In review for a closing music school exam, my professor introduced a new concept: cultures outside the West are more accustomed to adding rhythms together, rather than subtracting beats from a "measure." The measure represents our tendency to think of people with different views and identities as volatile, and causes a virulent reaction to our own sense of self-identity. Whereas, adding rhythms together reflects the capacity for cultures to develop many sub-sets of identities within them, such as many ethnic groups in China having completely different dialects, but still governed by one country.
Knowledge is a double-edged sword on which many impale themselves. The mind onli knows how to cut and separate, because as itself alone, can never have or be anything of its own, it can onli cut everything else that is sees as the outer jungle. The mind can onli grasp things in duality, and loses sight of what is known deeper. Thus it is a tool as a veil that covers, and a tool as one that cuts, but never as one that knows what is meant to be covered, and what is meant to be cut. Wisdom is necessary to guide knowledge, else it becomes abuse of power. 'What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are.: It is the great secret.' Lao Tzu https://www.organism.earth/library/document/tao-te-ching
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