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Estoy enamorado es poco de Wislawa de apellido Szymborska JUAN FORN

Estoy
enamorado es poco
de Wislawa
de apellido Szymborska
y primer nombre Mariusha.

Su padre quería un varón
le decía: Nada de berrear
nada de exponer entrañas,
ella escribió mucho después:
Sé componer los rasgos de la cara
para que nadie divise la tristeza
soy quien soy
un caso insólito
podría ser yo pero sin asombro
pero eso significaría
ser alguien totalmente distinto.



Ah, Wislawa, alma vieja
nadie en tu familia murió de amor
y vos en cambio viviste así
amando el color azul y
buscando siempre a aquel de
ojos color cerveza
que lleno de amor te dijo un día:
Mañana y todas las mañanas de mi vida
estaré bajo tu balcón
salvo que llueva,
ah, Wislawa,
Mariusha,
qué ojo tenías
aunque ignoraras de qué iba la obra
y qué papel representabas.



Haga lo que haga, dijiste,
se convertirá para siempre en lo que hice
y nos advertiste:
Aun con toda mi buena fe
sé que contaré cosas que jamás
                                              existieron.



En tu primer viaje al exterior (a Bulgaria)
te alojaron en un hotel lejos de la ciudad
había un enorme globo terráqueo
vos hiciste una isla minúscula
le pusiste el nombre del hotel
y la pegaste en el lugar más vacío del Pacífico,
quien pase alguna vez
por ese rincón de los mares
que nos diga si esa isla aún existe.



Cómo nacieron tus poemas
te preguntaron una vez:
Escribía cuentos cortos
que se volvían más y más cortos
hasta que sólo tenían unas pocas líneas
así nacieron mis poemas, dijiste,
y también:
Prefiero lo ridículo de escribir poemas
a lo ridículo de no escribirlos,
y también:
Prefiero escribir a mano en hojas pequeñas
para asegurar el contacto
entre lo que tengo en la cabeza y la mano,
y también:
Para traducir un poema mío,
primero hay que comprenderlo
y luego basta encontrar algo bonito
pero no demasiado, para que suene natural
mis poemas son como
respiración
reposada.



Y cuando Polonia te quiso abrazar
la sofrenaste con estas palabras:
En este país por tradición
una poeta tiene que ser maldita
infeliz por exceso de espiritualidad
y por causa de sus amantes
que no están a la altura de su talento
perdón perdón por no ser así
aunque mis señas de identidad
sean el
frenesí
y la
desesperación
así en minúscula.



Todas las sillas eran duras en tu casa
para que las visitas no se quedaran demasiado
y lo que más te gustaba de los viajes
era el regreso
y cuando no querías hacer algo decías:
Será un placer aceptar su propuesta
cuando sea más joven,
ah, Wislawa,
Mariusha.



Eras de la opinión que
en nuestra época se hablaba demasiado
así que diste el discurso más corto
de toda la historia del Nobel
que empezaba así:
En un discurso lo más difícil es la primera
frase.
Así que ya la he dejado atrás
y contraviniendo el protocolo
saludaste al público
antes que al rey y a la reina
y después saliste a fumar
y cuando el rey te ofreció
un chicle de nicotina le dijiste:
Dudo que sean tan benéficos como el cigarrillo
para la literatura,
ah, Wislawa,
Mariusha.



Y ustedes,
díganme,
¿ni un poco enamorados de ella
están ustedes también?

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Aníbal el alquimista y Julio Cortázar

Blog de Jesús Ferrero 

Cortázar en París (Antonio Gálvez)

Me contaron que había un alquimista porteño que materializaba rosas, como Paracelso y como Borges. Tratándose de un argentino, no lo puse en duda. Siempre he pensado que los argentinos hacen milagros.

Si me dicen que un alquimista belga ha materializado una azucena, o que un alquimista holandés ha materializado un tulipán, puedo gritar: ¡Mentira! Básicamente porque no creo en la magia de los Países Bajos. Pero ahora mismo me dicen que un alquimista argentino ha materializado un elefante del siglo III antes de Jesucristo, y lo creo de inmediato y hasta me parece normal.

Los argentinos pueden materializarlo todo: tragedias, dramas, melodramas, comedias. Poseen un registro amplísimo como actores de la vida, que perciben como un teatro. Son seductores natos porque participan de un sentimiento dramático de la existencia, y los dramas se representan además de vivirse.

Uno de los amigos más nobles y bondadosos que tuve en París fue un argentino que se llamaba Aníbal y que se parecía a Cortázar. No sé qué habrá sido de él. Nos encontrábamos a menudo en el Barrio Latino, nos ofrecíamos cigarrillos, charlábamos un rato. Aníbal también practicaba la alquimia.

Una noche Aníbal dobló una cucharilla sin tocarla, predijo una muerte, nos hizo creer que materializaba una cajetilla de Gitanes, y nos llevó a un café (La Palette) donde estaban cenando Julio Cortázar, un cronopio y una fama. ¿Caben más milagros en una sola jornada?

Que es lo que no entendemos por confianza

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La Dama del número 6" es una de las más inspiradoras historias  .  A los 109 años de edad, Alice Herz Sommer, es la pianista más vieja del mundo y la más vieja sobreviviente del Holocausto. Comparte sus puntos de vista sobre cómo vivir una vida larga y feliz. Ella habla de la importancia de la música, la risa y tener una visión optimista de la vida. Dirigido por el Ganador del Oscar, Malcolm Clarke.

Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

BY MARIA POPOVA

“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” Kurt Vonnegut observed in discussing Hamlet during his influential lecture on the shapes of stories. “The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad,” Alan Watts wrote a generation earlier in his sobering case for learning not to think in terms of gain or loss. And yet most of us spend swaths of our days worrying about the prospect of events we judge to be negative, potential losses driven by what we perceive to be “bad news.” In the 1930s, one pastor itemized anxiety into five categories of worries, four of which imaginary and the fifth, “worries that have a real foundation,” occupying “possibly 8% of the total.”

A twenty-four-hour news cycle that preys on this human propensity has undeniably aggravated the problem and swelled the 8% to appear as 98%, but at the heart of this warping of reality is an ancient tendency of mind so hard-wired into our psyche that it exists independently of external events. The great first-century Roman philosopher Seneca examined it, and its only real antidote, with uncommon insight in his correspondence with his friend Lucilius Junior, later published as Letters from a Stoic (public library) — the timeless trove of wisdom that gave us Seneca on true and false friendship and the mental discipline of overcoming fear.

Seneca

In his thirteenth letter, titled “On groundless fears,” Seneca writes:

There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

With an eye to the self-defeating and wearying human habit of bracing ourselves for imaginary disaster, Seneca counsels his young friend:

What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come.

Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.

Illustration by María Sanoja from 100 Days of Overthinking

Seneca then offers a critical assessment of reasonable and unreasonable worries, using elegant rhetoric to illuminate the foolishness of squandering our mental and emotional energies on the latter class, which comprises the vast majority of our anxieties:

It is likely that some troubles will befall us; but it is not a present fact. How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never come to pass! And even though it is ordained to be, what does it avail to run out to meet your suffering? You will suffer soon enough, when it arrives; so look forward meanwhile to better things. What shall you gain by doing this? Time. There will be many happenings meanwhile which will serve to postpone, or end, or pass on to another person, the trials which are near or even in your very presence. A fire has opened the way to flight. Men have been let down softly by a catastrophe. Sometimes the sword has been checked even at the victim’s throat. Men have survived their own executioners. Even bad fortune is fickle. Perhaps it will come, perhaps not; in the meantime it is not. So look forward to better things.

Art by Catherine Lepange from Thin Slices of Anxiety: Observations and Advice to Ease a Worried Mind

Sixteen centuries before Descartes examined the vital relationship between fear and hope, Seneca considers its role in mitigating our anxiety:

The mind at times fashions for itself false shapes of evil when there are no signs that point to any evil; it twists into the worst construction some word of doubtful meaning; or it fancies some personal grudge to be more serious than it really is, considering not how angry the enemy is, but to what lengths he may go if he is angry. But life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible extent; in this matter, let prudence help you, and contemn with a resolute spirit even when it is in plain sight. If you cannot do this, counter one weakness with another, and temper your fear with hope. There is nothing so certain among these objects of fear that it is not more certain still that things we dread sink into nothing and that things we hope for mock us. Accordingly, weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour; believe what you prefer. And if fear wins a majority of the votes, incline in the other direction anyhow, and cease to harass your soul, reflecting continually that most mortals, even when no troubles are actually at hand or are certainly to be expected in the future, become excited and disquieted.

But the greatest peril of misplaced worry, Seneca cautions, is that in keeping us constantly tensed against an imagined catastrophe, it prevents us from fully living. He ends the letter with a quote from Epicurus illustrating this sobering point:

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Complement this particular portion of Seneca’s wholly indispensable Letters from a Stoic with Alan Watts on the antidote to the age of anxiety, Italo Calvino on how to lower your “worryability,” and Claudia Hammond on what the psychology of suicide prevention teaches us about controlling our everyday worries, then revisit Seneca on making the most of life’s shortness and the key to resilience when loss does strike.

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si algún Dios creo este mundo

 Schopenhauer : si algún Dios creó este mundo , no me gustaría ser ese Dios , pues su miseria y su infortunio , me partirían el corazón

El gran error de la naturaleza humana es adaptarse

Ribeyro : ser el eterno forastero

Cartas a Juan Antonio. París, 28 de enero de 1954. Julio Ramón 

“El gran error de la naturaleza humana es adaptarse. La verdadera felicidad estaría constituida por un perpetuo estado de iniciación , de sucesivo descubrimiento, de entusiasmo constante. Y aquella sensación solo lo producen las cosas nuevas que nos ofrecen resistencias que aún no hemos asimilado. El matrimonio destruye el amor, la posesión mata el deseo, el conocimiento aniquila el placer, el hábito la novedad, la destreza, la conciencia. Ser el eterno forastero, el eterno aprendiz, el eterno postulante, he allí una fórmula para ser feliz.”

Corto : El pez con una sonrisa ( empatía ) Ganador Festival de Berlín

ética de Confucio

 

Hay tres principios clave que se enfatizan en las enseñanzas de Confucio, los principios de Li, Jen y Chun-Tzu. El término Li tiene varios significados, y suele traducirse como decoro, reverencia, cortesía, ritual o la norma de conducta ideal. Es lo que Confucio consideraba como la norma ideal del comportamiento religioso, moral y social.
El segundo concepto clave es el principio de Jen. Es la virtud fundamental de la enseñanza confucianista. Jen es la virtud de la bondad y la benevolencia. Se expresa mediante el reconocimiento del valor de los demás y la preocupación por ellos, independientemente de su rango o clase. En las Analectas, Confucio resume el principio de Jen en esta afirmación, que suele ser llamada la Regla de Plata: "No hagas a los demás lo que no quieres que te hagan a ti" (Analectas 15:23). Li brinda la estructura para la interacción moral. Jen lo convierte en un sistema moral. El tercer concepto importante es el de Chun-Tzu, la idea del verdadero caballero. Es el hombre que vive de acuerdo con las normas éticas más elevadas. El caballero muestra cinco virtudes: autorrespeto, generosidad, sinceridad, persistencia y benevolencia. Sus relaciones se describen de la siguiente forma: como hijo, siempre es leal; como padre, es justo y amable; como oficial, es leal y fiel; como esposo, es recto y justo; y, como amigo, es fiel y discreto. Si todos los hombres vivieran según los principios de Li y de Jen, y se esforzaran por tener el carácter de un verdadero caballero, la justicia y la armonía gobernarían

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la primera señal de civilización : la ayuda al otro

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La enseñanza debe respetar el derecho de cada uno a buscar su verdad

Camus agradeció siempre a su maestro que la escuela le enseñara que hay plagas y hay víctimas y que en la medida de lo posible hay que negarse a estar del lado de la plaga .
Se trata de educar a los jóvenes para que tomen sus decisiones y lo hagan sin desembarazarse de la obligación que supone el problema moral .
La educación debería hacernos comprender que leer , dominar la técnica  o sobresalir en el manejo de Internet no nos hace mejores personas ni mejores ciudadanos
Finlandia el país que ofrece la mejor educación del mundo, tiene un alto porcentaje de votantes xenófobos y ultraconservadores
Se puede recibir una educación exquisita y utilizarla para ser intolerante y cruel . Una cosa u otra dependerá de nuestra propia decisión individual
Y todo esto no tiene nada que ver con practicar una religión o no practicarla . Ya vemos las guerras que provocan las religiones y lo que separan , ademas de los fundamentalismos variopintos que nos asolan .

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poeta de Paterson : Ron Padgett

How to Be Perfect

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BY RON PADGETT

                                                  Everything is perfect, dear friend.
                                                  —KEROUAC

Get some sleep.

Don't give advice.

Take care of your teeth and gums.

Don't be afraid of anything beyond your control. Don't be afraid, for

instance, that the building will collapse as you sleep, or that someone

you love will suddenly drop dead.

Eat an orange every morning.

Be friendly. It will help make you happy.

Raise your pulse rate to 120 beats per minute for 20 straight minutes

four or five times a week doing anything you enjoy.

Hope for everything. Expect nothing.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room

before you save the world. Then save the world.

Know that the desire to be perfect is probably the veiled expression

of another desire—to be loved, perhaps, or not to die.

Make eye contact with a tree.

Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of

them.

Dress in a way that pleases both you and those around you.

Do not speak quickly.

Learn something every day. (Dzien dobre!)

Be nice to people before they have a chance to behave badly.

Don't stay angry about anything for more than a week, but don't

forget what made you angry. Hold your anger out at arm's length

and look at it, as if it were a glass ball. Then add it to your glass ball

collection.

Be loyal.

Wear comfortable shoes.

Design your activities so that they show a pleasing balance

and variety.

Be kind to old people, even when they are obnoxious. When you

become old, be kind to young people. Do not throw your cane at

them when they call you Grandpa. They are your grandchildren!

Live with an animal.

Do not spend too much time with large groups of people.

If you need help, ask for it.

Cultivate good posture until it becomes natural.

If someone murders your child, get a shotgun and blow his head off.

Plan your day so you never have to rush.

Show your appreciation to people who do things for you, even if you

have paid them, even if they do favors you don't want.

Do not waste money you could be giving to those who need it.

Expect society to be defective. Then weep when you find that it is far

more defective than you imagined.

When you borrow something, return it in an even better condition.

As much as possible, use wooden objects instead of plastic or metal

ones.

Look at that bird over there.

After dinner, wash the dishes.

Calm down.

Visit foreign countries, except those whose inhabitants have

expressed a desire to kill you.

Don't expect your children to love you, so they can, if they want to.

Meditate on the spiritual. Then go a little further, if you feel like it.

What is out (in) there?

Sing, every once in a while.

Be on time, but if you are late do not give a detailed and lengthy

excuse.

Don't be too self-critical or too self-congratulatory.

Don't think that progress exists. It doesn't.

Walk upstairs.

Do not practice cannibalism.

Imagine what you would like to see happen, and then don't do

anything to make it impossible.

Take your phone off the hook at least twice a week.

Keep your windows clean.

Extirpate all traces of personal ambitiousness.

Don't use the word extirpate too often.

Forgive your country every once in a while. If that is not possible, go

to another one.

If you feel tired, rest.

Grow something.

Do not wander through train stations muttering, "We're all going to

die!"

Count among your true friends people of various stations of life.

Appreciate simple pleasures, such as the pleasure of chewing, the

pleasure of warm water running down your back, the pleasure of a

cool breeze, the pleasure of falling asleep.

Do not exclaim, "Isn't technology wonderful!"

Learn how to stretch your muscles. Stretch them every day.

Don't be depressed about growing older. It will make you feel even

older. Which is depressing.

Do one thing at a time.

If you burn your finger, put it in cold water immediately. If you bang

your finger with a hammer, hold your hand in the air for twenty

minutes. You will be surprised by the curative powers of coldness and

gravity.

Learn how to whistle at earsplitting volume.

Be calm in a crisis. The more critical the situation, the calmer you

should be.

Enjoy sex, but don't become obsessed with it. Except for brief periods

in your adolescence, youth, middle age, and old age.

Contemplate everything's opposite.

If you're struck with the fear that you've swum out too far in the

ocean, turn around and go back to the lifeboat.

Keep your childish self alive.

Answer letters promptly. Use attractive stamps, like the one with a

tornado on it.

Cry every once in a while, but only when alone. Then appreciate

how much better you feel. Don't be embarrassed about feeling better.

Do not inhale smoke.

Take a deep breath.

Do not smart off to a policeman.

Do not step off the curb until you can walk all the way across the

street. From the curb you can study the pedestrians who are trapped

in the middle of the crazed and roaring traffic.

Be good.

Walk down different streets.

Backwards.

Remember beauty, which exists, and truth, which does not. Notice

that the idea of truth is just as powerful as the idea of beauty.

Stay out of jail.

In later life, become a mystic.

Use Colgate toothpaste in the new Tartar Control formula.

Visit friends and acquaintances in the hospital. When you feel it is

time to leave, do so.

Be honest with yourself, diplomatic with others.

Do not go crazy a lot. It's a waste of time.

Read and reread great books.

Dig a hole with a shovel.

In winter, before you go to bed, humidify your bedroom.

Know that the only perfect things are a 300 game in bowling and a

27-batter, 27-out game in baseball.

Drink plenty of water. When asked what you would like to drink,

say, "Water, please."

Ask "Where is the loo?" but not "Where can I urinate?"

Be kind to physical objects.

Beginning at age forty, get a complete "physical" every few years

from a doctor you trust and feel comfortable with.

Don't read the newspaper more than once a year.

Learn how to say "hello," "thank you," and "chopsticks"

in Mandarin.

Belch and fart, but quietly.

Be especially cordial to foreigners.

See shadow puppet plays and imagine that you are one of the

characters. Or all of them.

Take out the trash.

Love life.

Use exact change.

When there's shooting in the street, don't go near the window.