Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 13

even more geworfenheit

I guess basically one wants to feel that one's life has amounted to more than just consuming products and generating garbage. I think that one likes to look back and say that one's done the best one can to make this a better place for others. You can look at it from this point of view: What greater motivation can there be than doing whatever one possibly can to reduce pain and suffering?
- Henry

more geworfenheit

Pali to English
river nadī (f.), gaṅgā (f.), ninnagā (f.), saritā (f.), savantī (f.), āpagā (f.)
river-bank nadīkūla (nt.), nadītīra (nt.)
river-basin gaṅgādhāra (m.)
river-bed nadītala (nt.)
river-god nadīdevatā (f.)
river-head nadīpabhava (m.)
river-month nadīmukha (nt.)
riverain gaṅgāsanna (adj.), gaṅgāyatta (adj.), nadītīravāsī (adj.)

French to English

rivière +‎ -ain "people living along

"a startling argument about the future of science and abo...

"a startling argument about the future of science and about the real basis of human relationships"

geworfenheit again

The reason for objecting quite generally to an attitude of greater detachment and for commending an embrace of at least some of what lies beyond the sphere of one's will has less to do with a benevolent concern for others than with a view about what, for lack of a better word, might be called psychic health. The desirability of this trait comes partly from its expression of our recognition that

geworfenheit

Pāṇaṃ na hane na ca ghātayeyya,
na cānujaññā hanataṃ paresaṃ,
sabbesu bhūtesu nidhāya daṇḍaṃ.
Ye thāvarā ye ca tasā santi loke.

One should not kill a living being,nor cause it to be killed,nor should one incite another to kill.Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.
Sutta Nipāta 2.396

empathic distress / empathic sociability

Trailer for WildWater, just released by Forge Films, feat...

Trailer for WildWater, just released by Forge Films, featuring psychologist and legendary expeditionary whitewater paddler Doug Ammons, editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Fred Norquist paddling onto the stone wall of Wall Creek in Colorado.

North Fork of the Payette, Idaho

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am t...

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.... Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat,

Sace labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃsaddhiṃ caraṃ sādhuvihāridh...

Sace labhetha nipakaṃ sahāyaṃ
saddhiṃ caraṃ sādhuvihāridhīraṃ,
abhibhuyya sabbāni parissayāni,
careyya tenattamano satīmā.

If for company you find a wise and prudent friendwho leads a good life,you should, overcoming all impediments,keep their company joyously and mindfully.
Dhammapada 23.328