"Diana"

                                      We say that "Truth HURTS" ...  

                      "The remembered image is not only benign, however;  [She can be] "the bad mother too---(1) the absent unattainable mother, against whom aggressive fantasies are directed, and from whom a counter-aggression is feared:   (2)  The hampering, forbidding, punishing mother;  (3) the mother who would hold to herself the growing child trying to push away; (4) the desired but forbidden mother whose presence is a lure to dangerous desire persists in the hidden lad of the adult child's recollections and is sometimes a greater force  ."

                        So now one word :  "She who MUST BE Obeyed .

Mistress

                           It's hard to miss the presence of >Miss< , meaning I have depicted Truth as a Female 'Entity'.   Anthropomorphism has a few "drawbacks" one of which is a masculine adoption of the Female Spectrum as 'Register' .   Here are two topic titles from Chapter II, Initiation, from Dr. Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces : 2. The Meeting With The Goddess   3. Woman As Temptress .   Here it is where the Female, Truth, CAN be viewed as "...the paragon of all the paragons of Beauty" and "...the incarnation of >the promise of Perfection> " .

                          If only She was 'just' that... if only .

Miss Justice

                                           Miss Justice is iconographically depicted as a BLINDFOLDED Female holding a scale in one hand while gripping an Excalibur by her side in the other .   We are told She is blindfolded so that She remains free of bias and prejudices that may occur when She views Evidence .   We have been taught "Seeing is believing" yet SHE is BLINDFOLDED so, according to this dictum, She therefore MUST rely on Her other senses to administer the Truth .   Also, She wields a Sword presumably to defend the Truth and to meet-out Exactions .    We can only HOPE that She removes Her blindfold when punitive measures are at stake .   

                      Here's the Question :  Can we TRUST Miss Justice ???

...sounds like bikini...

                                          What follows is the Definition of >Dakini< found in the Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen .   I offer this piece because Truth is difficult, no only to Imagine but to actualize in day-to-day Operations and Observations .   You will better appreciate the Significance once you read the Def .

                      Dakini  Sanskrit:  in Indian folk belief, a female demon to be found in the company of gods;  in Vajrayana Buddhism, the inspiring power of consciousness, usually depicted in iconography as a wrathful naked female figure .  ...  The Dakini has the task if integrating the powers liberated by the practitioner in the process of visualization ...  Thus the Dakini is a female figure that moves on the highest level or Reality--- her nakedness symbolizes knowledge of Truth revealed ."

Guide-posts

                                          I am loathe to continue the thinking of the previous day .   However, I must make an exception today because of the  Nature of Truth and the abject necessity to bind one's Self to Truth in the Effort to establish and maintain It as a foundation of Perceptual Reality .   There are four statements which act as guide-posts and billboards to the Seeker and Practitioner of Truth --  they are :

                                 1)    "We create our own Perceptual Reality"

                                  2)  "We act according to the way we see things"

                                  3)   "They became what they beheld"

                                   4)   "Life is what you make it" .

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 .