ways of seeing

        

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A common misconception is the belief that thinking is the creation of thought. Rather, it is the reception of thought from a source which has no name and from a place that cannot be found. Since one can’t decide to think nor can one decide thoughts’ contents, why does one claim their ownership? 

Is every sound Wu Hsin’s because he can hear them?

—Wu Hsin

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I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I am in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever i want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

—Dziga Verotv, revolutionary Soviet film director, 1923

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

 

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A step toward your own heart
is a step toward the Beloved.

In this house of mirrors
you see a lot of things –

Rub your eyes.
Only you exist.


–Rumi 
Star/Shiva version

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the perfume of lucid sight

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It is understood that
Sleep is the desire for
A period of rest
For the body.
It is less understood that
Sleep is the desire for
A period of rest
Away from the body.

What constitutes the sense of 'I am this' is
Constantly changing while
What constitutes the sense of 'I am' is unmoving.
The shift in the attention from
The former to the latter is
The perfume of lucid sight.


—Wu Xin (Wu Hsin, 无心)
The Lost Writings of Wu-Hsin

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