Introduction

-philosophy: love of wisdom ----＞ portable wisdom

# Wisdom is portable. It transcends space and time, and is never obsolete.

-philosophize

: self-transformation : radical reflection

: how to live Questions / not to mis-live

: practical as the therapy and medicine for the soul

Part 1 DAWN

1 How to get out of bed

-Is life worth living? : Is / Ought

-Great Bed Question by Marcus

: Hamlet under the covers : To rise or not to rise?

: It is cold out there, yet .... =＞ Why bother?

/ life forces, outside forces, activities ((vertical position))

/ laws of inertia & other people’s obstacles

# We’re all bodies at rest, waiting for an outside force to act upon us.

-＜Meditations＞

# When you wake in the morning, tell yourself; the people you deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, jealous, and surly.

# You could be happy today.

: duty (from inside) / obligation

: disempowering other people (can’t hurt you)

2 How to wonder

-The King of Questions by Socrates

: human inquiry & puzzle

: experiencing big questions (to understand ourselves)

-“enlightened kibitzing”

: conversation -＞ distancing -＞ to know ourselves

: seeking for meaning and defining ourselves

/ Siri’s algorithm (can’t)

-lingering (pause) ==＞ Slow down & Take your time!

: seed of thought -＞ open-ended, expansive

-true knowing (to act right) / ignorance

-ultimate questions : a calling

-listening to ＜The Dialogue＞ : love of talk ＜- courage & time

as gardener : planting and growing questions

as optometrist : vision to see clearly

-deep questioning : living questioning

: no fixed answer : answers of heart : not rushing to solve

-examined life (with yourself)

: personal question : self-interrogation : shift in perspective

: reframing in the new light and angles : self-renewal

: agora in people : transforming : becoming metaphor

3 How to walk

-philosophize about walking by Rousseau

-freedom from social habit & trappings of civilization =＞ a nomad

-Savage Man

: pure self-love (inside you) (as a human nature)

: no regrets and worries

-wisdom in you body : our bipedal existence

: All is flux. : no endings =＞ experiencing the sacred (close to nature or god?)

-not overthinker : slow travel as walking

-＞ discovering the authentic self (by all forgotten)

: democratic being with imagination : feel & think differently

-Rousseau’s naturalism

: Silence that voice. Connect with the (serious) earth.

: portable peace : sanctuary(holy place) in motion

4 How to see

-Thoreauvian eyes

: his vision & senses ＞ knowledge

-Pond Scum 불명예

-Transcendentalist movement

: for purely spiritual life : lively experiments : wildness (not wilderness) 

-＜Journal＞

: seeing clearly : postpone defining : interactive (not just object)

: seeing deliberately =＞ choice to see differently

: with wonder & “innocence of the eye” : by sauntering, lingering, studying

*Beauty in the heart

: purifying the lens of perception

: glancing : Scan! (superficial wonder is okay~~)

-a place person : where -＞ how / how -＞ where

# Beauty is where it is perceived through imagination and senses.

5 How to listen

-Schopenhauer’s pessimism

# The world is my idea.

: shadow of illusion & the unseen reality

-(hungry) Will(ing)

: unstoppable desire : always striving, never sated

: devouring (time) =＞ suffering & separateness (by illusion of happiness)

-Porcupine’s Dilemma

: the proper distance (to connect well)

: art(music) appreciation =＞ ear discipline : being disinterested & attentive

# To hear someone speak is to know them.

- true listening

: postpone judging =＞ happy or not =＞ maybe-ism

: open to many voices & others

-love of music / loathing of noise

: voice = barometer of character

# Sound matters. =＞ personal identity

# We can’t know the world if we don’t know ourselves.

: having your inner voice : creating insight ==＞ meditation & music

# Sounds without words. Emotion without content. Signal without noise.

Part 3 DUSK

11 How to have no regrets

-＜Groundhog Day＞ comedy movie, but in reality....

-Nietzsche: simple life in Swiss (by physical ailments)

: ideas in the open air & of the movement

-Eternal Recurrence

: ‘self-same you’ return again & again

: Live your life as if it repeats endlessly : See differently (illuminating)

-writing style

: clarity & simplicity : playful aphorism

: experiencing impulsive & irrational emotion

: shouting with exclamation marks

＜--＞ academic norms, hard reason, cold logic, abstract thought

-reorienting our attitude

: find joy & pleasure : shift in perspectives : Think differently. Feel differently

-Only dance (with rhythm)

: love of fate : So be it.

: in the Dionysian way : Love life despite the suffering

-All or nothing

: in an infinite loop (without deleting, revising, adding, avatar)

: Affirm the entire of your life : the daily check-in (with yourself)

--＞ to say “Again, again”

-Suffering is inevitable.

: how we suffer, and about what matters.

: a means of learning : ingredient in the good life

# Only suffering leads to knowledge.

-“recall me to myself”

: Look up! : all happy Sisyphus : radical acceptance of your fate

***Can you accept that endless failure?

Can you embrace it?

Can you love it?

# Every tomorrow is today, every today tomorrow.

: burden of eternity, so live properly

# Don’t wait for a reason to dance. When life is good, dance. When life hurts, dance.

---＞ superman’s will power??

12 How to cope

-Epictetus : stoic calm (often in U.S. history)

: live in accord with nature : old person’s philosophy : Give her time ~~~

-Philosophy’s core teaching

: Change what you can and accept what you can’t.

: consciousness of our own weakness

-joyful stoic : out of blue --＞ delight

-stoic altruism : into action ＞ pity

-essence of Stoicism

: not in the hands of others : my sovereignity

---＞ up to us : not colonizing our mind

-“indifferents” to circumstance and achievement : how we endure it

: wishing life were otherwise : failure of reason ---＞ suffer more

-emotions : result of judgments about things

: fully up to us : our responsibility : our choice : under our permission

: Feel correctly. ＜--＞ pre-emotion & proto-passion, impression & assent

-Socratic pause ＜ Might Pause : indifferents --＞ Let me see....

-Voluntary Deprivation : Intermittent Luxury

: Relabel it : ‘nice enough’ ----＞ gratitude

-“premeditation of adversity” : imagining the worst senarios

-Reserve Clause

: fate permitting : Embrace your role : LOVE & DESIRE your fate

--＞ control your attitude : heal yourself : becoming your own physician

-self-reliance : agent of divine providence ---＞ responsibility for your happiness

- the View from Above

: You’re everything. & You’re nothing : Man up!

: Nothing is ours. We always rent. ---＞ so, nothing to fear losing

# I am a temporary tenant here, just passing through. ---＞ not too much grieving

# All we cherish will one day disappear. Beware lest delight in them lead you to cherish them so dearly that their loss would destroy your peace of mind.

13 How to grow old

-Beavoir (Beaver; a workaholic) : Existentalism

: silent about old age(just rage), but the ideal model of aging

: act independently : lover of cafe (as a lab of human failing and possibility)

-old person : not the Other : We are also on a Continuum.

-① Chronos / ② Kairos time

② case ＞＞ our choice to create our essence : ripen(wise) time

***Everything has its time.

-dadsplain ＜---＞ hysterical pregnancy ^^~~~

-aging : a cultural, social verdict : learning acceptance of Sisyphus fate

-facticity : beyond our control

# Don’t curse your Sisyphean rock. Own it. Love. --＞ your choice~~

: Stoic Wisdom : Great Summing Up (near life’s summit --＞ see further & whole)

: finish playing at being ~ --＞ moment of liberation

: de-caring others : Just be. : Let go (Constructive Disengaging)

14 How to die

-Montaigne : patchwork of philosophy

: Death : philosophy’s true test : inconvenient truth : not to be afraid of it

: Test it. Play with it. Befriend it. ((as a part of you))

--＞ Sisyphus-like by taking chances, making mistakes

: attempt at getting to know yourself

-not absolute truth : fluid(Fluttering) : personal truth : know ＞ know that~

-awareness of death : to live more fully

-If-it’s-natural-it-must-be-good theory

: natural outcome ---＞ so, beautiful and invitable

: full and generous acceptance (with gratitude & sweetness)

: slippage theory (over time) ? overpreparing ?

Part 2 NOON

6 How to enjoy

-Epicurus = philosopher of pleasure

: body and senses

: gardening (adult’s hard work & child’s easy joy) ＜-＞ political bonds

*Why weren’t they happy even if they had enough?

: unexplained symptoms -＞ medical approach (fear & desire)

-primacy of pleasure

: absence of disturbance : tranquility : pain relief : peach of mind

# Pain won’t last forever.

-desire

① natural and necessary ② natural but not necessary

case ②＞＞ chasing mirages & consuming --＞ hard to obtain : suffering

① static pleasure : for your own sake : sated

② kinetic pleasure : pain of not having : craving again & again

-pure Epicureanism

: philosophy of acceptance & gratitude

: pleasure, simplicity, good life ... sharing friendship

-pleasures varied / pleasures increased

---＞ gap : suffering & short duration of pleasure

# If goodness comes your way, enjoy it. (Instead) Don’t seek it.

-＞ simply happen at you ~~

-desire as the root of all suffering ＜-＞ tranquility

: endless cycle of itching & scratching -＞ so, minimizing desire

-‘sober reasoning’(prudence) of appreciating pleasure & pain

: Just-a-Bit-More-sim (X)

: ‘good enough’ (attitude) of deep gratitude =＞ painlessness

-Pleasure Paradox

: Happiness contemplated is happiness lost.

7 How to pay attention

-Simone Weil : piercing, serious eye

-pure, selfless attention

: flow ＜--- filter mode of ‘prioritizing’ (focusing or ignoring)

-true attention

: moral virtue : empathy & generosity

: look suffering in the eye : love & caring --＞ noticing the Other

---＞ expanding : thinking suspended

-not concentration

: empty, waiting : ‘negative effort’ : no rush to judgment

: tirelessly, rationally, attentively ＜--＞ impatience, speed, quickly

-desire -＞ making mistakes & unripe ideas

-Thought Leader***

: decreation : pondering until ripened

by moment of unselfing ＜-＞ anxious & resentful : inattention = selfishness

-(suffer a) loss

: desire : craving --＞ illusion of having

-pure attention : drawing back : enduring the risk : indirectly

: indifferent about future rewards(visible fruit) : not care -＞ let it go~~

: accept the result, then only waiting (with more patience)

8 How to fight

-Gandhi’s ‘experiment’ of the new ways to fight well

*How you fight matters.

-An Einstein of the heart

: imagination & creativity ---＞ nonviolent resistance

-Truth Force : fight productively : win-win solution

-strength of body & will

: ‘remasculate’ for independence & freedom

: not coward (with the genuine courage)

-＜Gita＞

: spiritual poems : process-oriented

-desirelessness ---＞ not devouring yourself

# When we brutalize others, we brutalize ourselves.

***When they go low, we go high. ??

-walk of protest

: action of refusing to answer hate with hate

-law of love

: Full Gandhi : only LOVE ---＞ Think creatively.

: violent person = a failure of IMAGINATION ((John Lennon))

# All violence represents a failure of imagination. Nonviolence demands creativity.

-veiled violence : fight uncleanly

-fight well & better

: step back & examine : gently for your aim : to convert into love

: many opponents, but no enemies ~~~~~~

# He saw people not as they were but they could be.

# There will be other fights. There always are.

--＞ Life is going on?? concept of zero??

9 How to be kind

-＜The Analects＞

: Confucius’s utopia ((good governance))

: virtue of filial piety in family ---＞ wiser rulers in society

-human-heartedness

: compassion, kindness, benevolence, love ....

-kindness (muscles)

: container of ‘proper ritual conduct’ ---＞ moral skills, good character ...

: holding people together ＜--＞ callousness : a failure of imagination

-kindness contagion***

: people-are-good nature (with alarm & compassion) instinctively

/ dormant kindness

＜---＞ reflexive kindness (in action)

: Absorb! (through study)  : moral self-cultivation

# Kindness comes naturally. Cruelty is learned.

10 How to appreciate

-＜The Pillow Book＞

Japanese : People of the Nook : the beautiful nook

-list-making in dairy

: for the small, fleeting pleasures --＞ impermanence

# Beauty lies in its own vanishing.

*See the small, detail (by careful & sympathetic look)

: Start where you are. Move.

: to be wholly your own with all senses(including smell)

-‘aesthetic experience’

: generous selfless act : enhancing taste of life

-a detail person ＜-＞ size-ism

: Go small. : Get specific. : micro-beauty everywhere

# Who we are is largely shaped by what we choose to surround ourselves with.

# The beauty of small things can save us.