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Kahn's unmeasurable ina

ina : spirit of life, common ingredient in all living things, which also possess an existence will as a directional force making the cells of a rose want to be a rose.

"A great building, in my opinion, must begin with the unmeasurable, go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable. The design, the making of things, is a measurable act. At that point, you are like physical nature itself, because in physical nature everything is measurable - even that which is yet unmeasured, like the most distant stars which we can assume will eventually be measured.

But what is unmeasurable is the psychic spirit. The psyche is expressed by feeling and also thought and I believe will always be unmeasurable. I sense that the psychic existence will calls on nature to make what it wants to be. I think a rose wants to be a rose. Existence will, man, becomes existence, through nature's laws and evolution. The results are always less than the spirit of existence.

In the same way, a building has to start in the unmeasurable aura and go through the measurable to be accomplished. It is the oly way you can build. The only way you can get it into being is through the measurable. You must follow the laws, but in the end, when the building becomes part of living, it evokes unmeasurable qualities. The design involving quantities of brick, method of construction, engineering is ended and the spirit of its existence takes over."

The beginning of any established activity of man is its most wonderful moment. For in it lies all the spirit and resourcefulness from which we must constantly draw our inspirations of present needs.

The Practice of Concentration

The practice of concentration (samadhi) trains the mind’s capacity for being present in the moment, thus augmenting our ability to bring wise attention to bear as much as possible on the experience.

The Moon Itself

The human mind has the tendency to manufacture concepts and beliefs in relationship to things that are inherently transcendental. This often leads us to suffer the old curse of “mistaking the finger pointing to the moon for the moon itself.” The cause of this mistaken perception is the ego, since the ego’s only occupation is to sustain its flimsy existence or world of illusion. It always tries its best to create hindrances to the realization of truth.

25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future | Crack Two

25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future | Crack Two

these are some really beautiful concrete forms. check it out!

The Way Things Are

One of the main pursuits of Buddhism is to bridge the gap between the way things appear and the way things are. That approach does not come just from a curiosity to investigate phenomena. It arises from the understanding that an incorrect perception of reality inevitably leads to suffering.