{"id":989,"date":"2016-12-19T02:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/draft-for-introducing-cross-culture-wisdom"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T08:24:16","slug":"draft-for-introducing-cross-culture-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/12\/19\/draft-for-introducing-cross-culture-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft for Introducing Cross Culture Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Editor: This is already dated. And contains real problems, but those lie outside the scope of intent for readership so ok. The point is more how to guide an introduction to something which people are willing to understand, but can\u2019t imagine doing so without condensation. [most people should rather admit to knowing as much about .., as about devas]]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">B\/s:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Explain how we need wisdom for seeing others\u2019 wisdom<\/li>\n<li>Illustrate<\/li>\n<li>Methodology\n<ol>\n<li>Create flimsy wisdom (intuition) based on a theoretical paradigm<\/li>\n<li>Explain concepts using this new wisdom capacity\n<ol>\n<li>This is how AR explains <em>Hitbonenut<\/em>, and Levinas reading<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Emotionally (catharsis) trepidation at applying to non-literate wisdom<\/li>\n<li>Illustrate\n<ol>\n<li>E.g. of WHAT NOT e.g. B creation story is like <em>tzitz\u05d5m<\/em> of <em>Adam<\/em> <em>Kadmon<\/em><\/li>\n<li>E.g. of WHAT FEASIBLE e.g. wisdom of topological-spiralling<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Appendix: Limitation: Can\u2019t apriori differentiate similar narratives, since they all obviously create webs\u2026 rather need to see how narratives are used<\/li>\n<li>Final words\n<ol>\n<li>Why learn the middle path? Because it is an offer, not because its physics are the strongest<\/li>\n<li>Why learn another? Because you don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know\n<ol>\n<li>Can we learn another? If you are lost, first know where your roots are? Else what compass? You were conditioned from before your birth. Maybe your roots are older than you, whereas new roots you will discover not from a continuous route, and v hard to achieve<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Communication is a harmony of meanings. When we communicate, the meanings in your world, and in my world, cohere within our communication\u2019s sphere. When we fail to communicate, our meanings are in disharmony; what I think you mean doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>The Abrahamic, Indus, and Confucian religions especially are well represented in cross-lingual communication. But the rate of success of these communications is not perfect &#8211; as proven by our difficulty to appreciate the significance of meaning in other cultures &#8211; and limited by the suitability of the channels and illumination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>channels<\/em> are knowing which parts of your culture would fascinate me. The <em>illumination<\/em> is the sufficiency of description relative to the viewer\u2019s occipital adoitness (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">E.g. I think Buddhism fascinates Judaism when it shows it the experiential Janna derived from Sati (wisdom from mindfulness).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">E.g. Judaism fascinates West when it shows it how it reads whilst resisting generalizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the <em>thing<\/em> is knowing how to show it so that it clicks. 3II<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Editor: This is already dated. And contains real problems, but those lie outside the scope of intent for readership so ok. 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