i associate precision with coldness.
cold precision.
cold.
precision.
what does warm precision look like?
can precision be friends with warmth?
(we already know that warmth likes to be friends with everyone.)
for me and my Practice, i'm fixin' to find out.
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warm precision is kapwa married to loob and pakiramdam! muki, i enjoyed you here. looked up steiner and concluded that his philosophy sounds a lot like sikolohiyang pilipino. what if we can 'brand' our own knowledge and have no need for outside validation...
thanks for this, Sis. have been mulling it over (and over). back in 2006, when i first became interested in the teachings of Steiner (and very much still in the throes of my own decolonization process), i remember thinking, "aww, shit. another dead guy from europe shaping the way i think. like i need this..."
i even balked at some of the translations of his lectures, particularly at the word "savage." in fact, i remember distinctly, the moment when 1904 world's fair images floated into my head and heart, so much so that i put the reading down, felt my heart actually harden towards him (to protect myself), and decided i didn't want to pick it up again.
and then over the years, his teachings and works have kept finding their way to me. somewhat reluctantly, i decided to attend some lectures, then some conferences, and slowly by slowly (but cautiously) dip my toe back in the water. i'm comfortably waist high now, and there is SO much in his teachings that resonates with me. and there is some of his stuff that leaves me scratching my head, saying, "hmm, i don't know about that."
there are some that maintain that Steiner is racist. when you google him a lot of that stuff comes up. me, i'd like to do more reading, but my guts say, i don't think so. i recently finished a biography of his that quotes him, early on, in the flyleaves, saying, "Those who go their own way, as I do, will certainly be subjected to many misunderstandings."
he was a great lover of humanity.
and he was a remarkable thinker.
and his devotion to serving and the sacrifices he willingly made are deeply admirable.
i'm often left wondering why more folks don't know about him and his work.
i've come to believe that the Source from which Steiner articulated his ideas is the same one that Ver articulated sikolohiyang pilipino. that, at the core, they share a Universality. and, i am grateful for their different expressions. and, i am grateful for my ability to recognize their core sameness.
i'm surprised because for the first time, i can actually grasp (somewhat fleetingly, to be sure) the concept of transcending race. it can be a slippery slope. and, it is a necessary one to master, methinks. i don't say this without recognizing the recklessness that it has been said before ('educated' bleeding heart white 'liberal' fuzzy new agey mean-to-do-well-but-so-don't folks come to mind).
i remember my Teacher saying something about someday we must be willing to transcend race. it was 2005ish, and she was giving one of her incidental "kitchen Dharma talks" one night after dinner. i heard her say it, felt my resistance to it, and filed it away.
i'm amused that i've come full circle (hee) with it.
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