Devemos ser gratos pelo Ser estar sendo e funcionando a todo momento, sem te cobrar nada em troca.Sentir isto é uma forma de afinar e vibrar com o Ser.

No matter what you think about mystic, or what mysticists say about everything: 
if you begin to think , you become aware how  misterious is  all that you experienced until now.

On Artistical Perfection

The history-makers did not manage to do perfect works,

They managed to let those works look perfect at a certain moment in time.

That’s the case of many paintings.

A genious makes it look perfect for a long time, because he got to meditate  about the source of perfection, that is, the eternal and universal sources of creation,and their expressions as well. 

That’s especially the case of great musical compositions: somehow you fell the nature moving, and the drama of the human spirit inbetween.

When a whole group or even population of artists work according to the universal plans of creation then you see things that looks like an second universe, a human mediation at the same time to ourselves and something far beyond. 

That’s especially the case of some temples and cities around it.

Principle of Substantiality ( in Music)

One very basic mistake among many musical pieces after 1950 is the lack of substantiality. That means, many works don’t even come to be a recognizable IDENTITY ( substance). They don’t become A DISTINGUISHED THING. Paradoxically , it seems that the more “avantgard” the composer is, the more it happens. No matter what you do, character and identity are fundamental artistical requeriments. I call that the principle of “substantiality”.  

If you do “just volk art” it is sometimes even wanted that things are similar to each other. If you hear jazz at the cofee bar while talking to someone it is already great so. However if you pay 20 Euros for a piano recital, it is annoying if the pieces sound like “what ever” , without any discourse. I don’t judge musical techniques here, but the lack of discourse, drama, process, meaningful happenings : those elements of the artistical substance that should lead to catharsis. 

I does not mean that a piece is a problem when it sounds similar to something. It is a problem when whey are simular by a lack o intrinsic substance, that means, as it were not a problem to exchange their title, composers name, or even sections.

You can avoid tonal substantiality, you can compose the most evanescent pieces of music , but should not avoid formal or discursive substantiality, that what a gives a simbolical and poetical value to your piece of art.

A composer never write how he plays, he write what he plays , and with the best attempt to suggest his 'how'. Noone master all decisions one have to do while composing. And that is even truer if you compose simple things.  Because what is simple, is ambiguous; and sometimes it should be so.

Music is life, and life goes not at a cristal precise tempo in every detail. 

Just musical signs are precisely equal, not musical events.

I perceive two fundamental positions  among conservatives: one seems to hate the present;  the other  loves it, because it is still expression of an eternal and expansive timeline. 

Just the second one enables the frame of really getting the sense of the past, because it was also presence and actuality  someday.

I conservative that hates the actual presence of the world without acknowledging the expansion and overwhelming variety of what is good is so bad as a revolutionary nihilist that destroys himself while spucking on the history and tradition over he grew up: both are cowards. 

And courage is an ultimate source of knowledge, isn’t?

Just as absolutely singular things do actually exist; however they do so thanks to the existence of universal principles of existence. Do these principles “exist”? Of course, but in a very especial sense. Thus there is no knowledge without regard to the most universal , given by intelectual intuition,  and the most singular being (anything) at the same time, given by empirical perception , both togheter. 

This ontological-epistemological fact underlies our whole historical and personal attempts in this whole human existence.

People are more concerned with not doing harm than pursuing good actions actively. 

Nevertheless they try to be and look  correct as soon as they  are watched .

Male energy is there to create infinitely; 

female energy reproduce it  de-finitely.

Many  “illustrated people” are educated rather to be reading whatever and everytime than to search systematically for the  most relavant sources of information and models of thinking . 

People are educated rather to depend on external signs of progress than developing an inner sense for their own progress

What most men never learn: seduction and atraction 

What most women never learn: incondicional love 

there is nothing so sad than feeling happiness alone,
principally when that is exactly the only condition to feel it

I can just highlight or reinterprate Kierkegaard:

After you reached existencial seriousness and deepness in life, the only way to survive in the world consists in your irony, by never trusting it or taking it too seriously.

My definition of vague music: Aaron Copland

Composers follow concepts and principles; theorists find and follow rules alone by themselves.

Composers follow more concepts and principles than rules; rules are followed principaly by theorists who neglect the philosophical way to decompose a piece in concepts and principles, without breaking its soul.

Oftentimes those who you call  « undisciplined «  are being disciplined according to their own principles, or other people. Discipline , as the faculty to follow rules through, is not an absolute value, it’s just a value..

It’s not about treating her like a princess or not; 
it’s about being first a king, for this story get some sense.

When we say we create the reality we are not using the language in the same sense as when we say that the reality is absolute in itself.

Philosophy, as the foundation of science,  does not require scientific experiments;
but in order to be a philosopher it will be scientifically  necessary 
that you become your own lifetime experiment.

Analysis

Analysis without conclusion are quite the norm nowadays at the university.

So people constantly miss the point of achieving meaning, or achieving the experience of meaningfulness. That happens dues to an absence of appropriate philosophical education, because only the philosophers would teach how and inspire you to take conclusions. Only they taught how to take conclusions out of an empirical data. No scientist did something great without considering deep philosophical questions on logic and theory of knowledge. Those teachings were mostly done by example: not every philosopher shows a logical structure behind his thought; but even so, those exceptions are made by philosophers who inspire us building strong concepts out o things we already thought to notice and be aware of everyday. Most precisely, in my opinion, Hegel and Aristotle would be enough for the task: Aristotle has principles that are reasonable for every beginner, no matter the field he deals with; and Hegel would teach you how to think things that are in motion and its contradictory complexity. He teaches you the inner life of our concepts by showing it. 

Problematic is that frequently when these thinkers are taught, the teacher doesn't believe truly in them.

I learned that it takes a lot of blood for you to integrate a philosopher on your intellectual life. But I don't mean simply "discipline" by that: I mean intellectual passion, straight and courage. Because sometimes it can lead you even to apparently useless or very unwanted existential moments, before you realise that there was already something right about "common sense".

Above all, its a matter of style and taking seriously the following  posture: " I do analysis in order to answer mostly precise questions, and I analyse the status and relevance of my questions, I will never analyse to please or earn a highly questionable social status".

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You do better not dying for virtue, because without you the world would be less virtuous. 
Keep the virtue more to yourself and hold it like a dog on the line.

So do you worry about your dreams coming into reality, but you never allow the things to be as they were meant to be at the time of their creation?

Ask your self:

Do you worry more about what you achieve or about things the world has achieved

through you?

Harder than to find things like truth , knowledge and wisdom, is to find who cares about it when one is not  in a relation of paid submission to authority. 

Wise people are likely to be non reactive, after they got deep intellectual relation with their emotions and illusions; stupid people are just apathetic, nothing can really matter to them, even if it would be true that nothing matters. 

The Cultural Meaning of Music depends on its Therapeutic Features

Wise people are likely to be non reactive, after they got deep intellectual relation with their emotions and illusions; stupid people are just apathetic, nothing can really matter to them, even if it would be true that nothing matters. 

If you don’t „know“ nothing about the whole spectrum of emotions you have , embracing your ego behind your consciousness, you don’t have any contact with the reality yet; 

So whatever the reality may mean, the one you face everyday is still not a mature product.We have to work if we want contact with the things, not our childish representation of things. So you may perceive only unknown shadows of your own fears or desires in what people and your surrounding says to you - because in fact you never experience emotions and concepts beyond yourself.

In this sense music, and the poetry music brings into light, are  there not only for just one small purpose of the daily life. Music can give to you emotions, sensations, the experience of concepts that can bring you back to your self.

Maybe your soul is missing a lot of elementar substances?

Maybe because even composers are not aware of them anymore...

The Epistemological Love Triangle

Our knowledge is essentially related to analogies.

That is so because all beings are united and conserved by ONE thing, that relates beings meaningfully to each other.

That’s why art, especially as poetry, is an  expression of our knowledge AND our experience of the world: it brings abstract analogies of the reality into a concrete and sensual expression of it. In that relies artistical meaning. 

„Because words are essentially relating beings, scarcely existing ones , they are in strict sense RELATION-SHIPS.Not your presence, for instance, but your words ( what you say or don’t say) can save or kill a relationship: because they determine the meaning of your presence relating it to the very core of the things in themselves. The more you love something, the more poetic you are with it: as a lover you want to say what really IS, but never can fulfill this attempt, because what really IS brings you always to infinite circles and metaphers that the lovers never end to express. Nevertheless it seems to be like a game, though a very serious one.

Now I ask you: do you think that you are an expert about any REAL thing while you permanently EXCLUDE  from your personal experience all other categories of beings in this universe in order to save a social position ?

The measure in wich you know the world determines the measure in wich you know yourself. Conversely you don’t know nothing REAL about the world if you don’t break the  coward limits  the self protecting ego imposes to yourself -  not to live without identity, but in order to set new , expanded, limits. 

Was not Plato who recognized that knowledge  , love and reality make an unbreakble and chemical wedding? 

Thats the triangle whose limits are expanding forces, able to unresistible analogical integration.

Taste

It’s not a matter of opnion the question if salad , fruits, or water  is bad or good for you, but a matter of knowledge. It’s a matter of opinion if you like it or not. 

The same happens with other things:

If  people cannot enjoy  somehow any music made before 1960 , at least until 1500, is there not some problem ?

Performance

In order to have a perfect performance it would be necessary not only a perfect performer but also a perfect appreciator and still a perfect critical appreciator. 

But they are normally not there: you just fill the voids with your  imagination, if not the imaginary of someone else.

Cultural Madness

   Love relationships are the ancestral basis of the whole society and civilization .They are a work in progress, growing through the mutual joy of the process. Their existence is a struggle with (not simply “against”) power relationships, the basis of the whole nature and bestial world. 

    Love relationships include sexual fetisches, however they cannot survive  on every sexual fetische. Sexual fetisches worth [that’s just it’s possibility]of being related to love are those that manifest the expansion of the creation and the revelation of its beauty as created-and-creating-thing at once. That’s why they define what is erotic, because they somehow conserve the idea of “eros”, the sexual-romantic atraction.

On freedom it’s all about measure.