Cna you answer if someone asked you what your dream is? I thought I could, but the truth was I couldn't. I have a lot of dreams, but nothing has reality. So I wanted to ask you can you answer the question.
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"Can you answer" and "should you answer" are two different questions. In the European traditions, the first stage of knowledge/wisdom is knowing yourself, and you can not without knowing your dream also. I am assuming you are using dream in the Japanese sense of the word and not in the sleeping sense. If you (any person) are not able to answer the "can you" question, then you have not yet finished the first task of knowing yourself. However, one's dream, both the Japanese sense and sleeping,is an ephemeral (vocab for you ;-) truth, because it and we are always changing, evolving and decaying. Ephemeral ideas disappear the more we try to recreate them in reality; as we wake the dream fades; as we tell our dream to someone, it becomes a fixed definition and stops being ours the more we live, experience, and grow beyond the telling of it. There are only two reasons I would tell my dream: the first is to let it go; the second is in hopes of finding people who share it, so that we can live our lives and experience together towards a newer dream evolving to include each other.
Hmmmmmmmph this is the sort of speaking Haruna loves me to do when she wants to fall asleep. -Seth
Yes, I used drean in the Japanese sense. I thought I knew about myself well enough. In fact, meybe...I don't. For me, or in my case, dream in Japanese sence is not always an ephemeral thing. Some part of my dream change, but its base usually does not change. Now the point is; how can I know more about my self? Even if I think about myself deeply, it could be just ideas I cling to. Even if I ask my friends about myself, their answers don't always fit my own impression on me.
What word or phase do you use to express dream in the Japanese sense?
Well, I'm not gonna sleep but I won't be able to sleep if you speak this sort of idea when I want to fall asleep:)
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"Can you answer" and "should you answer" are two different questions. In the European traditions, the first stage of knowledge/wisdom is knowing yourself, and you can not without knowing your dream also. I am assuming you are using dream in the Japanese sense of the word and not in the sleeping sense. If you (any person) are not able to answer the "can you" question, then you have not yet finished the first task of knowing yourself. However, one's dream, both the Japanese sense and sleeping,is an ephemeral (vocab for you ;-) truth, because it and we are always changing, evolving and decaying. Ephemeral ideas disappear the more we try to recreate them in reality; as we wake the dream fades; as we tell our dream to someone, it becomes a fixed definition and stops being ours the more we live, experience, and grow beyond the telling of it. There are only two reasons I would tell my dream: the first is to let it go; the second is in hopes of finding people who share it, so that we can live our lives and experience together towards a newer dream evolving to include each other.
Hmmmmmmmph this is the sort of speaking Haruna loves me to do when she wants to fall asleep.
-Seth
Yes, I used drean in the Japanese sense.
I thought I knew about myself well enough. In fact, meybe...I don't. For me, or in my case, dream in Japanese sence is not always an ephemeral thing. Some part of my dream change, but its base usually does not change. Now the point is; how can I know more about my self? Even if I think about myself deeply, it could be just ideas I cling to. Even if I ask my friends about myself, their answers don't always fit my own impression on me.
What word or phase do you use to express dream in the Japanese sense?
Well, I'm not gonna sleep but I won't be able to sleep if you speak this sort of idea when I want to fall asleep:)
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