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Summary: To Navigate the Logos
Review: This is the book that introduced me to Tarthang Tulku's Time Space Knowledge series, which has become an important part of my life. It's safe to say that Knowledge of Time and Space can leave quite a footprint in the sand of the mind.
How is this? Well...
Michel Foucault called Deleuze and Guattari's book Anti-Oedipus "an introduction to the non-fascist life." (Incidentally, Foucault's own ideas, and those of Jacques Derrida, are plainly visible in Knowledge of Time and Space.)
This book also introduces its reader to a non-fascist approach to living and being-in-the-world. The "fascist" in onesself is the eye always watching to see if you are not beautiful, or patriotic, or "good" enough as you are, always waiting to punish you: a self-inflicted punishment, certainly, but one learned from what Tarthang Tulku calls "the Logos," which is the totality of arbitrary cultural norms and imperatives (don't be gay! ugly! dumb! intellectual! unpatriotic!) bossing you around. But the Logos proves to be a form of knowledge that obstructs and conducts other forms of knowledge:
"The structures of not-knowing manifest in the content of what is known, as the well-established restrictions on that content" (340). If everything that is "good and right" about America is available at, for example, Wal-Mart, then what Wal-Mart represents and does not represent tells you something about what the Wal-Mart Nation believes itself to be, see?
In Tarthang Tulku's analysis of the socio-psychology of knowledge, one finds plenty of clear guidance on how to navigate this terrain intelligently, on one's own terms. As Walmartistan goosesteps closer and closer to pathological groupthink, this advice becomes particularly useful and important. Happy travels!
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Summary: An Amazing Work That Will Change Your Life
Review: This isn't like anything else "new age." First of all it's rooted in the old Nyingmapa tradition of Tibet, written by a true Rinpoche and no phony. Second of all it actually makes a whole lot of sense. I recommend anything this man writes, no matter what it is.
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Summary: An Amazing Work That Will Change Your Life
Review: This isn't like anything else "new age." First of all it's rooted in the old Nyingmapa tradition of Tibet, written by a true Rinpoche and no phony. Second of all it actually makes a whole lot of sense. I recommend anything this man writes, no matter what it is.
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