Gia-Fu Feng & Jerome Kirk - Tai Chi - A Way of Centering & I Ching - Collier - 1970 (photographs by Hugh Wilkerson, design by William Hopkins and Ira Friedlander)
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Gia-Fu Feng & Jerome Kirk - Tai Chi - A Way of Centering & I Ching - Collier - 1970 (photographs by Hugh Wilkerson, design by William Hopkins and Ira Friedlander)
Saint Onii-san (聖☆おにいさん). Understanding the Japanese Strategy of Syncretism
When we work as anthropologists, especially we media archaeologists, it is central to question our own interpretations as biased at best. Still, there is work to do. Through our tireless dialogues and humdrum carrying-ons there remains the work of turning lead into gold. This alchemy is anthropology. Learning to see the world for what it is, not what we think it is, or have come to believe it is.…
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La Fontaine's “The Dog that dropped the Substance for the Shadow”
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The Dog and Its Reflection, Arthur Rackham, illustrator (Gutenberg [EB #11339]“The Dog that dropped the Substance for the Shadow” is an Æsopic fables. It is #133 in the Perry Index where it is entitled “The Dog and Its Image,” or “The Dog and Its Reflection.” We can trace it back to Phædrus and Babriuswho committed to paper fables Æsop had told. Phædrus wrote in Latin and Babrius, in Greek.…
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Singapore
Singapore is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and is 137 kilometres north of the equator. Made up of the lozenge-shaped main island and over 60 much smaller islets, it is separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south.…
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Taoism
Perhaps one of the most well known Eastern traditions in Western society, due to the well-known YingYang symbol. It differs from Confucianism in the way that Taoism focuses more on isolation of the self, meanwhile Confucianism is about the self and others. Some key points regarding Taoism and its relations to positive psychology are as follows:
To strive is to be vain and counterproductive
Following the flow of events and being spontaneous in your actions is the optimal way to live (wu-wei)
Propriety is important to perform without effort
Don't run through life, but rather step back and go with the flow (similar to ju-jitsu, which is about following others movements)
Confucianism
This is a view that is dominant in China, and is a popular Eastern tradition. One of the most notable things is how the collectivist view differs from the individualist.
The Five Virtues to a Moral Life:
Humanity: charity, love, altruism
Propriety: ability to be sensitive towards others and display proper etiquette
Duty: treat others appropriately ("do unto others")
Wisdom: control your pleasures and know yourself (consider this similar to the Ego in Freud)
Honesty: be truthful with others
The way to happiness and being significant, is by contributing to society.