#distinctions

[thirdity]

The world of appearances is complicated, and language has only verbalized a minuscule part of its potential, indefatigable combinations.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Verbiage for Poems"

[suliqyre]

Total awareness is the ability to see everything from every possible perspective in every moment. It is not merely adopting a balanced position between two opposing perspectives, but to be capable of seeing both simultaneously. It is to be able to raise oneself up to the perspective of a god and to lower oneself to the perspective of a grain of sand. It is to be able to see not only from these extremes but also from every point along the continuum between them.

The complete perspective granted by such an awareness encompasses all possible subjectivities of all possible entities. It is from this paradoxical position that all that appears permanent is also impermanent and all that appears separate and distinct is also a continuous part of the whole. It is from here that it is possible to see all particulars and thus also to be completely free of them. This is the freedom of emptiness, which is also liberation from attachment.

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[infosisraelnews]

Le chef du Mossad Barnea : « Nous avons obtenu du renseignement stratégique et tactique — au cœur même du secret de l'ennemi »

Les chefs du Mossad ne parlent pas souvent en public. Quand ils le font, chaque mot est pesé. Ce mardi matin, lors d’une cérémonie de remise de distinctions pour l’année 2025, David Barnea — connu dans les milieux du renseignement sous le surnom « Dadi » — a rompu le silence caractéristique de l’institution qu’il dirige avec une déclaration qui n’a rien d’anodin : « Nous avons obtenu du…

Le chef du Mossad Barnea : « Nous avons obtenu du renseignement stratégique et tactique — au cœur même du secret de l'ennemi »

[philosophybits]

The things in the one kosmos have not been separated from one another, nor hacked apart with an axe — neither the hot from the cold nor the cold from the hot.

Anaxagoras, Fragments, B8

[philosophybits]

Since all things have been named light and night and the things which accord with their powers have been assigned to these things and those, all is full of light and obscure night together, of both equally, since neither has any share of nothing.

Parmenides, Fragments, B9

[suliqyre]

The world of our experience is not uniform but filled with differences. We perceive many of these differences and take note of them. This looks more round than that. This feels smoother than that. This sounds higher pitched than that. This tastes sweeter than that. This smells more floral than that. We are obsessed with differences, and we form categories to group similar objects together based on the differences we perceive.

As we categorize, we also cannot help wonder which categories are better than others. We like what is beautiful, useful, or a source of pleasure. We impose our judgments on the objects we encounter and we produce a ranking of categories. Some things are simply better for us than others, so we prefer those things over the others. In this way, our obsession with differences is also an obsession with hierarchy.

We project our judgments of what is best onto the world and perpetuate them through the norms and systems we create together with others. Often we do not see this process happening because it seems natural to us that we should shape the world to be how we want it to be. But in doing so, we also risk greatly limiting ourselves.

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[sicilldis]

Definitions of sickness, illness and disease Although the terms are often used interchangeably, sickness, illness and disease have different meanings that reflect different perspectives. Disease is an objective term referring to diagnosable abnormalities in organs, body systems or physiology. Illness is a subjective term referring to an individual’s experience of mental and physical sensations or states, and may not necessarily indicate the presence of disease. Sickness encompasses both disease and illness. The difference between illness and disease was summarised by Cassell (1976): “Illness is what the patient feels when he goes to the doctor, disease is what he has on the way home” (p.53). The view of illness as a social role is based on the premise that the behaviour of patients, doctors and carers is related to social perceptions or constructs of sickness.

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