TENEZ LE DROIT / Uphold the Right [Angle]

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Flags of the World (continued) Under bondage

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TAR : “It’s really about ...

We received an email captioned :

Art Guide Australia #474
What to see at “the art fair that artists love”

and noted with interest this sub-section teaser, "It's really about..."

“It’s really about looking at images and putting them together, and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

Theoria

The Greek theoria (θεωρία) meant "contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at", from theorein (θεωρεῖν) "to consider, speculate, look at", from theoros (θεωρός) "spectator", from thea (θέα) "a view" + horan (ὁρᾶν) "to see".[9] It expressed the state of being a spectator. Both Greek θεωρία and Latin contemplatio primarily meant looking at things, whether with the eyes or with the mind.[10]

According to William Johnston, until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term contemplatio, c.q. theoria.[4] According to Johnston, "[b]oth contemplation and mysticism speak of the eye of love which is looking at, gazing at, aware of divine realities."[4]

Several scholars have demonstrated similarities between the Greek idea of theoria and the Indian idea of darśana (darshan), including Ian Rutherford[11] and Gregory Grieve.[12]- Wikipedia

Darshan

In Indian religions, Darshana, also spelt Darshan, (Sanskrit: दर्शन darśana lit. 'showing, appearance,[1] view, sight') or Darshanam (darśanam) is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person.[2]

The term also refers to any one of the six traditional schools of Hindu philosophy and their literature on spirituality and soteriology.[3]

Etymology

The word darshana, also in the forms of darśana or darshanam, comes from the Sanskrit root of दर्शन dṛś 'to look at', 'to view', vision, apparition or glimpse.^[1]

Definition

Darshana is described as an "auspicious sight" of a holy person, which bestows merit on the viewer.^[2]

It is most commonly used for theophany, meaning a manifestation or vision of the divine, in Hindu worship, e.g. of a deity (especially in image form), or a very holy person or artifact. One can receive darshana or a glimpse of the deity in the temple, or from a great saintly person, such as a great guru.^[4]

In Hinduism

The term darshana also refers to the six systems of thought, called darshanam, that comprise classical Hindu philosophy.^[5][6] The term therein implies how each of these six systems distinctively look at things and the scriptures in Indian philosophies.^[6][4] The six orthodox Hindu darshana are Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedanta. Buddhism and Jainism are examples of non-Hindu darshans.^[4]

Mahayana Buddhism

On the significance of darshana in Mahayana thought, Paul Harrison writes: "By the second century CE... the vision of the Buddha (buddha-darśana) and the accompanying hearing of the Dharma (dharma-śravaṇa) are represented as a transformation experience of decisive importance for practitioners, be they who have renounced (mundane life) 'ascetics' or householders."^[7]

The Abhidharma, collections of systematic summaries of the sutras, mention Darshana-citta, i.e. visions.^[8]

Indian Mahayana philosophers Vasubandhu and Asanga acknowledged five paths to liberation, of which the third is darshana-marga, the "path of seeing".^[9]

Nagarjuna, a prominent philosopher of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism, wrote that the wise person perceives tattva-darshana, true reality.^[10][11]

 “It’s really about looking at images and putting them together,

 and looking at how they behave,” says David Noonan. 

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dependent-arising : space-time-conscious : before-after Donald Judd

Today, this :

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Fifty years ago, regarding 'Some Recent American Art' at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne :

Some years earlier, Theatre of the Actors of Regard (Bendigo)

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One taste.

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How long is a string of questions?

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Egg Without an Egg

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DirecTAR

  

Brian Taylor calling the final minutes of the 2022 Anzac Day clash between The Bombers and The Magpies at the MCG : “They’re all pointing. Verbaleyesing directions.”

Saraha, Sarahapa, Sarahapāda (or, in the Tibetan language མདའ་བསྣུན་, [danün], Wyl. mda' bsnun The Archer), (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas. The name Saraha means "the one who has shot the arrow.".^[1]  According to one, scholar, "This is an explicit reference to an incident in many versions of his biography when he studied with a dakini disguised as a low-caste arrow smith. Metaphorically, it refers to one who has shot the arrow of non duality into the heart of duality."^[2] - Wikipedia 

"Everything without exception

shares the nature of open space,

and never moves from it at any time.

Space is called 'open space',

but in its essence, nothing at all exists.

It is neither existent nor nonexistent,

nor not existent and not nonexistent -

it transcends any other domain of illustration.

Thus, mind, open space, and the nature of reality are not separate in the slighest."

- Saraha 

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hanging by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread | by a thread to and from ...

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cogiTAR ergo sum

found meme over 1950s Man Ray photo of Marcel Duchamp

We can't confirm that Duchamp ever said that about ideas, but it did set us to thinking...

FIAPCE Foto Studio  

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A ± B = C / ...D ± E ± F ± G...

Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. (James Joyce, Ulysses)

A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text:

    Weep no more, woful shepherd, weep no more
    For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead,
    Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor...

It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible. Aristotle's phrase* formed itself within the gabbled verses and floated out into the studious silence of the library of Saint Genevieve where he had read, sheltered from the sin of Paris, night by night. By his elbow a delicate Siamese conned a handbook of strategy. Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds. Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.

James Joyce, Ulysses (Nestor p.26) 

* "It follows that the soul is analogous to the hand; for as the hand is a tool of tools, so the mind is the form of forms and sense the form of sensible things." [Aristotle : On the Soul, Book III, Part 8]

whatness of allhorse = horseness

an actuality of the possible as possible = a movement

thought of thought = thought 

form of forms = soul 

analog of the hand = soul

tool of tools = hand 

form of forms = mind 

form of sensible things = sense 

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The Sign of the Four - Part 2

Further to yesterday's post re. The Sign of the Four 

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Spoiler Alert re. 'Logan'

     
Last night, we watched 'Logan' (2017).

At the grave, Laura quotes from 'Shane' (1953).

Then, coming upon the SINCLAIR+GALLERY research, comes Laura's parting act. Turning upon turning...

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Minister for Education, Alan Tudge MP re. National Education Standards

  
In the morning, this broad discussion on The Art Show (ABC RN) re. about Public Art.

In the afternoon, at Question Time in the House of Representatives, the Minister for Education re. National Education Standards. Hansard (20 October 2021) :

Mr ALEXANDER (Bennelong) (14:51): My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. With many students in my electorate returning to school this week, will the minister outline how the Morrison government is ensuring the national curriculum will help our kids roar back and instil a factual, positive view of our history and love of our country.

Mr TUDGE (Aston—Minister for Education and Youth) (14:51): I thank the member for Bennelong for his question and his contribution to his electorate and indeed to our nation. It is fantastic that kids are returning to school in Melbourne and Sydney, and it is such a relief for parents and for kids. As they return to school, we are absolutely backing them in to roar back. We're doing that through record funding to every single school; we're doing that through additional mental health support; we're doing that through keeping the economy strong so that there are opportunities for them post schooling—and, of course, we're also doing this through revising the national curriculum to ensure that standards are high and that we instil that love of country which the member for Bennelong referred to.

Mr Speaker, as you'd be aware, the national curriculum is presently under review. But I've got to say that I would not support what the independent Australian curriculum authority has presently put out, the reason being that, in some cases, standards haven't been lifted but have in fact gone backwards. The clearest example of that is in the teaching of the times table. Presently, kids are being taught that in year 3, but under the revised national curriculum, which ACARA, the independent body, has put out, it would be taught in year 4. In some other countries it's actually taught in year 2. But I'll tell you what is suggested to be taught in year 2, and that is to suggest or to analyse whether a statue is racist. So you can't learn the times table, but you can do an analysis of a statue in year 2, when you are seven.

My biggest problem, though, is actually in the history curriculum—

Opposition members interjecting—

The SPEAKER: Members on my left!

Mr TUDGE: and it is in this history curriculum where I have the greatest problem. As you know, we live in the greatest, egalitarian, freest, wealthiest country that has ever existed in the history of humankind, but if you read that national draft curriculum on our history, you wouldn't think this. It has such a miserable view of our history. Frankly, we're not going to stand for that, because there is a reason that we are the greatest country in the world, and kids need to learn about that reason so that they can defend it, so they can be proud of it and they can do what previous generations have done.

I notice whenever I talk about this topic, whenever I talk about pride in Australia and I talk about pride in our history, the Labor Party opposite get so upset, because they equally have such a miserable view of our history and they want that miserable view imparted to kids. Well, we don't on this side of the House. We are proud of our country. We know that mums and dads are proud of their country, and we want to ensure the kids are equally proud.

Culture Wars 101 (continued) : He did the same thing in Question Time yesterday. Again, he had one of his own backbenchers set him up with a Dorothy Dixer. 

Mr STEVENS (Sturt) (14:27): My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. Will the minister outline how the new draft national school curriculum proposes to teach Australian children about our rich history and our successful democracy?

Mr TUDGE (Aston—Minister for Education and Youth) (14:28): 

I thank the member for Sturt...

...I am not satisfied with the current draft which has been presented, because some of those core things which underpin our democracy are not there. It has a negative view of our history. It has a negative view of Australia. It omits some of the great people in Australia's history. It omits even things such as Christianity, more or less, even though it's one of the great influences on modern Australia.  

Opposition members interjecting— 

Mr TUDGE: Again I speak about this desire to instil love of country into the national curriculum and into students, and again the Labor Party get so upset when we dare to suggest that kids should learn about our democracy, should have pride in our country, should absolutely celebrate our democracy and should make a contribution to it. I don't understand why. The only reason I can suggest is that they share that miserable view of our nation and want our kids to equally have that miserable view of our nation. We won't stand for it.

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