June 30, 2009 – 10:56pm – Tuesday
There are many ways to turn this writing towards. As much as I’d love to reiterate what my teacher has said, yet that is quite impossible. Our philosophy class today turned out to be much exciting than expected, of course, in accordance to how I felt it was but never is the same with the experience of others.
I always ask myself since the first week why he always repeats what he taught us in the past meetings. Now I get his point. There is this sense of amazement which enthralled me, that to fully understand philosophy, one must experience it. And in experiencing it after one chooses not to define it. He was letting us recognize how “experiencing philosophy” differs upon reading it only on books. That, whenever, he is relating the subject matter he always goes back to what an insight is. I perceive, upon his teaching the insight, what he was wants us to remember that “we must always go back to the original insight”, this is exactly what he is doing.
Perhaps I should add to my learning on how an insight seems inexhaustible beyond human capacity. “There are no such things as a last insight” I marked his word. That insight resists all its efforts to be known at all simply because it is in its nature that it is unfathomable. It is purposive. Its intention is to be thinkable. However we tried to distinguish that truth we know is something to close once we have a bite on what it was, analyzing it deeply, one will sooner or later realize that the truth is something far rather than close, that he through that is something graspable isn’t at all. Thereby, he’ll conclude it’s just like not knowing anything about the truth at all. The deeper you identify the truth, as an instance, is like not having a familiarity at all to the truth which is so indecipherable in nature.
It’s like when we know something that something is far more than we thought it would be and is distant to reach. And it is in knowing that something we choose not to define it. The word “I don’t know” expresses that you know something yet you choose not to define it. For example, when we have a best friend, of course, we actually know him in a part or so, however, as we deeply get attached to him, we’ll soon find out that there is far more than what the person we think he is, presumably speaking. Therefore, it’s like we do not know him at all.
In life, we know there exist death after. So, why keep living? Haha. A rotten quote indeed. Nevertheless, in the human capacity, there is urgency for us to move. We are used in going there. Looking inwards is rather hard, we are used in looking outwards. That is the irony of life. We know that there is death, so, there’s a more reason for us to keep living.
Also, the idea of separating knowledge and ignorance is introduced. As much my memory could relate it, this has something to do with going back to the original insight. You see, the dividing line between knowledge and ignorance is very thin. It is in grasping knowledge that one becomes more ignorant, and in becoming ignorant, one gains knowledge. In relating this t o the going back to the original insight, I guess, he used the Van Gogh painting. I don’t exactly remember how he relayed it but I’ll keep it locked on my own na lang.
In going back to the original insight, I seized that of the joke example. A joke is intended for humor. The one who sees the point laughs at it. However, analyzing the joke itself can kill its whole essence so we must go back to its original insight in order to deliver it to others indifferently.
So, can there really be a right or wrong insight. No, there can’t be a right or wrong insight. What may seem to be wrong is the thinking but not insight itself which is crucial to thinking. When we see with our minds, it is insight. The next to insight is the thinking. However, we tried to turn it around, an insight can never be wrong; it is on how we think it that it goes wrong. Therefore, it is the thinking not the insight itself.
I’ll end this blog by saying “it is never them, it is always us, ourselves which is significant in thinking”.
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