Painting Paragraphs With Words

In a book titled: “The ten Oxherding Pictures; A Guide to Enlightenment,” by a Professor of Jungian Psychology and Philosophy, he writes about Zen and the art of seeing: “Seeing is one of the things Fredrick Frank teaches in his ‘Zen of Seeing/Drawing’ workshops.”  He says we do a lot of looking, we look through glasses, we look through telescopes, we look through camera lenses but, there are very few of us have learned what it is to really see.

In the book, it says, a Zen Master once said:  “The meaning of life is to see;”  though we spend a lot of time looking, there is very little that we actually see — in reality, perspective is limited to experience….  At the same time, experience is only limited by our perspective, sensation and perception and yet, that’s the beauty of it.  When you look: what you see; and, how you see it.

Someone I know once described how they paint everything they see as they are seeing it.  Imagine; it is difficult to express that what you cannot see, in the same way it is hard to understand that which you do not know….

“The first half of life is spent learning, the second half of life is spent understanding.” ~C.G. Jung 

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— A Brief History….

Xanga began before it’s time in 1998: in lieu of it’s key contemporaries like; friendster and, livejournal, as a social networking site for sharing books, movies and music reviews — leading it’s competition in social media as we know it today to sites like Facebook, Linkedin, Myspace and, Twitter.  Yet today, Xanga remains after a $60,560 community supported campaign.

At the beginning: users enjoyed editting and formatting content in fully customizable profiles with writing html and javascript plug–ins; private access to audioblogs, and blurbs also known as pulses — Members participated in blogrings, photo, video and weblogs…  contributing content to an active community sponsoring social commentary @ http://www.xanga.com

Fareed Zakaria:// “The Post–American World.” And, ‘The Rise of the Rest.’ —[Doyle c.2009/ ‘Research Writing’/ Review c.2013]

An author by a number of other titles such as; “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad”, “From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role”, as well as the co–editor for “The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World” — CNN news correspondent Fareed Zakaria, offers up an interesting and, unparalleled perspective the modern world, the current state of affairs and also a bi-partisan view into America’s shifting geopolitical position in the world of tomorrow.

When we look to his book, The post-American world, at the very start, Fareed cites an appropriately selected quote found in A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee that may as well serve as a preface towards the following pages within:
“Growth takes place whenever a challenge evokes a successful response that, in turn, evokes a further and different change.  We have not found any intrinsic reason why this process should not repeat itself indefinitely, even though a majority of civilizations have failed, as a matter of historical fact”(    ).