Michele Pasin / Quotes

La concisione dell'haiku

L’haiku merita una menzione speciale in un’opera sul pensiero giapponese. La sua concisione è la medesima del cha no yu e del No. La lievità dell’accenno ci introduce a un altro mondo: la struttura 5/7/5 rappresenta l’equivalente delle luci soffuse nella casa da tè o dell’irruzione dell’attore sulla scena del No. Roland Barthes intuì che il minimo dispendio dell’haiku, il cosmo della mini-poesia, gli permetteva una estrema pienezza di scrittura.36 Come trascurare l’effetto del vuoto sull’intera struttura? Dove la forma è scarna, il vuoto può permettersi di rifulgere: non sarà una esibizione, bensì l’annuncio di una totalità più ampia;

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#poetry #nothingness #aesthetics #writing

Eastern and western philosophies

Nishida once suggested that we can distinguish traditional Eastern and Western philosophies by the East's prioritizing of nothingness and the West's reliance…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #Nishida #Western-philosophy #philosophy #nothingness

God

If death is an ever-present opening, the other side of that opening so to speak is the absolute. To die is to stand vis-à-vis the absolute. In the discussion…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #God #Nishida #absolute-nothingness #nothingness

Self-awareness: knower and known are one

The self-reflection known as self-consciousness or self- awareness (jikaku) provides an answer. There is a form of consciousness that inherently reflects or…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #Nishida #nothingness #consciousness #reflection

The Clear Light of the Void

Repeatedly over the following days I tried to relive those few apocalyptic seconds. For a timeless moment I had stood apart from everything. From absolutely…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #Buddhism #nothingness #fear #psychedelics

To be is to be within nothingness

Nishida initially formulated his logic of place or topos to counter Neo-Kantian epistemology that took knowledge to be the subject's form-ruled construction…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #nothingness #Nishida #absolute-nothingness #topos #things

All the world's a stage

As Jacques famously put it in Shakespeare’s As You Like It: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #role #society #identity #poetry