Ep. 2 - IJ Makan's Conversational Portrait

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Ep. 2 - IJ Makan's Conversational Portrait

Mik from TILTA

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IJ Makan

Sep 13, 2024

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IJ shares about..
- Embodying his beliefs, even when labeled a heretic by former communities

- Identity and acceptance as part of the Tangkhul tribe in India: across faith and culture

- Mourning a stillborn son and finding the sacred in martial arts and fatherhood

- Learning to see beauty through painting

- Whether clarity of thought can save relationships

Chapters

00:00 Discovering Silence to Overcome Tragedy

07:56 Exploring the Sensory World

16:45 Silence: for Leisure and Deeper Bonds

22:43 The Value of Self-Reflection (in the Age of AI)

33:33 In the Middle of Many Cultures; Acceptance Within My Tribe

44:27 Accepting and Embracing Cultural Identity

44:50 Growing up Trilingual and Understanding the Ineffable

49:31 An Aside: On Maybe Not Being a Jungian

55:19 The Loss of Symbolism in Culture

59:26 Reading Holy Books in Different Languages

01:13:04 Embodying Beliefs and Values

01:19:34 Embodying Our Values, Always

01:27:29 Living Through Evil While Studying It

01:34:06 The Responsibility of Sharing Knowledge

01:39:36 Practicing Love and Virtues

01:41:17 Letting Go and Sacrificing

01:46:27 Becoming a Heretic in Social Circles

01:49:40 The Dichotomy Between Seeking and Belonging

02:23:37 The Parallels Between Toddlers and Elders

02:31:24 Discipline and the Capacity for Violence

02:37:13 The Sacred in Martial Arts and Fatherhood

02:40:24 Being Trilingual and Understanding Perennialism

02:49:33 Craftsmanship in Painting, the Holy, and How to See

03:01:57 Becoming Whole 03:07:02 Directing My Life Towards the Good and True

Show Notes

16:21 - Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Basis-Culture-Josef-Pieper/dp/1586172565

18:15 Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac https://www.abbaye.ca/en/

30:31 - John Searle’s Chinese Room argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

31:08 - Accelerationist Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

32:05 - Marc Andreessen’s AI Will Save the World https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/

49:20 - Bernardo Kastrup https://twitter.com/bernardokastrup

50:20 - Laurens van der Post’s biography of Jung https://www.amazon.com/Jung-Story-Time-Laurens-Post/dp/0394721756

50:30 - Carl Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Dreams-Reflections-C-Jung/dp/0679723951/ Laurens van der Post’s life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens_van_der_Post

01:07:00 - Daniel Everett and his life with the Piraha in Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386120

01:16:45 - Sufi practice of Dhikr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhikr 01:21:15 - Brunello Cucinelli’s life philosophy https://www.brunellocucinelli.com/en/my-life.html

01:36:50 - Sufi practice of Itlak in Nevit O. Ergin’s book The Path of Annihilation https://www.amazon.com/Sufi-Path-Annihilation-Tradition-Jalaluddin/dp/1620552744/

01:58:35 - @transcendentalfilms's Pursuit of Silence documentary https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4026570/ Director Patrick Shen’s reflections on incorporating silence and monasticism in his daily life

02:01:25 - Buddhist notion of the Rainbow Body https://enlightenmentthangka.com/blogs/thangka/the-rainbow-body

02:05:50 - Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X

02:11:15 - As of 2019, Teikoku Databank reported that Japan had over 33,000 companies that had been in business for more than 100 years, and over 3,000 that were more than 200 years old https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200211-why-are-so-many-old-companies-in-japan

02:14:35 - Ender’s Game quote on loving and understanding your enemy https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/97512-in-the-moment-when-i-truly-understand-my-enemy-understand

02:17:15 - Martin Luther’s “I can do no other” https://columbiametro.com/article/here-i-stand-i-can-do-no-other/

02:25:50 - El Camino, a Catholic pilgrimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago

02:44:04 - Tat Tvam Asi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%81kyas#Tat_Tvam_Asi

02:57:15 - Adi Shankara’s philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara#Philosophy_and_practice

03:08:25 - Baltasar Gracián’s El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646) https://www.amazon.com/El-Discreto-Complete-Baltasar-Graci%C3%A1n/dp/1945028521/

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