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RE: L.O.E.S - 4 - The Power Of A Name
I use materials as I am provided them, or can provide (donate) them, for jobs. I was told by a woman who had been raised in Hawaii, apparently around the sizable population of Japanese heritage there, that my work embodied wabisabi. Often I repurpose materials for folks that need something but have no ability to provide the necessary materials, so I use whatever I can scrounge that can be made to work. I assumed wabisabi was an aesthetic, which apparently is part of what it is, because of the rustic look repurposed materials create. I am quite surprised to learn there is a moral precept codified in the concept. Wabisabi is much more than I thought it was.
That guy says he's in the Brooks mountain range, which is in Alaska, but ~2000 miles north of Sitka, where I grew up amongst the Tlingit. Alaska is very big. Texans think Texas is big, but when an Alaskan saw a Texan carrying some watermelons, he asked him where he got such nice grapes.
I am not part Tlingit, but do have some Chippewa ancestry, and interestingly the Chippewa are part of a larger group of Native Americans (the Anishinaabeg) that includes the Ojibwa and Cree whom, like the Tlingit, have been found to have Denisovan admixture. I only learned this just today and just now realized that this shared genetic heritage results in I and the Tlingit being very distantly related - through hybridization with another human species (Although, perhaps tens of millennia ago. If you go back far enough, we're all brothers). I spent hours researching as a result of that question, and will have to make a post of it, because it's a ridiculous answer to your innocent question!
"Artisans will always have a place in society because they have a heavy duty of passing on the relics of the old world, with old world memories and feelings, by the creation of their own hands."
As are scholars that pass down ancient knowledge of interpreting the world through trigrams and hexagrams. Very little of the ways of our ancestors, perhaps predating the Bronze age, is known to us today. The Zhou Yi is a rare treasure, and you are it's guardian.
hey VC, i've been looking into the Lingit culture
what a great culture it is, im looking for a book on the ways of the people and how your tribe used to live
Do you know whether the Tlingit peoples have a style of martial arts or weapons art? Or empty hands?
would it be safe to say that the Lingit peoples follow a tribal type style of living, how did the tribal infrastructure work? How did they teach the youngsters?
Is there any Tlingit poetry?
Can you speak the language?
What type of clothes did the peoples wear when you grew up?
Yes, Wabi Sabi is also very Buddhist, or very Japanese Buddhist. It's also very Zen in nature. It's very Japanese as the people honours all aspects of what is known in Mahayana Buddhism as "Conditioned Phenomena" (most oftened talked about in the lower vehicle tradition, the Theravada tradition, as well as in deeper sutras such as the Lotus Sutra which uses parables to expound on the "One Path, Many Skillful Means" to reach such a path (of Enlightenment), and in decay these spiritual practioners find Enlightenment - they find the secret to getting rid of original sin forever...in the world of original sin...very sublime mental and spirital mastery over the physical).
I showed you Wabi Sabi because of one of your hexagrams, i cannot remember which, i think it is hexagram 58 line 5 says "Reliance in Decay"; meaning "one in this position, in accordance with the qualities of the trigram DUI/LAKE/THE JOYUS, as well as the doubling of trigram DUI with itself, is reliable/dependable in times of decay"; also "one who finds reliance from others in times of decay"; also "reliance towards decaying influences will bring misfortune"; also "Giving one's full sincerity/trust/booty/loot/bounty/captives towards those with decaying influences (think people of power steeped in decadence, or trapped in hedonism, or still choosing to be/live in ignorant bliss) will bring danger/misfortune/bad juju).
(side note: hexagram 30 was derived from using the POST/LATER THAN HEAVEN SEQUENCE of the Bagua/Eight trigrams; this sequence pertains to the subject/VC moving into the world. Hexagram 58 was derived by using the EARLIER THAN HEAVEN SEQUENCE of the Ba Gua; this sequence of the trigrams pertains to what is happening AROUND the subject...in other words from the P.O.V of the world imposing onto the subject/VC)
It is really you my friend!
Thank you for being a custodian of the old world...i will be uploading a heartfelt message to the Gen Y later on; i recorded this message two nights ago in my kitchen whilst practicing Wing Chun.
Lets do our part in upholding old world relics, with their old world memories, for as long as we can. Gen Y's were the ones who caught the very very VERY last train of the old world. I look upon the next generation that came after and the one after that (Gen X and not sure what Gen it's called after that...Gen wimps? Rainbows? Momos?)
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