Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Zhu Xi
问：「太极不是未有天地之先有个浑成之物，是天地万物之理总名否？」曰：「太极只是天地万物之理。在天地言，则天地中有太极；在万物言，则万物中各有太极。未有天地之先，毕竟是先有此理。动而生阳，亦只是理；静而生阴，亦只是理。」问：「太极解何以先动而後静，先用而後体，先感而後寂？」曰：「在阴阳言，则用在阳而体在阴，然动静无端，阴阳无始，不可分先後。今只就起处言之，毕竟动前又是静，用前又是体，感前又是寂，阳前又是阴，而寂前又是感，静前又是动，将何者为先後？不可只道今日动便为始，而昨日静更不说也。如鼻息，言呼吸则辞顺，不可道吸呼。毕竟呼前又是吸，吸前又是呼。」
[Someone] asked: "Isn't Tai-ji the general name for a diffuse being that existed before there was a heaven and earth and that was the li of heaven, earth, and the myriad creatures?" [Zhu Xi] said: "Tai-ji is just the Li of heaven, earth, and the myriad creatures. Speaking with regard to heaven and earth, then within them there is [naturally] the Tai-ji. Speaking with regard to the myriad creatures, then within them there is the Tai-ji in each of them. In the final analysis, before there was either heaven or earth there was first this Li. In moving it produces Yang and yet is just a Li. In being still it produces Yin and yet is just a Li." [Someone] asked: In the explanation of the Tai-ji [Diagram], why does it mention movement (action) before stillness (inaction)? First function and then basis for function? First reaction and then silence (i.e., the silence in the heart from which all reactions come)?" [Zhu Xi] said: "Speaking in terms of Yin and Yang, the function lies with Yang and the basis for function lies with Yin. However, (alternations between) movement and stillness are without end, and Yin and Yang (alternations) are without a beginning. [So] it is impossible to differentiation between former and latter. For the moment I will address myself to the point of origination to speak of it. In the final analysis, before movement there is stillness, before function there is basis for function, before psychological reaction there is silence, before Yang there is Yin, yet before silence there is psychological reaction, and before stillness there is movement. What should be taken as prior and what as posterior? One cannot simply say that today's movement is taken to be the beginning and neglect to mention the stillness that was there yesterday. Take breathing for instance, if we say "hu xi" (exhale-inhale) then it sounds right; we can't say "xi-hu" (inhale-exhale) [because that sounds wrong to us]. [But] in the final analysis, before exhalation there in inhalation and before inhalation there is inhalation." [Recorded by the disciple Chun]
[Someone] asked: "Isn't Tai-ji the general name for a diffuse being that existed before there was a heaven and earth and that was the li of heaven, earth, and the myriad creatures?" [Zhu Xi] said: "Tai-ji is just the Li of heaven, earth, and the myriad creatures. Speaking with regard to heaven and earth, then within them there is [naturally] the Tai-ji. Speaking with regard to the myriad creatures, then within them there is the Tai-ji in each of them. In the final analysis, before there was either heaven or earth there was first this Li. In moving it produces Yang and yet is just a Li. In being still it produces Yin and yet is just a Li." [Someone] asked: In the explanation of the Tai-ji [Diagram], why does it mention movement (action) before stillness (inaction)? First function and then basis for function? First reaction and then silence (i.e., the silence in the heart from which all reactions come)?" [Zhu Xi] said: "Speaking in terms of Yin and Yang, the function lies with Yang and the basis for function lies with Yin. However, (alternations between) movement and stillness are without end, and Yin and Yang (alternations) are without a beginning. [So] it is impossible to differentiation between former and latter. For the moment I will address myself to the point of origination to speak of it. In the final analysis, before movement there is stillness, before function there is basis for function, before psychological reaction there is silence, before Yang there is Yin, yet before silence there is psychological reaction, and before stillness there is movement. What should be taken as prior and what as posterior? One cannot simply say that today's movement is taken to be the beginning and neglect to mention the stillness that was there yesterday. Take breathing for instance, if we say "hu xi" (exhale-inhale) then it sounds right; we can't say "xi-hu" (inhale-exhale) [because that sounds wrong to us]. [But] in the final analysis, before exhalation there in inhalation and before inhalation there is inhalation." [Recorded by the disciple Chun]
Friday, September 9, 2011
What I learned about this week: Oscilloscopes
For the past 2 or 3 days in class we have been learning how to operate oscilloscopes.
Here's a few pics.
Friday, September 2, 2011
More Quotes
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. - Max Planck
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."
— Erwin Schrödinger
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. - Erwin Schrodinger
"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else."
— Erwin Schrödinger
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. - Erwin Schrodinger
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