cantabile
@cantabile
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Temmuz 2017 tarihinde katıldı
''Batı kültürü etkisindeki düşünce tarzında bize, dikkatimizi incelediğimiz konu üzerinde yoğunlaştırmamız ve bu konu dışındaki şeylere dikkatimizi yönelterek dağıtmamamız öğretilir. Krishnamurti'ye göre, ''...Bundan çok farklı bir dikkat daha vardır ki bu tür dikkatte zihin hiçbir şeyi dışlamaz, dışarıda bırakmaz. Bu sayede, zihin dışlamaya çalıştığı şeylerin direnciyle karşılaşmayacağı için daha güçlü bir dikkat gerçekleşir. Başka düşüncelerin zihnimize girmesini önlemek için, bilerek ya da bilmeyerek, zihnin çevresinde bir direnç duvarı ördüğünüzde zihninizin bütünü değil bir bölümü çalışıyor demektir.'' Krishnamurti'nin bu sözleri bazen hayat yanı başımızdan geçip giderken nasıl olup da göremediğimizi açıklar nitelikte. Çünkü hayat, ayrıntı olarak bakmaya şartlandırıldığımız için göz ardı ettiğimiz yerlerde aslında.''
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''It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future— sab specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.
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I once had a dramatic demonstration of the close link between the loss of faith in the future and this dangerous giving up. F , my senior block warden, a fairly wellknown composer and librettist, confided in me one day: "I would like to tell you something, Doctor. I have had a strange dream. A voice told me that I could wish for something, that I should only say what I wanted to know, and all my questions would be answered. What do you think I asked? That I would like to know when the war would be over for me. You know what I mean, Doctor—for me! I wanted to know when we, when our camp, would be liberated and our sufferings come to an end."
"And when did you have this dream?" I asked.
"In February, 1945," he answered.
It was then the beginning of March.
"What did your dream voice answer?"
Furtively he whispered to me, "March thirtieth."
When F told me about his dream, he was still full of hope and convinced that the voice of his dream would be right. But as the promised day drew nearer, the war news which reached our camp made it appear very unlikely that we would be free on the promised date. On March twentyninth,
F suddenly became ill and ran a high temperature. On March thirtieth, the day his prophecy had told him that the war and suffering would be over for him, he became delirious and lost consciousness. On March thirtyfirst, he was dead. To all outward appearances, he had died of typhus.
Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man—his courage and hope, or lack of them—and the state of immunity
''Those of us who saw the film called Resurrection—taken from a book by Tolstoy—years ago, may have had similar thoughts. Here were great destinies and great men. For us, at that time, there was no great fate; there was no chance to achieve such greatness. After the picture we went to the nearest cafe, and over a cup of coffee and a sandwich we forgot the strange metaphysical thoughts which for one moment had crossed our minds. But when we ourselves were confronted with a great destiny and faced with the decision of meeting it with equal spiritual greatness, by then we had forgotten our youthful resolutions of long ago, and we failed.''
''An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature. But there is also purpose in that life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. A creative life and a life of enjoyment are banned to him. But not only creativeness and enjoyment are meaningful. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.''
''The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
.... Seen from this point of view, the mental reactions of the inmates of a concentration camp must seem more to us than the mere expression of certain physical and sociological conditions. Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.''