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by Georg
September 1st, 2009, 7:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
Replies: 5
Views: 18654

Re: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?

and so try to explain it as part of the reality we have made instead
Totally agree. The "reality we have made" is a reality of explanations and "knowing". It is very limited - that's the "hell" part about it.
by Georg
September 1st, 2009, 7:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rapture?
Replies: 21
Views: 63060

Re: Rapture?

"How do we explain the evident presence in our lives of Self-Realized Teachers, those like Buddha, Jesus, Nisargadatta, Ramakrishna, Rumi." Sorry for nitpicking here: What do you mean by "evident presence"? Of those teachers named, I have only "evident" presence of wri...
by Georg
August 24th, 2009, 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?
Replies: 5
Views: 18654

Re: Looking or Seeing? Hearing or Listening?

Some thoughts after having listened to a russian balalaika street musician quartet interpreting Mozart in Salzburg (his birthplace city): Beauty is not measurable and not objective. Whether the play "of one of the best musicians in the world playing pieces of one of the best componists on one o...
by Georg
July 18th, 2009, 7:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rilke
Replies: 6
Views: 21618

Re: Rilke

Please, feel free to quote anything from these translations.
by Georg
June 9th, 2009, 6:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rilke
Replies: 6
Views: 21618

Re: Rilke

This poem is the last of Rilke's "Sonets to Orpheus". Orpheus, the singer, crossing the line to the land of the dead and coming back. But the last poem is not directed to Orpheus - it is directed to the listener but adressing him as going through the same metamorphosis, losing himself to g...
by Georg
May 28th, 2009, 9:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rilke
Replies: 6
Views: 21618

Rilke

I really love this one, hope the translation is not too coarse. --- Stiller Freund der vielen Fernen, fühle, wie dein Atem noch den Raum vermehrt. Im Gebälk der finstern Glockenstühle laß dich läuten. Das, was an dir zehrt, wird ein Starkes über dieser Nahrung. Geh in der Verwandlung aus und ein. Wa...
by Georg
May 28th, 2009, 8:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Replies: 7
Views: 22414

Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer

An english translation of another poem "By gracious powers" can be found here (sorry, probably I can't just paste it here for copyright reasons): http://www.ekd.de/medien/film/bonhoeffer/texte.html The first verse - which is also the closing one - has been turned into a song which is quite...
by Georg
May 28th, 2009, 7:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Replies: 7
Views: 22414

Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Regarding "Who's asking" - Bonhoeffer wrote the following poem titled "Who am I" in June 1944: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=385 What may have begun for Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the "outer" side - as a politically and socially engaged christian - at...
by Georg
May 19th, 2009, 9:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Replies: 7
Views: 22414

Re: From Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I am also fascinated by this "turn" in Bonhoeffer's life. But actually I think it is not a turn - as his friend Eberhard Bethge shows in his biography, throughout Bonhoeffer's life, there is a movement from orthodoxy and strict morale through consequent action towards contemplation and tol...
by Georg
May 7th, 2009, 8:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Movie Suggestion
Replies: 5
Views: 20492

Re: Movie Suggestion

Hello Reinhold, I agree now that thoroughly asking the question "Who am I" is the shortest path! And I have to admit that I was struggling with the german word "Bewußtsein" as a translation of "awareness", because it has the connotion of "consciousness", which...
by Georg
April 27th, 2009, 8:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Movie Suggestion
Replies: 5
Views: 20492

Some afterthoughts ...

... after having seen this movie, too. The tale of John Oldman creates a mirror onto which each of the other persons - except for Sandy - projects something of his/her own. And all of them are hiding their projections behind some kind of "objective interest" or "search for objective t...
by Georg
March 3rd, 2009, 10:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tarkowskij's "Stalker" as a lesson in spirituality
Replies: 1
Views: 11657

Tarkowskij's "Stalker" as a lesson in spirituality

... I am barely able to describe what this film evokes in me. While from a cognitive perspective, there are different interpretations, Tarkowskij's intention is a purely spiritual one and he even rejected interpretations. In fact I never have seen a film as deeply spiritual as this one. And I never ...
by Georg
March 1st, 2009, 10:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich
Replies: 1
Views: 11599

Two paintings by Caspar David Friedrich

Hello, I like these two paintings (amongst others by the same painter) as 'roadsigns' and want to share them with you. They are called "The Monk by the Sea" and "The Abbey in the Oakwood" and were painted as counterparts. Some general descriptions can be found at Wikipedia: http:...
by Georg
December 22nd, 2008, 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oops
Replies: 2
Views: 17825

Re: Oops

Your first thought reminds me of a story from "One Minute Wisdom" by Anthony de Mello. Here it is (hopefully the translation back from German is ok): --- The master walked at the riverside together with some scholars. He said: "See, how the fish are swimming around where they like. Th...