August 18, 2011
- Renee Daumal on “Animals” -
From “Keys to a Great Poetic Game – #15”
“To the same light, perpetually active in its inaction, organic functions that contribute to the maintenance of the corporal form and those more subtly organized functions that constitute within the body, bodies of many particular desires are enfolded. Since I stop considering them as my nature or as my property, they tend immediately to reunite with nature which ceases, at the same instant, to be considered as something exterior. They now appear as animals which have been enclosed for a long time within the human skin and which, once freed, hasten to rejoin their own packs.”
See also, obviously, yesterday’s post.
See also:
“Nirvana means the perception of reality as it truly is. And when, by a complete change (a turning inside-out) in all methods of mental processes, there follows an understanding of oneself (by oneself) – this I call nirvana.”
Comment by Ian — August 18, 2011 @ 1:30 pm
So like are these animals inside us wild or domesticated?
Comment by Ted — August 18, 2011 @ 3:36 pm
I’d say wild, but they pretend to be domesticated in order to get us to do things for them. It’s only when we see them for what they are that they go running back into nature… :)
Comment by Ian — August 18, 2011 @ 3:48 pm
Protestors must occupy themselves. What occupies me? Am I an indivisible self? Genesis’ deep meaning—man’s power to name “inner” animals. Name animals, control animals.
Comment by Ian — November 8, 2011 @ 4:16 pm