Individual consciousness and collective consciousness are my main issue recently. I almost got lost in such collective consciousness (of Taiwan) feeling suffering, irritation and judgement. When I read the article Thay wrote talking about we can remember friends bringing us good energy. I remembered the energy some SF friends gave me, the flowers passing to me in Golden Gate Park, and the supporting of Guanyin in Asakusa. It is never easy for me to make the decision for such experience. Thinking about them, the energy brought me back to my island and breath. I remind my promise for this journey, then I have energy to look deeply the collective consciousness of wholesome and unwholesome seeds Taiwanese has.
Thich Nhat HanhEven the fashion and design is collective consciousness. I understand this but never look that deeply, especially the process how do I look at design, the designing phenomena here. I am not only want to be a researcher, but a practitioner and a designer with clear mind and mindful awareness :)
We may think that our agitation is ours alone, but if we look carefully, we ‘ll see that it is our inheritance from our whole society and many generations of our ancestors. Individual consciousness is made of the collective consciousness, and the collective consciousness is made of individual consciousness. They cannot be separated. Looking deeply into our individual consciousness, we touch the collective consciousness. Our ideas of beauty, goodness, and happiness, for example, are also the ideas of our society.
Every winter, fashion designers show us the fashions for the coming spring, and we look at their creations through the lens of our collective consciousness. When we buy a fashionable dress, it is because we see with the eyes of the collective consciousness. Someone who lives deep in the upper Amazon would not spend that amount of money to buy such a dress. She would not see it as beautiful at all. When we produce a literary work, we produce it with both our collective consciousness and our individual consciousness.
Every winter, fashion designers show us the fashions for the coming spring, and we look at their creations through the lens of our collective consciousness. When we buy a fashionable dress, it is because we see with the eyes of the collective consciousness. Someone who lives deep in the upper Amazon would not spend that amount of money to buy such a dress. She would not see it as beautiful at all. When we produce a literary work, we produce it with both our collective consciousness and our individual consciousness.
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