"passion had no need for converts/or to bind love to/time"-- last time I checked, Passion is not such a flighty shiver as you seem to show it. Passion does not possess a need, because passion is a vacuum in itself, a step above a mere necessity of ordinary time. It is a transformation of the dynamics of an individual's cognitive processes, a violent transvaluation of priorities and desired ends-- passion certainly never wants for converts if that is what you are saying, but that is because passion is by it's nature conversant with the manipulation of the human creature. And as for a love that ties itself not to time-- is this a Platonic love, or have you, as Byron noted of the romantic poets of antiquity, reduced a facet of human interaction of ponderous intricacy to but the limnings of an essentially base physical phenomena. where is the literary and artistic merit in a depiction of love that is devoid of any of the lurking excruciations which make it so exciting, so mysterious, and ultimately, so appealing to the reader-- who is presumably to emerge with an understanding expanded from what it was and not crammed into an impersonal idealization...
i am delighted to see that you remain youthful and vigilant
during these summer days. It is not my wish to disappoint you
yet i have never read one word of or about Byron, perhaps with your
divine view of acquiring knowledge you may be interested to read
about the vision of Tsongkhapa regarding passion and vacuums.
Next week i may very well be once again in America and shall think of you as i cross over the Tappan Zee !
I don't believe knowledge can so much be acquired as spiritual clarity squandered. I accumulate, or try to accumulate, only a vast store of evidences. Evidences of an enigmatic nature.
silent lotus
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"passion had no need for converts/or to bind love to/time"-- last time I checked, Passion is not such a flighty shiver as you seem to show it. Passion does not possess a need, because passion is a vacuum in itself, a step above a mere necessity of ordinary time. It is a transformation of the dynamics of an individual's cognitive processes, a violent transvaluation of priorities and desired ends-- passion certainly never wants for converts if that is what you are saying, but that is because passion is by it's nature conversant with the manipulation of the human creature. And as for a love that ties itself not to time-- is this a Platonic love, or have you, as Byron noted of the romantic poets of antiquity, reduced a facet of human interaction of ponderous intricacy to but the limnings of an essentially base physical phenomena. where is the literary and artistic merit in a depiction of love that is devoid of any of the lurking excruciations which make it so exciting, so mysterious, and ultimately, so appealing to the reader-- who is presumably to emerge with an understanding expanded from what it was and not crammed into an impersonal idealization...
dear Matt
i am delighted to see that you remain youthful and vigilant
during these summer days. It is not my wish to disappoint you
yet i have never read one word of or about Byron, perhaps with your
divine view of acquiring knowledge you may be interested to read
about the vision of Tsongkhapa regarding passion and vacuums.
Next week i may very well be once again in America and shall think of you as i cross over the Tappan Zee !
a warm smile
silent lotus
I don't believe knowledge can so much be acquired as spiritual clarity squandered. I accumulate, or try to accumulate, only a vast store of evidences. Evidences of an enigmatic nature.