OUR CLAN ANIMAL our song
INSPIRATIONS
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Mathematical Circles
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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech
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Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill
them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in
themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing
until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL" St. Augustine
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Dass Guided Imagery
NM
blogs for the week due by
11:59 PM the previous Sunday.
ETHICS GOALS
[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”
our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre
[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.
OTHER GOALS
[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
TODAY'S TOPICS: THE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN ETHICS
art designed to inspire compassion:
the Pieta on the altar at Notre Dame de Paris
relic inspiring compassion: the crown of thorns
ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris
2-4 Christian Bible LEADER: HAWK
180-182 Gospel of Luke
183 The Stations of the Cross
184 John 13+15
184-185 Paul 1 Corinthians 13
185 Colossians 3
186 1 John 4
187 John 8: Tower Motto
188-190 “Last Supper”+ “Vegetarianism?”
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:choose weekend dates for Taniguchi and Spirit Animal moments; Einstein statement, Guided Imagery,quiz, METTA EXPERIENCIAL EXERCISE; discussion of blog and readings
LOOKING AHEAD:
[2-8 Chinese New Year: Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist]
2-9 Koran Sufism Rumi 1st half b&w; QUIZ; LEADER: LEOPARD
191-195 Islam and animals
196 Animals in Muslim Culture
197-199 Cairo journalist
200-219 Quaran abstracts
220-226 Quaran selections
227 Mysticism
228 Sufism
229 Rumi
230-238 A few Rumi poems
[2-10 Ash Wednesday Christian]
2-11 Paradise Regained 2nd half b&w; QUIZ; LEADER: ARMADILLO
295-296 Isaiah
297 Virgil
298-301 Fourth Eclogue
apocrypha [not included in Bible]
302-303 Acts of Philip,
303-304 Pseudo-‐Matthew
305-306 Blake
307 “On Another's Sorrow”
308 “Tyger” and “London”
309-310 “Night”;
310-312 “Little Girl Lost”;
312-313 “Little Girl Found”
314-315 Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom
316-317 Yann Martel
318-328 Life of Pi: “Zoo”; religion; zoomorphism
329-337 Kipling, “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat”
[2-14 St. Valentine's Day Christian]
2-16 P3a due online
