Let Fall Our Ivory Towers
Oct. 20th, 2011 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
…dis-ease begins the moment all of us is not played.
Two things come out of this particular entry for me. The first of which I can't speak about as much as I would like because I can't find the text I want to refer to anywhere. I know I used to have it – should still have it somewhere – but it was a book that dealt with the notion that each of us is god. "Thou art god…" the book taught that in an interesting and thoughtfully spiritual way – and yes, you really did need to think when you read that book… particularly about the nature of 'Hu' in the question/statement "Hu are you?" It's going to bother me now until I can find the book.
The second is the origin of words and their meanings. Say the word 'disease' to anyone and they will automatically think of being ill, or having a sickness, virus, etc… but look up there… look at the word. It's made up of a prefix (dis) and the word, (ease). Anything that puts us not at ease… is disease. This has to be one of my favourite – and in my opinion the most profound – example of the change in meanings and understanding of words down through the millennia that we've used language… and that brings me a nice segue into a show I recently saw with Mir at Memorial Hall. The show was called Babel… (http://youtu.be/Sz7UY5DEVhQ), and really defies description, but begins with a 'robotic doll' kind of character talking about the evolution of word and language and communication. Seriously see the show live if you get the chance, and if not, watch the clips on Youtube. I came away from the theatre both babbling with excitement over what I'd just seen and totally speechless about it both at the same time. I've not seen anything quite as breathtaking and meaningful for a long, long time. It was jsut astounding!
The God in us is not a half-presence.
There is no screening who we are.
…dis-ease begins the moment all of us is not played.
Two things come out of this particular entry for me. The first of which I can't speak about as much as I would like because I can't find the text I want to refer to anywhere. I know I used to have it – should still have it somewhere – but it was a book that dealt with the notion that each of us is god. "Thou art god…" the book taught that in an interesting and thoughtfully spiritual way – and yes, you really did need to think when you read that book… particularly about the nature of 'Hu' in the question/statement "Hu are you?" It's going to bother me now until I can find the book.
The second is the origin of words and their meanings. Say the word 'disease' to anyone and they will automatically think of being ill, or having a sickness, virus, etc… but look up there… look at the word. It's made up of a prefix (dis) and the word, (ease). Anything that puts us not at ease… is disease. This has to be one of my favourite – and in my opinion the most profound – example of the change in meanings and understanding of words down through the millennia that we've used language… and that brings me a nice segue into a show I recently saw with Mir at Memorial Hall. The show was called Babel… (http://youtu.be/Sz7UY5DEVhQ), and really defies description, but begins with a 'robotic doll' kind of character talking about the evolution of word and language and communication. Seriously see the show live if you get the chance, and if not, watch the clips on Youtube. I came away from the theatre both babbling with excitement over what I'd just seen and totally speechless about it both at the same time. I've not seen anything quite as breathtaking and meaningful for a long, long time. It was jsut astounding!
