Some philosophical thoughts… about differences and languages
“All the time we are aware of million of things around us, aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. Once we have that handful of sand, a process of discrimination goes to work with it. We divide the sand into parts. This and that. Here and there. Black and white. Now and then.”
Does anybody of you readers recognize this sentence?
But what if, instead of looking for differences, we look for learning from those differences.
Now the question:
why do you travel? why do you like to meet new people? why do you learn a foreign language?
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July 10th, 2007 at 7:50 am
The whole landscape of awareness is reflected in every little particle of sand. It is all the same energy that takes various forms and interacts with itself. The same laws apply to both motorcycle maintenance and zen.
Why travel, if you always find variations of the same energy? Why meet new people, if you always look deep into their eyes to find your own reflection? Why learn languages, when what you love talking about the most is yourself?
My very personal answer is – all that new experience enriches the eternal soul, helps it overcome the dullness of everyday life, to fly beyond and communicate on a higher level. Traveling, interaction with people and cultures teaches us tolerance and compassion, new languages show us new ways of thinking and understanding the world and actually open our eyes to the beauty of every single particle of sand, even if it has always been in our backyard and we never noticed….
When I travel, I always find myself. When I meet new people, I get to know myself better. When I learn a new language, my own thoughts rearrange and I see better. And thus my eternal soul learns to fly higher.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Hi Denitsa!
I like to see another philosopher on our blog!
“If all of human knowledge, everything that’s known, is believed to be an enormous hierarchic structure, then the high country of the mind is found at the uppermost reaches of this structure in the most general, the most abstract considerations of all.
Few people travel there.
In the high country of the mind, one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked, and to the answers proposed to these questions.â€