05-08-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Na een aantal afleveringen, nu een epiloog van Native Perspectives.
Degenen die mijn postings en de reacties zo’n beetje gevolgd hebben, zal het niet verbazen dat er een einde is gekomen aan Native Perspectives. Wat mij betreft voortijdig.
Ik stel voor dat we de verleiding weerstaan te denken en schrijven in termen van schuldvraag.
Ik stel ook voor dat we proberen een open oog te hebben voor ieders ontwikkelingsgang en te blijven zoeken naar gelegenheden elkaar daarbij te versterken.
Pace e Bene,
Emil
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22-07-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
After displaying some of my thoughts and emotions in this blog, I’d like to fine tune what could be worth while blogging about.
So I’d like to take the liberty to invite the reader to share his/her ideas. In order to keep the postings focussed on what this blog aims to be about, some questions. Feel free to deviate, if you deem that appropriate.
- How do you appreciate the current state of affairs in the world
— What opportunities
— What threats
- Who are you
— Why are you on this planet
— How do you relate to other sentient beings
- What is your work
— Seeing other sentient beings in discomfort or pain, what do you desire
— Seeing other sentient beings in discomfort or pain, what do you do
This short list will do to get a picture, enabling an increase in quality of the content of this blog
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15-07-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Would be haiku
How joyful for Spirit to see life force blossoming
How painful for ego to see chances for blossoming not realized
Spirit is the pond in which occasions are ripples
Ego identifies with ripples: up with success and down with failure
With large ripples, mind and words fail to express what is experienced
Spirit, knowing separation is illusionary, remains placid
Ego seeking contact and seeing its evasive nature, scrambles for comfort
To the extent we embody Zorba the Buddha, we live life:
express pond and ripples perfectly
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08-07-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Look ma, almost no links!We’re on a mission from [and to] God.
But tend to get lost along the way.
One could see ‘fixing things’ as our overriding modus operandi.
(meer…)
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01-07-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Ich bin ein burgher.As I see it, cities and their leaders might be the right format regarding making this world a better place.
Take Gavin Newson of San Fransisco, Enrique Penalosa of Bogota or Gerd Leers of Maastricht.
An alternative route might be found at seasoned burghers, or burghers at sea, sailing a contemporary version of a junk rig.
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24-06-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
A Native Perspectives 101 [ upon much request, some imo clear lines; minimal use of links ]
I get emotional when I see children. Children of plants, animals, people, ideas.
In my direct surroundings this is common. When looking at it historically and when looking at current affairs, this is less common. I am hurt and puzzled.
Reasons for this pain I can see in shared values as well as in systems: stress, fear, ignorance, greed, anger, dependency, loneliness, comfort, laziness, turning a blind eye. An enormous force, generating suffering.
As I just read: ‘you’re on the table, or you’re on the menu’
In the experiencing of these, inside myself as well as outside, exploring and communicating gets slow and inconvenient.
At the same time I see many opportunities for a workable path towards significantly better life passing by my window every day. I try my best to share this enthusiasm. To share, to explore, to travel together for a while.
So perhaps this Native Perspectives blog is about Sangha.
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17-06-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Off late the term ‘
decadence‘ comes to mind.
It seems mainstream culture is unable / unwilling, to respond adequately to current pressing issues. This could be labelled as decadent, in the sense of a self destructive response. Respondents regarding this blog can file themselves under this category. In fact, it might prove illustrative to read the reactions to previous postings and compare them to the subject matter presented.
Fortunately there are other currents in society, which are open to a regime where potentials are stimulated to unfold.
As I see it, a regional format addressing contemporary icons has best chances for resilience to unfold.
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10-06-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Some acronyms for modern livingDuurzaamheid, Native Perspectives825
03-06-2008om 14:00 door Emil Möller
A focus on criticism and formal dimensions of utterings seems rampant in our society.
When looking for ways to address pressing issues, this exacerbates these issues .
What is needed is (i) clear thinking, followed by (ii) a dialogue with peers, aimed at improving on –ways towards- intended outcomes, resulting in (iii) effective action.
Some ideas that might offer relief: (meer…)
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27-05-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Our comfort zone is built upon energy. Most of it comes from fossils. Tinkering with energy, is inviting disruptions.
When big oil speaks about our energy future, paying attention is called for.
Interesting to note that the commercial domain speaks so eloquently and at the same time detached, about our future. Which includes theirs.
A case is made for cities to take the lead. Not national governments, NGO’s, individual people, nor actors in the commercial domain.
This case is interestingly synchronistic, now electric vehicles are positioned as harbingers of an all electric society. Where there’s abundant electricity, mobility and water for all.
When we would take the effort to make this idea happen by telling our city governors to realize their crucial role, we would be acting truly effectively in serving our comfort zone.
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20-05-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Some suggestions regarding tackling common institutional barriers in a transition towards a sustainable energy regime. And thus boost resilience
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13-05-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Confrontations between good and bad are of all ages. Hero’s need them. Although since post modernism this is a matter of perspective, to me some images are hard to look away from.
To me quite a number look like pieces of a jig saw puzzle. A 4D one. I like to assume that a larger picture regarding pressing current issues could be of interest. We all have pictures like this, ranging from implicit to explicit. Sharing them could help us survive.
The following pieces offered could be of interest in deblurring our minds intellectually and otherwise. An invitation into meaning, if you like.
| 1. | The picture, or perhaps more aptly: icon, of Frankenstein shows an important ingredient in our current iteration of lessons to be learned. It shows the mixed blessing of technology: a significant increase in standard of living for many, which has become an unguided missile, threatening all. At the same time it offers tremendous opportunities, when used properly. |
| 2. | Part of this unguidedness are our attempts to address our sense of lack. The more fruits of technology we can afford and –ever briefly- enjoy, the more we are confronted with the inadequacy of what we have achieved vis a vis what we set out for: the Good life. This results in boredom, killing time, seeking new thrills. |
| 3. | To round up for now: waking up to what we deep down know to be true would drive us mad. For with this knowledge of non duality, we would still have to live in this world. And be considered mad. Therefor we repress this knowledge, as we have learned from when we were very young and we didn’t want to stand alone. |
Good night and good luck.
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06-05-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” [Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes]
In an effort of adding something worth while to any discourse, I experience myself as being saturated in perspectives.
With anything I read, think, write there are always endless perspectives present. I can bring them to the fore of my consciousness, or leave them. Interweave them with perspectives of others or with perspectives I used to have, could have, should have, or should not have. My choice. Or is it?
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29-04-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
Under the adagium ‘less is more’, the following is an attempt to tempt the reader
‘One EV at a time’ gets us started:
With the next station becoming self evident:
| - | CCS being more expensive | (here) |
| - | nuclear taking too long | (here) |
| - | the sun delivering always | (here) |
Delivering abundant fresh water for all:
There’s beauty in simplicity
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22-04-2008om 13:00 door Emil Möller
As can be read, or at least deduced, anywhere:
current policies & perspectives don’t work.
It took me 3 years of nearly full time study
and hands on experience to reach this conclusion
We can continue our path of blogging, talking,
reporting and conferring and we’ll just add CO2 |
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