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• Our first new library addition this month is the Introduction to the book Deep Knowledge by Oludamini Ogunaike, presenting and comparing two important “ways of knowing” in West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa.
As Amadou Hampâté Bâ writes, “To discover a new world, one must be able to forget one’s own; otherwise one merely carries that along with one and does not ‘keep one’s ears open.’ The Africa of the old initiates warns the young researcher through the mouth of Tierno Bokar, the sage of Bandiagara: ‘If you wish to know who I am, if you wish me to teach you what I know, cease for a while to be what you are, and forget what you know.’”
• We continue with a brief selection from the writings of Ananda Coomaraswamy, dwelling on the meaning and aspects of art, beauty and erotic love in Indian art.
The mysticism of oriental art is always expressed in definite forms. India is wont to suggest the eternal and inexpressible infinities in terms of sensuous beauty. The love of man for woman or for nature are one with his love for God.
A Girl with Peacocks (Rajasthan, ca. 1660). British Museum.
• And we complete our selection with “Welcoming Everything” a chapter from the collection of talks entitled Don’t Take Your Life Personally, by Ajahn Sumedho, full of insights into the inner struggle of the contemplative life, especially in the context of Buddhist meditation in the Thai tradition.
… we begin to see that we cannot trust our personality as our identity because it is not what we are, even though it says so and seems so. We therefore break out of its limitations through awareness — not by rejecting the personality, not by trying to not have a personality (which would be impossible anyway) — but by ceasing to be committed to the personality as ‘myself’.
Shiva watches Parvati Sleep, c. 1780–1790. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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