Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Haiku
From: kiklaas@iinet.net.au
Date: 30 Apr 2002 03:18:44 -0000

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
> > 
> > >>
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