July 17, 2005
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Dance
Yesterday’s AP “Thought for Today”–
“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor,
no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin;
and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” – J. Robert
Oppenheimer, American physicist (1904-1967).From Log24 on Dec. 17, 2002:
The Dancing Wu Li Masters,
by Gary Zukav, Harvard ’64:“The Wu Li Masters know that physicists are doing more than
‘discovering the endless diversity of nature.’ They are dancing with Kali [or Durga], the Divine Mother of Hindu mythology.”“Eastern religions have nothing to say about physics, but they have
a great deal to say about human experience. In Hindu mythology, Kali,
the Divine Mother, is the symbol for the infinite diversity of
experience. Kali represents the entire physical plane. She is the
drama, tragedy, humor, and sorrow of life. She is the brother, father,
sister, mother, lover, and friend. She is the fiend, monster, beast,
and brute. She is the sun and the ocean. She is the grass and the dew.
She is our sense of accomplishment and our sense of doing worthwhile.
Our thrill of discovery is a pendant on her bracelet. Our gratification
is a spot of color on her cheek. Our sense of importance is the bell on
her toe.This full and seductive, terrible and wonderful earth mother always
has something to offer. Hindus know the impossibility of seducing her
or conquering her and the futility of loving her or hating her; so they
do the only thing that they can do. They simply honor her.”How could I dance with another….?
— John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1962-1963
See also yesterday‘s entry.
