A Primer for Forgetting

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June 27, 2019

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To study the Buddha Way is to study the self; to study the self is to forget the self; to forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

- Dogen -

A Primer for Forgetting

"We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear--be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness--but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author's own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil." Here is an excerpt from Lewis Hyde's latest work. { read more }

Be The Change

For more inspiration join this Saturday's Awakin Call with Lewis Hyde: On Creativity, the Commons and Forgetting. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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