Forwarded from Incendiary Ideas (Jason Reza Jorjani)
“Titan of the Rock,” a piece about WHY we are going to build a colossus of Prometheus on Alcatraz. https://americancolossus.org/the-rock/
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Forwarded from Brambles' Burrow
sketchbook doodle with gouache.
based off a 15th century manunoscript illumination
based off a 15th century manunoscript illumination
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West, and then seek. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
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Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
Bruce Lee perfectly exhibits the value of syncretism and the utility of shattering paradigms.
Lee was born in San Francisco but was raised on the streets of the Westernized British colony of Hong Kong. Here he would regularly get into fights all the way up until he left to come back to America after getting into trouble from beating up the son of a local crime lord.
He learned in both Eastern and Western arts, receiving training in boxing and fencing before having to resort to private training in Wing Chun under Yip Man due to the fact that Chinese masters and other students wouldn’t train with him because of his 25% German ancestry.
Lee was very much philosophically minded and an authentic intellectual. He studied Newtonian physics to understand the principles behind the techniques of the martial arts that he practiced and during a 6 month period of being bedridden due to an injury he researched “the many volumes on martial arts, philosophy, and motivational psychology that he had collected in his extensive library.
"He read and reread Buddha, Alan Watts, Karl Rogers, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Pearls, D.T. Suzuki, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. In dialogue with these thinkers, above all Krishnamurti, the bedridden Bruce Lee filled seven notebooks with The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
“With a total disrespect for traditional formality and guided solely by the criteria of practicality, flexibility, speed, and efficiency, Lee worked to merge the strongest elements of diverse Asian martial arts traditions together with Western techniques.
"Lee called this “style of no style” Jeet Kune Do or “The Way of the Intercepting Strike,” and adopted “Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation” as its motto. These phrases were emblazoned in Chinese calligraphy around the Taiju, together with arrows depicting the constant flow back and forth between yin and yang.
“Patterns of rhythmical classical blocks — such as katas of karate — are not suited to the broken rhythm of a street fight. It is not simply that they are not physically versatile enough. Stereotyped technique psychologically mediates one’s relationship to one’s opponent, thereby interfering with a direct perception of the combat situation and precluding an immediate response. Consequently, a process of un-conditioning the mind is required in order to replace a “this is the only way” attitude with what Lee calls “choiceless awareness.”
"According to Lee, “awareness has no frontier” whereas “all thought is partial.” Systems are established out of fear of uncertainty. So as to be secured against being disturbed by the unexpected, one’s relationship to others is fixed within a pattern of conduct. These patterns are sustained by thought, which is a mechanical process whereby memory frames every new experience in terms of old habits and prejudices.”
[The above quotations come from Lovers of Sophia by Jason Reza Jorjani]
Lee was born in San Francisco but was raised on the streets of the Westernized British colony of Hong Kong. Here he would regularly get into fights all the way up until he left to come back to America after getting into trouble from beating up the son of a local crime lord.
He learned in both Eastern and Western arts, receiving training in boxing and fencing before having to resort to private training in Wing Chun under Yip Man due to the fact that Chinese masters and other students wouldn’t train with him because of his 25% German ancestry.
Lee was very much philosophically minded and an authentic intellectual. He studied Newtonian physics to understand the principles behind the techniques of the martial arts that he practiced and during a 6 month period of being bedridden due to an injury he researched “the many volumes on martial arts, philosophy, and motivational psychology that he had collected in his extensive library.
"He read and reread Buddha, Alan Watts, Karl Rogers, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Pearls, D.T. Suzuki, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. In dialogue with these thinkers, above all Krishnamurti, the bedridden Bruce Lee filled seven notebooks with The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
“With a total disrespect for traditional formality and guided solely by the criteria of practicality, flexibility, speed, and efficiency, Lee worked to merge the strongest elements of diverse Asian martial arts traditions together with Western techniques.
"Lee called this “style of no style” Jeet Kune Do or “The Way of the Intercepting Strike,” and adopted “Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation” as its motto. These phrases were emblazoned in Chinese calligraphy around the Taiju, together with arrows depicting the constant flow back and forth between yin and yang.
“Patterns of rhythmical classical blocks — such as katas of karate — are not suited to the broken rhythm of a street fight. It is not simply that they are not physically versatile enough. Stereotyped technique psychologically mediates one’s relationship to one’s opponent, thereby interfering with a direct perception of the combat situation and precluding an immediate response. Consequently, a process of un-conditioning the mind is required in order to replace a “this is the only way” attitude with what Lee calls “choiceless awareness.”
"According to Lee, “awareness has no frontier” whereas “all thought is partial.” Systems are established out of fear of uncertainty. So as to be secured against being disturbed by the unexpected, one’s relationship to others is fixed within a pattern of conduct. These patterns are sustained by thought, which is a mechanical process whereby memory frames every new experience in terms of old habits and prejudices.”
[The above quotations come from Lovers of Sophia by Jason Reza Jorjani]
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