Bonnie, I am in trying to understand how to approach studying the Dao the Ching, are there particular english translations or other secondary literature that you would recommend engaging with?
Bonnie, I really appreciate this post. It resonates with my body in powerful ways. Katie, thanks for the link and sharing an insight that Wakefield offers. I am pondering a couple of things.
Reality feels unknowable. Perhaps the through the colonizing of the mind by modernity. It might be that through the practice of relatedness - to ourselves, each other, and the planet - we can get a broader sense of reality. Though not sure.
A wondering if unlearning is the pathway forward. It seems that without the hard and painful work of unlearning all I can offer are my projections and fantasies of reality.
f u c k i n a w e s o m e! This urged me pull out my copy of Stephanie Wakefield's "Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space" where she disavows us of resilience systems thinking (trying to maintain the height of the "liberal regime" and preserve our deficient mental models/structure ways of doing, naming and splitting -- producing more of the disasters it is intervening to prevent). Instead, what if the back loop is not a problem to be fixed but a new reality that requires audacious experimentation and "new mind" hypotheses to be tested and iterated? Couples well with your "complex potential states" B. And is Lyric Culture our way of "feeling forward" from the futurepast?
Great book if folks are interested. Springboarding off of Gunderson and Holling she gives case studies of what she sees as real life experimentation in the back loop:
katie, thanks for the recommendation. I am readying the book and it is amazing. I found myself trapped in binary thinking of resilience and ruins thinking. Only half way through and find it so helpful.
One thing wonder is the thinking that creates experiments is rooted in modernity and the current liberal order. Perhaps Lyric Culture can support the "unlearning" and new learning.
Thank you, Ms. Roy. I especially appreciated this notion: "Lyric culture does not say, tell or name reality. It discloses reality"...As we attempt to disclose, let us not confuse self-promotion (the production, promotion, and marketing of authenticity) for authenticity, itself because once we promote our authenticity, it ceases to be authentic. Rather, disclosure is unselfconsciously real.
Bonnie, the link in "feeling forward." seems to be broken.
Bonnie, I am in trying to understand how to approach studying the Dao the Ching, are there particular english translations or other secondary literature that you would recommend engaging with?
I would start with this one
https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching-Lao-Tzu/dp/1582431825/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
but I have to warn you I have something like 20 versions
thank you! one has to start somewhere :))
Bonnie, I really appreciate this post. It resonates with my body in powerful ways. Katie, thanks for the link and sharing an insight that Wakefield offers. I am pondering a couple of things.
Reality feels unknowable. Perhaps the through the colonizing of the mind by modernity. It might be that through the practice of relatedness - to ourselves, each other, and the planet - we can get a broader sense of reality. Though not sure.
A wondering if unlearning is the pathway forward. It seems that without the hard and painful work of unlearning all I can offer are my projections and fantasies of reality.
f u c k i n a w e s o m e! This urged me pull out my copy of Stephanie Wakefield's "Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space" where she disavows us of resilience systems thinking (trying to maintain the height of the "liberal regime" and preserve our deficient mental models/structure ways of doing, naming and splitting -- producing more of the disasters it is intervening to prevent). Instead, what if the back loop is not a problem to be fixed but a new reality that requires audacious experimentation and "new mind" hypotheses to be tested and iterated? Couples well with your "complex potential states" B. And is Lyric Culture our way of "feeling forward" from the futurepast?
Great book if folks are interested. Springboarding off of Gunderson and Holling she gives case studies of what she sees as real life experimentation in the back loop:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/anthropocene-backloop/
katie, thanks for the recommendation. I am readying the book and it is amazing. I found myself trapped in binary thinking of resilience and ruins thinking. Only half way through and find it so helpful.
One thing wonder is the thinking that creates experiments is rooted in modernity and the current liberal order. Perhaps Lyric Culture can support the "unlearning" and new learning.
Thank you, Ms. Roy. I especially appreciated this notion: "Lyric culture does not say, tell or name reality. It discloses reality"...As we attempt to disclose, let us not confuse self-promotion (the production, promotion, and marketing of authenticity) for authenticity, itself because once we promote our authenticity, it ceases to be authentic. Rather, disclosure is unselfconsciously real.
Aheya ooo la mah rey! (there's no way to leave a voice note. this is a sung reply.)
Simply amazing rendition Bonnie. The more times I listen the more I understand.
You have put it in such a way the that your saying begins an understanding which turns into a narrative worthy of comment.
And more, maybe it’s worthy of a life worth living as we shoulder the burdens of the Anthropocene.
Yes, listen to the earth and sing and gesture the future awake.