Comments - INTEGRAL ART - Gaia Community2024-03-29T14:58:51Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A306&xn_auth=no“Historical map showing the…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-04-02:5313775:Comment:166212014-04-02T09:02:21.522ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p style="text-align: right;"><br></br><br></br>“Historical map showing the settlement</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">which later became known as Chenjiagou.”</p>
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<p>Located in the centre of Henan河南 province in Central China,…</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><br/><br/>“Historical map showing the settlement</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">of Qing Feng Ling (bottom right corner),</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">which later became known as Chenjiagou.”</p>
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<p>Located in the centre of Henan河南 province in Central China, Chenjiagou</p>
<p>陈家沟 is not an obvious tourist destination. It is an unremarkable rural</p>
<p>village like many others in China. Yet it draws thousands of visitors</p>
<p>throughout the year, as this village is acknowledged to be the</p>
<p>birthplace of Taijiquan. Often referred to simply as the “Taiji Village”,</p>
<p>Chenjiagou is surrounded by the four large cities of Xinxiang新乡 on</p>
<p>the east, Zhengzhou郑州 on the south, Luoyang洛阳 on the west</p>
<p>and Jiaozuo焦作 on the north. It is acknowledged as one of the most</p>
<p>significant martial arts locations in China, alongside the Shaolin Temple</p>
<p>少林寺 and the Wudang mountains武当山.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Taijiquan, one of the major branches of Chinese Martial Arts, have</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>been </em></strong><strong><em>“practiced here for generations and continues to this day.”<br/><br/></em>Excerpt From: “</strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=799081786786741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Essence of Taijiquan</a> 太極之粹.epub.”<br/>by David Gaffney & Davidine Siaw-Voon Sim.<em><br/><br/> <br/></em></p>
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<h2>“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.“…</h2>
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<h2>“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.“ ~ Robert Bresson</h2>
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<div id="comment59833_div"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-zen" target="_blank">ART</a> is your <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/main/search/search?q=art+of+zen&page=3" target="_blank">particular telling of reality</a></em></strong>. When we talked about </span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mindfulness" target="_blank">letting go of preconceived ideas</a></strong><strong> </strong></em><strong>and drawing what you actually</strong></span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><strong>see</strong><span>, Bernhard </span>compared it to a night out with one of his friends. </span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><span>While Bernhard might </span>just recount that night by saying, “We went </span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><span>out and had some food and </span>went home”, his friend might have </span></div>
<div><span class="font-size-4"><span>noticed a lot of interesting details that </span>Bernhard didn’t, and <em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/introduction" target="_blank">tell a story</a></strong> with those details in a way that’s hopefully both </em><em>interesting, sometimes "<strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/action-of-tai-chi" target="_blank">moving</a></strong>" and <strong>occasionally <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hilarious</span></strong></em></span>.</div>
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<div><a href="http://zenhabits.net/pixar/" target="_blank"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Same experience, different interpretation, different details</strong></span>.</a></div> Acting to Ease Others’ Suff…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-05-11:5313775:Comment:140922013-05-11T07:11:19.074ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<h3><strong><a href="http://zenhabits.net/compassion/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Acting to Ease Others’ Suffering</a></strong></h3>
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<p>I can also act in ways that I believe are compassionate to the people</p>
<p>right in front of me, and you might think, “Isn’t that compassion for</p>
<p>others?” But really, it’s compassion for myself in another form. </p>
<p><strong>It’s another self-compassion method</strong>.</p>
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<p>Imagine the pain you feel when you see…</p>
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<h3><strong><a href="http://zenhabits.net/compassion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Acting to Ease Others’ Suffering</a></strong></h3>
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<p>I can also act in ways that I believe are compassionate to the people</p>
<p>right in front of me, and you might think, “Isn’t that compassion for</p>
<p>others?” But really, it’s compassion for myself in another form. </p>
<p><strong>It’s another self-compassion method</strong>.</p>
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<p>Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering —</p>
<p>the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is</p>
<p>suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering in </p>
<p>themselves.</p>
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<p><strong>So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself</strong></p>
<p><strong>when you see someone else suffering?</strong></p>
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<p>You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way</p>
<p>to reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other</p>
<p>person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve </p>
<p>reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see</p>
<p>them suffer. <strong>That’s a powerful thing</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of</strong></p>
<p><strong>compassion. </strong><strong>But that’s the only kind there is.</strong></p>
<p></p> A "Big Picture" View: Integr…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-10:5313775:Comment:113072012-06-10T09:50:27.503ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<li><strong>A "Big Picture" View:</strong> Integral Theory is often referred to as a "theory of everything", in that it allows us to see the patters that connect all the various dimensions of our lives, offering the most comprehensive and fully integrated view of reality that we have ever seen. Which is important now more than ever—as our planet gets smaller, our problems get bigger and demand a new level of thinking and problem solving... or else we risk making things even…</li>
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<li><strong>A "Big Picture" View:</strong> Integral Theory is often referred to as a "theory of everything", in that it allows us to see the patters that connect all the various dimensions of our lives, offering the most comprehensive and fully integrated view of reality that we have ever seen. Which is important now more than ever—as our planet gets smaller, our problems get bigger and demand a new level of thinking and problem solving... or else we risk making things even worse.</li>
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<li><strong>A Greater Capacity for Perspective: </strong>One of the core insights that comes alive with integral consciousness is just how fundamental perspective is to our universe. It is literally the stuff dreams are made out of—not to mention thoughts, relationships, behaviors, interactions, and everything else that has ever existed. Folks at an integral stage of development are able to better understand, navigate, and participate with all different kinds of perspective, allowing us to truly see ourselves, each other, and our world with more wisdom, openness, and inquisitiveness than ever before.</li>
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<li><strong>True But Partial: </strong>Due to the power of perspective, the integral stage is the very first to honor and include the values from all other stages that come before it. This is something altogether new—if there is one thing these previous stages all had in common, it’s the belief that their stage represents the "correct" way of behaving and seeing the world, and all the others are completely false. We can see this playing itself out every day in our various culture wars as the religious fundamentalists, the rational materialists, and the pluralistic postmodernists all continue to insist that their values are the only "true" values, and everyone else’s values are either delusional or straight-up demonic. Integral awareness offers us the cognitive and communicative tools we need to begin relieving the extraordinary tension and even violent antagonism that exists between these often conflicting sets of values, allowing us to see wholeness where we may once have only seen brokenness.</li>
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<li><strong>It’s Evolution, Baby!</strong> Evolution is not done with us yet. On the contrary, it is still very much alive in humanity's tireless quest for greater meaning, greater purpose, and greater sophistication. It is this evolutionary impulse that keeps us moving forward, allowing modern science to emerge from magic and superstition, modern medicine from leeching and bloodletting, chemistry from alchemy, psychology from phrenology, astronomy from astrology, democracy from theocracy, and the list goes on. Every field of human inquiry continues to move through wave upon wave of increasing accuracy, fidelity, and applicability. Integral is the next wave, and is already dramatically enhancing each of these fields—art, medicine, psychology, spirituality, sustainability, leadership, while also showing how they all fit together in a seamless totality of knowledge and understanding.</li>
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<li><strong>The Rebirth of Spirit:</strong> One of the greatest contributions integral consciousness is making to the world is the reclamation of the spiritual. As we just mentioned, we have allowed almost every other field of human inquiry to mature out of the magic and mythic backwaters. But why not spirituality? To this day, spirituality seems to belong mostly to the zealots, the fanatics, and the charlatans, and is largely dismissed by the modern rational world (to the detriment of us all). But spirituality is not the<em>product</em> of superstition, magic, and mythology—it just simply has not been allowed to evolve beyond superstitious, magical, and mythological interpretations. And it is these interpretations—not spirituality itself—that make easy targets for writers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris.<br/><br/>Because spirituality has not been given an opportunity to shift from belief to direct experience and truly thrive in the rational and postmodern world, we have been a bit too eager to eliminate the dogma, the myths, and the "us vs. them" ethnocentricity, and as a result have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Luckily, integral spirituality saves the baby. Not only does an integral approach to spirituality offer a way to evolve each of the major spiritual traditions (e.g. Integral Christianity, Integral Buddhism, Integral Judaism, Integral Sufism, etc.), but it also allows for the most inspiring and fruitful <em>interfaith </em>dialogues we have ever seen, as we continue to explore how the experiences of awakening, enlightenment, and atonement have been interpreted from person to person, culture to culture, all across the ages—and then reinterpreting these experiences to not just survive today’s 21st-century world, but to deeply enrich it as well. These are without a doubt the most intelligent and insightful discussions of spirituality you will find anywhere on the planet.<br/><br/>Most importantly, integral spirituality helps to distill the wisdom, transmission, and transformative potential contained within these ancient traditions, bringing more freedom, consciousness, and compassion to your life than you ever thought possible.</li>
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<p>It is truly an extraordinary time to be alive. We are witnessing the emergence of something historic: the rise of integral consciousness. This is our very best shot to create a more peaceful and sustainable world, to awaken from the violent slumber of humanity’s adolescence, and to align ourselves with the future of evolution in this backward corner of the Milky Way. We know that we are only barely scratching the surface in terms of the contributions integral consciousness has to make to the world—but as the integral movement continues to gain momentum around the world, we can’t help but to feel a little more optimistic than we did even just a few years ago.</p>
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<p>Ken Wilber</p> A Brief History of Integral:…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-10:5313775:Comment:110262012-06-10T09:42:56.904ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://integrallife.ontraport.net/c/2/4104/6561773/5/779/62974/1339261940" target="_blank"><font color="#c60">A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far</font></a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://integrallife.ontraport.net/c/2/4104/6561773/5/779/62974/1339261940" target="_blank"><font color="#c60">A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far</font></a></strong></p>