Miss Kwote

                                                I must assert that Truth and Beauty are Psychological "Realms" and  I  insert "Domain" as  equal  to  Realm  DESPITE  its  OBVIOUS   difference  { authorial prerogative } .   There are these :  The Realm of Truth --- The Realm of Beauty .    I BELIEVE we MUST 'reside' in the Realm of Truth that we may also Reside in the Realm of Beauty .   By doing so we can be comfortable with Dr. Joseph Campbell's  "MAJESTY OF BEING"  and  I supplement   THAT with my own : "Live the MIRACLE " .   Corny I know ---it's all I got .

Haas and Wilhelm

                                           I consider Academia as an island {"I" Land --- "Eye" Land} Paradise in the Ocean of Despair, Suffering , Anguish and Torment--- not just a "safe haven" or "shelter in the Storm" ;  but rather an Impenetrable Fortress of Creative Human RESOLVE .   

                      I contend that the rigorous pursuit of Intellectual Properties is MENTAL NOURISHMENT--- that when one feeds the Mind >it< POWERS the Body .   Engaging in Academic Freedoms is as richly rewarding as the passive Pleasure derived from Listening to Music .   As I have noted elsewhere = Music HEALS !   

                      So it is that Listening (Reading) to Lectures is the same as Listening to Music-- both of which not only provided needed Nourishment but Healing Medicines as well .

                       Here it is where we have the Nature of Mr. Haas's Home and the Lectures delivered by Hellmut Wilhelm .

  

CHANGE

                                             I must, perforce, introduce my Gentle Readers with this 'Preface' from a monograph I have TREASURED my entire Academic Career .   The title of this "little volume" is CHANGE .   So---- "Here goes" .

                                     "This little volume consists of lectures given in Peking in the winter of 1943 .   This was a time when the war in China had been going on for almost six years and Peking was under Japanese Occupation, a time when all creative forces seemed frozen and darkness ruled the day .  During that period there was a group of German-speaking people in the city who kept apart from the activities of the German communitity and everything connected with it .   The group found a center in the home of William Haas .   Wilhelm Haas is a man with the courage of perseverance; even it the most hopeless situations he never yielded to despair .  "    

American Mutilation

                                              We are in the tumultuous midst of an American MUTILATION of World Order - a something that hideously resembles HITLER'S >>>CHOICE<<< to wage WAR that he may satisfy the Darkest Urges of his gruesome-ly DERANGED Psyche .   We {as in "I"} awaken each morning NOT to the Promise of Positive Potential, but to the FEAR, DREAD and LOATHING of a MADMAN `gone the way of! Adolph Hitler, which, at its most bizarre, is actually a DENIGRATION of Hitler who BELIEVED he was Championing the Cause of his People, trump's WARS have but ONE Purpose =  to satisfy the PERSONAL Appetite for UNLIMITED POWER   AT THE EXPENSE OF MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF INNOCENTS AROUND THE ENTIRE PLANET . 

The Superior Man

                                                            Ku /  Work On What Has Been Spoiled

                   " ( . . . )  It is the same with debasing attitudes and fashions ;  they corrupt human society .  To do away with this corruption the superior man must regenerate society ... .   The superior man must first remove stagnation by stirring up public opinion, --- ... and must then strengthen and tranquilize the character of the people... --- ."   I Ching or Book of Changes 

                   EZ-er said than done ,    BUT  there are NO   'Other Options' if we are to survive trump .

The Sage

                                                          "He does not serve kings and princes,

                                                            Sets himself higher goals . .  

          Not every man has an obligation to mingle in the affairs of the world .  There are some men who are developed to such a degree that they are justified in letting the world go its own way and in refusing to enter public life with a view of reforming it .   But this does not imply a right to remain idle or to sit back and merely criticize .   Such a withdrawal is justified only when we strive to realize the higher aims of Humankind .   For although the sage remains distant fro the turmoil of daily life, he creates incomprarable Human Values for the Future ."

                                                                      I Ching

                                                                      Book of Changes

               This is me .

Pirsig

                                                    "What you like is bad, or at  leased you was bad, or at least unimportant in comparison to other things ?  {{It seemed the quintessence of 'squareness' he was fighting. }}   Little children were trained  ot to do "just what they liked" but... but what...?   Of course !!!  What OTHERS LIKED .  And what others ?  Parents, teachers supervisors, policemen, officials, kings dictators .   ALL AUTHORITIES .  When you are trained to despise "just what you like"then, of course, you become a much  more obedient servant of others ---> a GOOD slave .  When you learn NOT to do "just what you like" then the System LOVES you " .

                                                                      Robert Pirsig

                                                                      Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance