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Tag: philosophy

  • What is not learning: 無為 (wú wéi) and good governance

    That is what the pursuit of the 道 (dào) entails: an action that leads to less and less doing until there is no doing at all. However, this is not an empty sort of doing because “nothing is left undone” still. 無為 (wú wéi) is not just a “not doing” but an action-less action. Such…

  • Initial thoughts on ‘구운몽’ (Kim Manjung’s ‘The Nine Cloud Dream’)

    Initial thoughts on ‘구운몽’ (Kim Manjung’s ‘The Nine Cloud Dream’)

    “As he looked around, he was filled with melancholy thoughts, and he sighed. “My mind is tired and my nerves are frayed from the war. Why must I be so engaged with worldly troubles? After I have fulfilled my duties I will retire and live in nature, detached from the cares of this world of…

  • Augmented reality and the illusion of dependence

    I find it interesting how the ‘key takeaways’ in this article had been written: “Social media manipulates our reality by filtering what we are allowed (or not allowed) to see.” Louis Rosenberg, “Metaverse: Augmented reality inventor warns it could be far worse than social media.” BigThink. Link. Not because I agree or disagree with it,…

  • I See You

    I See You

    “I see you,” / said an online group / where we / felt stressed and anxious, / experienced a sense of / well— / with words / “saw” / me—my hopes, fears, struggles, and dreams— Today’s reading

  • ‘Riveted’

    A magic pill that brings forth wakefulness instantaneously to my sleeping hippocampus sedated by the lullof every ticking time bombs: dead-lineswhere the living humans lie—this word is my panaceathat an unseen spirit injects often without consentlike emergency aid before all is too lateand there is no one in the roombut the patient and the medicine…

  • To read or not to read

    To read or not to read

    There was a short fiction book I started reading last year and after a day of pain-staking—that is, with much, much pain—comprehending, I decided to put it down. It has been more than a year since and I have yet to feel the need to pick it up again, wherever it is now. I had…

  • On the relevance of ethnic homogeneity in the 21st century

    Can there instead be a way of defining a ‘nation’ beyond the boundaries of history and cultural similarities? Or is there even value still in cultivating such an idea—a nation of people—when the collective human race is being taken toward an inevitable connectedness? While there are mental gymnasts struggling to ‘establish’ and ‘develop’ what they…

  • Office garden

    A person awakened to the essential mutability of life does not dread physical waning or loneliness; rather, he or she accepts these facts with quiet resignation and even finds in them a source of enjoyment. Kyozo Murata The end of a week is not an unusual time to find oneself going through the bottomless pit…

  • A night’s reflections on routines, lethargy, and what it means to live freely

    오후 9:39 I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and…

  • Being, doing, tiring

    I heard it was said that resistance is a form of anger what then is this anger for? I cannot even see it only feel the tingles underneath my eyes Burning, oh, how they burn The yellow light from the distance remind me of hope, some home far away Except that home is not mine,…