Stephen Buhner 2: Tuesday October 7th 2014
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- The second morning of teaching on the short course led by Stephen Buhner at Schumacher College on October 7th, 2014.
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A truly remarkable human being. He was the most likeable academic I've ever ran across. He had the rare gift of being aristocratically brilliant but with the humility and sense of humor of your goofy uncle. I've found myself laughing out loud reading his books many times. His ability to weave dry wit and sarcasm into scientific topics was a gift. He also had a deep compassion for humanity. His work with herbs saved countless lives and stopped a lot of suffering, including mine. Thank you Stephen, you are cherished and missed.
Stephen, wherever you are I am sure you are enriching the environment with your compassion and child-like sincerity.
My weird take on Cogito ergo sum is a rather garbled something. There is this (i.e, thought, feeling), therefore God. Or phrased another way, “I think/feel, therefore God.” God, a verb that takes no subject or object. There are certain words which words cannot define-they burst through the deepest shadows of the mind.
The most important and difficult thing to learn when learning to meditate is that we don’t exist. Thoughts don’t have a thinker. So again, there is thought without self. Everyone starts thinking, “Well…how can I meditate better?” And they try everything in the world and that doesn’t work. Then there is a moment of enlightenment, and one realizes Emptiness, Thusness: “There is nothing in this world that in any way is a self or pertains to a self. All is characterised as-thus.” And through the heart, a reality beyond the senses, beyond self-referentiality (prapañca) and beyond the thinking mind is understood, a Truth. This is the germination of wisdom.
I so wish that I were able to get to know this person before he died. As is said of obstacles, though…
Absolutely brilliant, funny, intelligent, interesting and compassionate - a rare combination. So glad I was introduced to your work. Much love from Scotland ♥️🏴♥️
Hi, I just found this ♥️ is there part 3&4? (I followed the link bellow & there's nothing there)
absolutely mesmerizing! Loving every word of this.
I can't help though but trying to alleviate some of the shade thrown to poor Descartes :p
While i agree it's absolutely true that the movement towards overemphasizing thinking, analytics and rationality took a turn for the worse with Descartes and his contemporaries, and while i absolutely agree there is a FEELING associated with those words that thinking is superior, it was not what was meant by these words.
The words "i think therefore i am" were written down in the context of understanding what is ultimately knowable without a doubt. ie: Can we be anything outside our own perception exists? Could it not be that everything is just a trick of the mind. Descartes here, just like Kant, comes to the conclusion that all rationalism and all logic statements are ultimately unknowable, BUT there are few thruths that can stand, such as existance exists: if i can think, than surely i AM (in what way i am is fundamentally unknowable but that i am is sure). It could have been anything else, really, i act therefore i am would have had equal truth.
So yeah, agreed, let's move the paradigm, i FEEL before I THINK,...
but give the poor man some slack and let's not forget that the context of these words was really interesting: namely, to point out that the world as we know it is ultimately unknowable but that at least it is undoubtable we do exist.
Wow thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank You for posting these kaylaannmoberg.
Is there a part 3 and 4 ?
Have the Best Day Ever!
Take a look here: www.gaianstudies.org/Stephen_Interviews.html
The book "A Story Like the Wind" by L. Van der Post --one of my favorite books, is a wonderful tale of Bushmen and the Kalahari.
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