#beyond language

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Georgiana Feidi Maria Radna Monastery Lipova 2017

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If you know a view as a view, you can be free of that view. If you know a thought as a thought, you can be free of that thought.

—Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”  (Thanks Candace Chellew)

[inbetweenimperfectmusings]

That’s it.

I’ve finally witnessed love.

Now I know what I’m looking for-

I watch him hold her hand,

Translate for her 

So the doctor understands,

I watch and learn,

My eyes smiling far more than my mouth,

Love doesn’t know language

Only two people 

And the meeting of their souls

[studyinglogic]

Such [a semantic] approach to logic and its applications is not an arid academic exercise. Our pre-theoretical intuitions can often be ill-formed and misleading. The enterprise of providing a formal semantic definition often strengthens our grasp of the underlying intuitions by providing a precise formulation. Of course, it may turn out that our first attempts at formalisation do not quite capture our underlying intuitions. But it is precisely here that the power of formal semantics is most readily seen. Once we have a precise semantic theory we can measure it against our intuitions and if need be modify it if found inadequate. Moreover, such a formal theory provides a background and yardstick for axiomatisation. We require an axiomatisation which is both sound and complete, and such notions have no precise sense outside of a fully developed semantic theory.

Raymond Turner, Logics for Artificial Intelligence (Ellis Horwood, 1984), §8.2, p. 118.

See also Sven Ove Hansson’s article on formalization in philosophy, Wakker’s distinction of paramorphic and homomorphic models in Prospect Theory, and Hansson’s Beyond Language: Using Logic to Introduce New Philosophical Distinctions. He writes:

[O]nce a distinction or a concept has been developed in formal language it can often also be expressed in non-formal language. Another way to express this is that logic is often indispensable in the contexts of discovery and justification, but dispensable in the contexts of further elaboration and dissemination.

[turiyatitta]

After Enlightenment

“As they say, before enlightenment, chop wood carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood carry water.”This phrase is often repeated as reassurance that awakening does not remove one from ordinary life. Yet when examined carefully, it exposes a deeper paradox that cannot be resolved by sentiment alone. Wood is Maya.Water is Maya.The body that lifts the axe is Maya.The action of chopping is…

After Enlightenment

[haliaganotise]

Shouts for the Sleeping

I'm a Poet. I write stuff, read it aloud too.

If I drop the title would it still hold true?

Maybe I'm transcribing memory viscerally onto parchment with a feral gaze.

As I sort through emotions deeper than David Bowie's iconic maze.

Maybe I'm too stupid to understand why silence surrounds some tragedies with origins to Humans.

Maybe that's why I continue to shout at bustling street corners, unaware my words are left ignored.

But maybe my world got more than it bartered for.

Joy speckles my notebook pages with greater rage than my pain.

A catalogue for every reason why my waking is not effort spent in vain.

What titles do you wear? Who else could you be?

[iyemarathichiyenagari1971]

शब्दांमध्ये अडकू नका. स्वरूपाचा अनुभव घ्या.

बुद्धीची पुळिका विरे । परिमळु घ्राणीं उरे ।तोही शक्तीसवें संचरे । मध्यमेमाजी ।। २४६ ।। ज्ञानेश्वरी अध्याय सहावा ओवीचा अर्थ – बुद्धीचा आकार ( चैतन्यांत ) नाहींसा होतो. नाकांमध्ये राहिलेली गंध घेण्याची जी शक्ति, ती कुंडलिनीबरोबर सुषुम्ना नाडीत शिरते. या ओवीत संत ज्ञानेश्वर ध्यानावस्थेतील अंतर्गत प्रक्रिया उलगडून सांगतात. बुद्धीची पुळिका विरे – ध्यानात मन पूर्णतः विश्रांत झाल्यानंतर “बुद्धीची…

शब्दांमध्ये अडकू नका. स्वरूपाचा अनुभव घ्या.

[turiyatitta]

The Silence That Speaks

Fragments Cannot Contain the Whole Every word spoken about enlightenment is a slice taken from an indivisible whole. A shard. A sliver. No matter how sincere the voice or radiant the realization, the moment it’s articulated, it becomes partial. Even the most luminous sage can only gesture toward it, never deliver it in full. This isn’t a critique of language. It’s the recognition that language…

The Silence That Speaks

[untitledpablo]

schematization

You nowmust knowwhat it is to crave a glass of wateror to sip a kiss;to be so reckless as to floodthe heart because it is a crater of chalkand you’re tired of its empty dusty frame. I don’t remember whatkind of day it was.Full of sun withmusky winds, dark withimpalpable clouds, perhapsflat and drunk in sapphire. I don’t care what kind of dayit was; a day to forget like allthe rest had I not…

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