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Dôgen, o fundador da Sôtô Zen, do Japão, enfatizava que não devemos pensar que a meditação é uma maneira de nos tornarmos um Buda, pois isso é como tentar polir um tijolo até que ele se torne um espelho. Ele deixou claro que o treinamento meditativo não é um meio para um fim, como em algumas outras tradições de meditação budistas, mas que deve ser feito pelas suas vantagens intrínsecas, porque o treinamento e o despertar são um só: apenas sentar exibe e aos poucos revela a natureza inata do Buda, cuja manifestação precisamos apenas permitir. Como se diz no Sūtra da Plataforma: "A própria prática do Buda — ela mesma é Buda".
— Peter Harvey
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“Confucianism survived all these transitions. There is no reason to believe that what is happening today is not another transition.” – Wing-tsit Chan, 1953.
This is an extremely rational paragraph. One would think that losing its institutions would be a negative, but the Confucian tradition was never really born from institutions, and getting wrapped up in the imperial bureaucracy of the Yuan-Ming-Qing period created an awkward situation where if that bureaucracy was blamed for ills, then Confucianism would be too. That happened! Now that the bureaucratic system is gone, Confucianism is free to be its authentic self, morph again, etc. As I keep saying, Chinese socialism seems an awful lot like economic Confucianism? This is how your own shadow sneaks up on you.
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The Sun is moving from 3° to 4° Scorpio today.
"In the third degree of Scorpio, a man stands idle. It signifies a wicked an idle person.
In the fourth degree, a lyre brings joy. It signifies a joyful, happy person."
Johannes Angelus in Esoptron Astrologikon (1488)
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We use ‘fortnight’ for a period of two weeks (fourteen nights), but did you know we used to say “se’nnight” for a week (seven nights)?
I came across this lovely old word while looking for more examples of the Kentish dialect word “looker.” A little linguistic treasure!
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276 years apart.
China’s oldest tree — a 4,500-year-old cypress at Songyang Academy in Dengfeng, Henan — as painted by the Qing Emperor Qianlong, and as it stands today.
More than two millennia earlier, Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) granted it the title “Second Great General.”
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Li Zongren is a fascinating character, he admired European fascism and was quite autistic about overly-analyzing the Japanese army and their strategy and why they lose, repeatedly tried to usurp Chiang, and in final years returned to mainland. He would have loved Hearts of Iron.
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No, we have no idea when Chaucer died, or where. It is perhaps the greatest mystery Chaucerians (including me) have been trying to solve for generations. He disappears from official record in 1400, which is deeply strange in itself. I can recommend a good book on the topic ...
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If, like me, you read a lot of academic pre-war books, you’ll not only see lots of ヲ, but a mix of kanji and katakana only with no hiragana whatsoever. I think hiragana used to be reserved for more personal and informal writing. For official/formal stuff, it was strictly kanji and katakana only.
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Every day of the week in Filipino is the Spanish equivalent with a different spelling (other than Sunday which is linggo), however we have original Filipino (specifically Bisaya I believe) words for the days and months!
They're just no longer in use.
