphers, especially Pythagoras recognized this and expressed it as mathematical harmonics in context to the planets in his Music of the spheres.
Vibration causes change. music is in essence oscillation of tone/harmonics created by vibration of a given element and through movement of air.
This in turn will effect surfaces that it hits. some to no effect and others to greater effect and also causing a cascade in some instances.
so, you hear music, it resonates in your inner ear and is carried to the brain where it is expressed as electrical impulses that in turn spark other reactions. If the tone is close to your own vibration, you get the spine tingler, if it is opposed to your own resonation, you are repulsed somewhat or find it to be not likable.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;938516]maybe “it’s” nothing at all?[/quote]each to their own, but i find that highly unlikely… we are all extensions of “something”, call it what you will… the way, god, light… in the end its just another label for a near inexplicable concept that can only be realized. if everything were random cause and effect, you wouldn’t have the phenomenom of snychronicity.
no soul, just being, then, being no more.
but once a being is no more… it must come into being again - like leaves on tree. a soul only winks out for a season and then returns once more… high tide and low tide.
Like an ant we step on with regularity, we have no more prominent place ultimately than it does.
that’s quite a statement… i don’t regularily step on ANY insect(always rescuing them from the mud or freeing them from the house), ants least of all. much can be learned from watching the wisdom of the ants life unfold before you. in athens below white rocks just before the acropolis there is an ant colony that is thousands of years old… the roads that spoke out of the main entrance are polished with the sheen of marble… i once spent and entire day watching and learning from life on those ant roads.
[QUOTE=MightyB;938537]Uki, you’re one strange dude.[/quote]depends on whose perspective you are looking at me from.
but you do beautiful stone work. Love the yard… very cool.
thank you… just wait until i finish it.
Interesting thread. I think style certainly is an expression of one’s nature and demeanor, using an old meaning of spirit here that does not require the supernatural.
On the other hand, as David related in what he said about his father, this is not what ultimately survives of what we are to those who truly know us, what survives is what we do for and/or with the whole.
I would say that any pursuit of the spirit should logically lead to the knowledge that we are always parts of wholes, and so are defined by our contribution. Where the style of our contribution shapes it positively, we survive through the continuation of that positive contribution among other parts of the whole touched by it. Where the style of that contribution is negative, the same.
When it’s Chaotic Neutral, well, that’s just running around killing people, dwarves, unicorns, frost giants, but that only lasts until you cross the Githyanki. After that, if your family wants to remember you, they’ll have to go to the Githyanki’s adamantine fortress and leave flowers where your head and testicles are mounted. Whose gonna go to all that trouble?
[QUOTE=KC Elbows;938564]Interesting thread. I think style certainly is an expression of one’s nature and demeanor, using an old meaning of spirit here that does not require the supernatural.
On the other hand, as David related in what he said about his father, this is not what ultimately survives of what we are to those who truly know us, what survives is what we do for and/or with the whole.
I would say that any pursuit of the spirit should logically lead to the knowledge that we are always parts of wholes, and so are defined by our contribution. Where the style of our contribution shapes it positively, we survive through the continuation of that positive contribution among other parts of the whole touched by it. Where the style of that contribution is negative, the same.
When it’s Chaotic Neutral, well, that’s just running around killing people, dwarves, unicorns, frost giants, but that only lasts until you cross the Githyanki. After that, if your family wants to remember you, they’ll have to go to the Githyanki’s adamantine fortress and leave flowers where your head and testicles are mounted. Whose gonna go to all that trouble?
