Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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