In last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orientation Jack asked us the title question and in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class he referred to the fact that a temporal order is established every time we speak (or write?) due to the structures inherent in language. What a responsibility and what an opportunity this affords us!<\/p>\n
I am grateful to Jack for pointing us to the William Bronk poem under Language and Arts, in the Fields of Inquiry section of the CCI website. I had never heard of William Bronk and, recognising the value of discovering more about his work, I found this wonderful essay which has much to offer in terms of TSK:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/article\/177750<\/a><\/p>\n A passion for language has accompanied me all my life, fueled initially by my parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 respectful, enthusiastic and knowledgeable relationship with it. Today Jack invited us to examine a chapter of KTS in light of how Rinpoche employs the three linguistic powers of analysis<\/em>, interpretation<\/em> and creation<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0It occurs to me that an entire book could be devoted to an analysis of world literature examined through the prismatic lens of the TSK vision. In contemplating the question posed, I offer my current Top Three (which continues to be work-in-progress):<\/p>\n [i]<\/a> Richard Tarnas in his Passion of the Western Mind<\/em> emphasizes the importance of appreciating the world view which gives birth to each philosophical epoch, and not just the ideas in isolation. I remember Leonard Bernstein, during a lecture on music, demonstrating graphically how the infant, placing its lips in a sucking gesture and giving voice to that, eventually develops the sound \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmmmmm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 which opens eventually to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Natalie Goldberg, includes this in her Rules of Writing Practice <\/em>\u00c2\u00a0– \u00c2\u00a0I hugely recommend her book, Writing Down the Bones<\/em><\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> Could we perhaps share a list with each other of favoured authors or books? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m remembering a description in An Evil Cradling<\/em> in which Brian Keenan documented four and a half years of being held hostage in Lebanon. At one point, quite late into his captivity, he returns to his cell to find his guards have left him an orange. His description of encountering and eating that orange, more clearly paralleled experiences I had had on early meditation retreats than anything I have read before or since. Perhaps poetry best lends itself to this endeavour. My current number one is this regard is David Whyte. For novelists, I would point to Doris Lessing and David Mitchell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orientation Jack asked us the title question and in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class he referred to the fact that a temporal order is established every time we speak (or write?) due to the structures inherent in language. What a … Continue reading \n