teaching and learning.......

I was reading a friend's blog, and the post said "se puede enseñar un arte? se puede aprender un arte?", meaning "is it possible to teach an art?, is it possible to learn an art?"

And it comes to my mind what I heard to a veteran teacher long time ago: "Maybe what is most important to learn cannot be taught"...........

where is the manual to learn inspiration?........
Is there a theory or a method that will lead us inevitably to feel love?........

In what chapter of what book generosity is taught?........
How to teach the perception of beauty?........
And, what method leads us to proper intuition?........

......and where can we learn to know oneself?........

....and how to learn the meaning of a 'suspension point' ............., that is to say, how to understand the meaning of silences........how to learn about the things not-manifested yet?........

Is there any path, technique or method to perceive truth?

So, if the most important things cannot be taught.......what is the role of education?
Is education the addition of things into a person or the uncovering, the removal of layers?

extraterrestrials and love

Today we were walking through a village and we heard a love song (see link below)....

If some extraterrestrials would be approaching Earth for the first time, they would be detecting radio waves coming out of our planet......to analyze what kind of planet and living creatures lived on it.....

They would find that very often radio waves referred to something called "love", with many confusing aspects about it.......and normally spoken about in a peculiar way that was called "singing"....

What conclusion would they reach about Earth?.....what is love?...is it only human or a much more widespread phenomenon?

E: Perhaps we could begin by asking the connection between "love" and feelings or sentience. It is commonly accepted that love is a very strong feeling or emotion. Maybe we could talk about that?


"O mio babbino caro"

humans

There is something different about humans.....what is it?

We have been appalling...many times....

But there is also something moving about humans...

What is it that makes us human....really? who are we?

Susan Boyle

"know thyself"

Since I was very young I heard the statement "know thyself" or "It is important to know yourself"....It sounded like a good idea....a reasonable idea....but i did not know exactly why.....

The other day in a dialogue, a group of us was talking about the possibility that all in the universe, even though it looks and feels as separate entities, could be just one.......

And then an idea came to my mind. If (and this is a big "if") all in the universe shares or partakes the same essence, then the mind shares its essence with the whole universe....

Meaning that if I know "my" mind, I would know it all....all life......all that exists, both manifest and unmanifested......

Is that the meaning of "knowing thyself"?......

But then a question came up automatically: How to look at the mind?......and this is the question we want to post today....for all of us.......

Images and Self

Our brains work with images.....is a thought an image?.....is the past an image?.....is a word an image?.......is the future (as projected from the present) an image?........

We project the image we call ego to protect us......and we end up being hurt because we have that image........

..........the floor is open for discussion.......

fractals and holograms

It was David Bohm (1917-1992) the one that spoke about the universe being "holographic", meaning that all parts partake of the same essence.
An atom is not essentially different to a galaxy....
Implied in this is the notion that all is one?.......

See this beautiful video about fractals


Beautiful word used by Bohm. To partake. According to the dictionary:

intransitive verb
1 : to take part in or experience something along with others ("partake in the revelry") ("partake of the good life")
2 : to have a portion (as of food or drink)
3 : to possess or share a certain nature or attribute ("The experience partakes of a mystical quality")
transitive verb : to take part in

synonyms: see "share"

Please, send your comment, and share (partake) your understanding.......