<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So-Called Wise Men</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How does one apply the theories of so-called <br>wise men to be present in the moment, live in <br>the now; to a care-facility for the elderly where <br>seniors have no function - or purpose - except <br>being and breathing, waddling to the mess hall <br>eating and excreting - in good order in the right <br>place, not making a mess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While loudly conversing, groups of care takers <br>voices fortissimo - serve, clean and wash and <br>administer medicines while the pain keeps old <br>mothers awake, some walking three-wheelers <br>in the long passages longing for the oblivion of <br>sleep to claim them, one old dame permanently <br>attached to an oxygen tank</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old ladies watching TV rugby matches in their <br>rooms, while visiting I do not know where to put <br>my thoughts and rest my mind, I cannot find joy <br>in this environment - the only solution seems to <br>transcend reality, living life in a dream, staying <br>attached to the facts of old-age reality makes <br>me feel useless and depressed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder whether Buddha and Heidegger with his <br>Phenomenology had ever visited an old-age home <br>and tried to apply their theories to the here and now <br>while interacting with those living restricted lives in <br>debilitation, discomfort and incessant pain…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452353" data-title="So-Called Wise Men de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="How does one apply the theories of so-called wise men to be present in the moment, live in the now; to a care-facility for the elderly where seniors have no function - or purpose - except being and breathing, waddling to the mess hall eating ..."></div> </div> </div>

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