Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slobodan, A big thanks once again.. Karina > Hi Karina; > The best reading, and I mean the very best, would be Hanna Arendt's The > Life of the Mind, thinking and willing. It takes the western form to a > very rarefied level. I would expect no less from Martin Heidegger's old > girl friend. While we may find the Orient's processes of living in the > world attractive, and seductive, the Western traditions have even more > to offer to us. That is because we are of it, and in it, for better or > for worse. We share in its intuitive immediacy in the same way that the > other share their own intuitively apprehended reality. > On that vein, if you must, or are compelled by some unseen force to > plumb the depths of the Orient's soul then do it. As a former Religious > Studies student, and still practising to this day, I learned to stay > away from interpretative materials. Go only to translation, or more > appropriately transliterations, from acknowledged sources. Stay away > from pop exegetical materials, as they very often use badly translated > materials and draw conclusions that are often foundationaly unsound. > On the other hand read the Chuang Tzu, Burton Watson, Columbia > University Press. It has the barest minimum annotations, which makes for > good reading. I carried mine wherever I went for years. > Best, > Slobodan Dimitrov > > > kiklaas@iinet.net.au wrote: > > > > Slobodan, > > > > I am interested in this (Haiku) after reading the Tao of Photography, I > > find this kind of wisdom has a profound effect on how I see what is > > happening around me and hopefully a great influence on my photography > > > > Karina > > > > >> > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html