{"id":9999,"date":"2010-01-03T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.harald-bluechel.com\/into-the-new-year-2010-ghost-dog-stoizism-the-steppenwolf\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T10:20:08","slug":"into-the-new-year-2010-ghost-dog-stoizism-the-steppenwolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.harald-bluechel.com\/en\/into-the-new-year-2010-ghost-dog-stoizism-the-steppenwolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the new year 2010: GHOST DOG &#8211; STOIZISM &#8211; THE STEPPENWOLF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00fchlungsborn, 21.30<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GHOST DOG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dignity and meaning<\/p>\n<p>The dignity of animals (pigeons, bears, dogs), when will they finally get their personal rights?<\/p>\n<p>The poverty, ugliness and lack of dignity in human cities<\/p>\n<p>The dignity of people (Perline, Loui, Raymond, Spanish boat builder, Indian, Kong-Fu bum, RZA)<\/p>\n<p>The importance of books,<\/p>\n<p>Passing on knowledge\/teaching from person to person, from generation to generation<\/p>\n<p>Making a fundamental decision based on a fundamental situation\/ borderline experience,<\/p>\n<p>To devote oneself with dedication and full attention to something, if one can recognize a meaning in this thing for oneself (Ghost Dog: the teaching of the samurai \/ Perline: the books \/ Raymond: selling ice cream \/ Spaniards: building a boat on the roof&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>the non-dependence, the non-purchasability, the non-positivity, choosing one&#8217;s own path and accepting the consequences of this decision:<\/p>\n<p><em>if it rains heavily, you can crouch down and move from house to house or you can walk upright and calmly. in both cases you will get wet, but in the second case you have made a clear decision in advance and are aware of what will happen. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>do an important thing with ease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>do a simple, everyday thing with great seriousness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People in groups feel strong and safe (mafia thugs, hip-hop gangs, white-trash types), dignity lies with the loners.<\/p>\n<p>The dispossessed (Ghost Dog gets everything he needs according to the situation, his possessions are concentrated on what he considers fundamentally important) is not poor, but rather non-dependent; those who strive for or have possessions appear stereotypical, gutted, dependent and poor in a much more fundamental way (white-trash woman whose red Cadillac is stolen).<\/p>\n<p>The Book of Rashomon<\/p>\n<p>The music<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n<p>The meditation \/ exercise<\/p>\n<p>The unassailability<\/p>\n<p>The respect<\/p>\n<p>Full sovereignty, even if one defines oneself as a &#8220;follower&#8221; in obedience to a doctrine of one&#8217;s own free will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stoicism \/ Epicurus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The unhappiness of people is that they want to possess things that are beyond their means and do not want to endure unhappiness that they cannot change.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, take responsibility for the things that are within your sphere of influence and over which you have personal control. Do the best you can in this area, devote your full attention to these things. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Steppenwolf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds, thousands of souls (ICHS) live in one person<\/p>\n<p>Not just &#8220;two souls beating in your chest&#8221;, but hundreds, thousands&#8230;old and young&#8230;see all these souls as little figurines that you can rearrange at any time, constantly reconfiguring themselves in new constellations within the system that bears your name.<\/p>\n<p>Much human suffering results from the erroneous conviction that we have a &#8220;single, consistent&#8221; soul in the presence of a single body. Only a few register a soul dualism within themselves, which they try to analyze (e.g. &#8220;human&#8221; &amp; &#8220;wolf&#8221;, but this is also far too short-sighted&#8230;). <\/p>\n<p>It would be like seeing, caring for, harvesting and eating only one or two varieties from a garden in which hundreds of different plants, fruit and vegetables grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u00fchlungsborn, 21.30 GHOST DOG Dignity and meaning The dignity of animals (pigeons, bears, dogs), when will they finally get their personal rights? 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