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13 février, 2003
 
Only a ripe fruit falls

That Osho guy looks like he was one wise dude. Reading this through made me eerily calm all of a sudden.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity -- only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti-attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.

In the West, the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people, to have strong egos -- because unless you have a strong ego, how can you survive? Life is a struggle; if you are egoless, you will be destroyed. Then who will resist? Who will fight? Who will compete? And life is a continuous competition. Western psychology says: Attain to the ego, be strong in it.

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker. [...]

When you know too much -- you have known the scriptures, you have known the past, the tradition, you have known all that can be known -- then suddenly you become aware of the futility of it all, suddenly you become aware that this is not knowledge. This is borrowed! This is not your own existential experience, this is not what you have come to know. Others may have known it, you have simply gathered it. Your gathering is mechanical. It has not arisen out of you, it is not a growth. It is just rubbish gathered from other doors, borrowed, dead.

Remember, knowing is alive only when you know, when it is your immediate, direct experience. But when you know from others it is just memory, not knowledge. Memory is dead.

When you gather much -- the riches of knowledge, scriptures, all around you, libraries condensed in your mind, and suddenly you become aware that you are just carrying the burden of others, nothing belongs to you, you have not known -- then you can drop it, you can drop all this knowledge. In that dropping a new type of ignorance arises within you. This ignorance is not the ignorance of the ignorant, this is how a wise man is, how wisdom is.

Only a wise man can say: I don't know. But in saying: I don't know, he is not hankering after knowledge, he is simply stating a fact. And when you can say with your total heart: I don't know, in that very moment your eyes become open, the doors of knowing are open. In that very moment when you can say with your totality; I don't know, you have become capable of knowledge.

This ignorance is beautiful, but it is attained through knowledge. It is poverty attained through richness. And the same happens with ego -- you can lose it if you have it.

(via Carnatic, one quite unusual site)


What do you think? []  links to this post    8:09:35 PM  
Just *who*'s in charge of Manhattan?

Another neat introduction to the science of networks by Duncan J. Watts.
What do you think? []  links to this post    2:31:59 PM  
Quick thoughts on emergent democracy

Here are my (mostly speculative and unrefined) thoughts on the questions Joi asked yesterday.

1. Groups with a sense of identity do form visibly chiefly through blog interaction. Witness for instance the recent formation of such entities as the group-forming communityAustin bloggers, EdBloggers, the Emergent Knowledge Management Research group, protest blogs in Venezuela, and the copyright term action reform group. However, I'm not sure that these could qualify as pure examples of emergence, because in each case, there are individuals who have crystallized a vision, assumed a leadership role, and made it happen through purposeful design. But it could be argued that something had already emerged before those visions occured to them.

2. Many of these groups arguably couldn't have formed as efficiently with other means of interaction, either because of signal/noise or interpersonal trust issues.

3. Awareness-raising / popular education groups have often been a successful way to enact change in democratic societies when money wasn't on the "right" side of the issue.

4. Blogs act to amplify weak signals and make them louder without external help. Someone writes out loud what others think privately, then the word spreads. Pre-blogging, weak signals used to stay weak because the people who had the basic awareness and could amplify them were not socially connected in any persistent way. Blogs enable weak ties to turn into strong ties when goals match between people in different social circles  / organizations / segments of society.

5. It is unclear exactly how to get people off their chairs and move from writing to more concrete action. (But see FaxYourMP and meetup, which are kinda moving in that direction.) However, communication generates awareness of issues and is a prerequisite for organized action.

6. Personal publishing can influence where customers put their money. I am influenced by Epinions reviewers in my buying decisions. This is perhaps a way to generate change.

7. The scaffolding is only beginning to be put together. Better connectivity tools appear every month. Many things remain to be done. It seems to me that if it gets easier and easier to find like minds, things are going to accelerate.

8. Nowadays people overtly link to people, e.g. in blogrolling lists. But they should perhaps also overtly link to ideas. Idearolling lists. With no taboo against new, original ideas like "Emergent democracy". Idearolling indicates which groups you're involved in on a fine-grained level and can potentially accelerate matchmaking.


What do you think? []  links to this post    9:22:23 AM  
Wikilog software

SnipSnap is "a free and easy to install Weblog and Wiki Software written in Java" (via George)
What do you think? []  links to this post    8:15:31 AM  
Collective detective on real-world problems

Holly from Collective Detective writes in response to this:

It would be an interesting experience to harness the collective mind and try to tackle some real world problems. I do agree with alf, defining a problem will be the hard part, though there are no shortage of real world puzzles and mysteries. I would like to volunteer space on Collective Detective to try this out, and invite anyone who is interested to email me.

Let's discuss any ideas we might have on this openly. I've just set up a channel for that.


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:57:07 AM  
A beat a day

BeatBlog. Cool concept. "All beats copyright phil jones. Feel free to sample and use them in your own mixes, composition, multi-media presentationss etc."

 


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:52:28 AM  
Do blogs really foster conversation?

Denham, Lilia and I are debating whether blogs are indeed suited for conversation or if, on the contrary, collective spaces are needed for true dialogue. Ton, you had something to say here, didn't you?
What do you think? []  links to this post    7:50:52 AM  
reversible.org

This looks a bit like a mutant sibling of the TopicExchange. Each page collects referers and trackbacks. Here's my page (I just made up the URL and it created the page).


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:43:08 AM  
Microcontent Research Center proposal

Liz and Alex's proposal is out. I wish them success!

This is a proposal to establish a Microcontent Research Center housed at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in collaboration with faculty at the University at Buffalo. The center would sponsor, collect, and disseminate research on the topic of microcontent publishing—in particular, weblogs (or “blogs”)—as a tool for collaborative teaching, learning, and research. It would sponsor regular workshops and colloquia on the topic of microcontent publishing in specific academic and pedagogical contexts, and would engage in collaborative activities with other US-based educational institutions, as well as organizations in other countries currently pursuing related research (specifically Norway, Austria, and Japan).


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:40:10 AM  


Flemming Funch: My Email wish list. Brilliant.
What do you think? []  links to this post    7:35:40 AM  
From my Radio to your Inbox

I'd like to offer an email option to readers of this weblog. I hear that Bloglet can provide such a service with Radio blogs. Has anybody tried it? Are there clear explanations on how it works somewhere? And which machine issues the mails, mine or Bloglet's?


What do you think? []  links to this post    7:34:52 AM  


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