Ecclesiastes always seems so Buddhist in its emphasis on the impermanence of material things; the Five Remembrances could have come right from Kohelet's mouth. And their answer to impermanence is also the cultivation of the inner life, not only in attitude adjustment but in careful training of one's own introspection and perception.
Just beautiful! (FYI, I think you meant Exodus 1:10 instead of 2:10). If the Hebrew word חכם means wise in terms of practical technique, and חכמה means wisdom of that ilk, then is there a different Hebrew word you’d suggest for the type of wisdom associated with the σοφία (sophia) of philosophy? Is that word then in some way also different from the word for the wisdom of religion? Perhaps the Hebrew word for religious wisdom would be the Kabbalah’s דַּעַת (da’at), divine transcendent wisdom? Seems that religious wisdom should be distinguishable from philosophical wisdom, to the extent that philosophy seeks to find fundamental truths that should apply in all non-sacred space at all non-sacred times, while religious wisdom applies to sacred space and sacred time. While the profane and the sacred would seem to be separate they can of course coexist as two sides of the same coin, so to speak. So perhaps the special combination you’re describing of philosophical and devotional wisdom gets at some holistic / broadening / merging oneness of the sacred and profane realms of wisdom, which can then further inspire the technical realm of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes always seems so Buddhist in its emphasis on the impermanence of material things; the Five Remembrances could have come right from Kohelet's mouth. And their answer to impermanence is also the cultivation of the inner life, not only in attitude adjustment but in careful training of one's own introspection and perception.
Just beautiful! (FYI, I think you meant Exodus 1:10 instead of 2:10). If the Hebrew word חכם means wise in terms of practical technique, and חכמה means wisdom of that ilk, then is there a different Hebrew word you’d suggest for the type of wisdom associated with the σοφία (sophia) of philosophy? Is that word then in some way also different from the word for the wisdom of religion? Perhaps the Hebrew word for religious wisdom would be the Kabbalah’s דַּעַת (da’at), divine transcendent wisdom? Seems that religious wisdom should be distinguishable from philosophical wisdom, to the extent that philosophy seeks to find fundamental truths that should apply in all non-sacred space at all non-sacred times, while religious wisdom applies to sacred space and sacred time. While the profane and the sacred would seem to be separate they can of course coexist as two sides of the same coin, so to speak. So perhaps the special combination you’re describing of philosophical and devotional wisdom gets at some holistic / broadening / merging oneness of the sacred and profane realms of wisdom, which can then further inspire the technical realm of wisdom.
Interesting approach! I'll have to mull this one over a bit...
Thanks for this. As a person who practices Taiji and feels aligned with Taoism the thoughts here were familiar and comfortable.
When “teaching” Taiji we do not tell a student what to do or feel, we tell them where to look.