At 07:01 AM 6/27/2007, you wrote: >the wise man is not learned; the learned man is not >wise....tao te ching > >wisdom is borne from the immediate apprehension of the >relative. > >the child is the wisest. > >hence in nietzsche: the camel is the first age: it >carries the burdens that society imposes on it...and >it incorporates them. > >the lion is the second age, it has fully incorporated >the social and now must slay the dragon of the ego. >the ego, fully developed, is now to be transcended. >the ego is the apotheosis of the social. it is the >bridge between the social and intellectual. > >the dragon, on whose scales are writ innumerable 'thou >shalts', is slain by the lion, whose ferocity is in >direct proportion to the size of the burden the camel >bears. > >and now the lion becomes the child: born again, but >this time born consciously, born of itself: a >god-child. > >this is the state of intellectual cleanliness, indeed >next to godliness. > >we are camels yearning to be dragon-killers but our >ire is ill-directed, deflected from its rightful >target. instead we turn our violence on each other, >mindless of the foe that, unseen, delivers the blows >that we blame on each other. > >we can't see the forest for the trees! > >because we are in the forest.
Yes Gav, I know that I am not separate from the Social Level. Is that an aspect of what you mean? Marsha moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
