How wonderful what you are doing!!!! Thank you very much. Can I share with you the words “art, culture, creative” with you, please — in many different languages, such as Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic etc. All the best,
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Culture, the Arts and Creativity in Different Languages and Cultures
The Fulfillment of the Moral Law: (lit. Culture, China)
The moral law is God given Confucius
Culture: 1 — Latin: cultura, agriculture, (cult); cultus. colere: to till the ground; cultivate, inhabit, dwell. 2-Sanskrit, Sanskriti: kriti- creation, well made, well structured, perfectly put together ( Sanskritam= Sanskrit language). 3 — Tamil, South India: panbaadu- the maturity of the way. 4 — Arabic: salafia, salafa: to go forward; (salah: prayer-related?) Adab- culture, secular teaching, good education.
5 — Persian: farhang- abundance, plenty, unlimited thinking. 6 — Japanese: bunka: ka- to change, to develop; kosaku, (kyoyo, Saibai ?). 7 — China-originally it meant “flower”. Wen hua: human being, to maintain a constant process of evolvement and renewal; wen,- pattern, text, arrangement of characters, to go forward. Lit. The fulfillment of the moral law. Constant evolvement and renewal. Culture = religion- chiao- ; religion = poetry. Religion is derived from filial piety- Hsiao- filial, piety + “making filial.
Chinese Culture: Soul in Chinese- no religious connotation as in the West-it often shares the meaning with heart/mind. Chinese cultural tradition seeks unity and parity of all things, including body and soul along with heart and mind.
8 — Bahasa, Indonesia, kebudayaan, daya, energy. — Is n’t it beautiful? Culture means energy! And this energy comes from the heart/mind, kathati in Bahasa, hati means “heart”, the centre of us human beings; and “ahat” means “inside” and certainly not outside. 9 Bangla, culture, -desh, tamaddun, tahjib.
10 Haussa (Westafrica, Nigeria, Niger etc. Sunni Muslims), ilimi, ilmi, culture, to know, education.
11 Korea: culture means munhwa. Korean culture (and other cultures which were influenced by Confucian thought, such as Japan and Vietnam), is a “father” culture: aboji (abonim, a formal term for father). Shi, poetry in Korea, originally came from China and the first poems written by Koreans were written in Chinese characters. Russian: culture= worship of the light.
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Art, Culture and Spirituality, Swami Atmaramananda etc.
Art must be in touch with nature- and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates — yet it (Art) must be above nature…Art is — representing the beautiful. There must be art in everything. The mainspring of the strength of every race lies in spirituality, and the death of that race begins the day that spirituality wanes and materialism gains ground.
It is culture which withstands shocks, not a simple mass of knowledge…There must come culture into the blood…It is spiritual culture and ethical culture alone that can change wrong racial Swami tendencies for the better…The finer the organism, the higher the culture.
Swami Vivekananda
“No limit may be set to art, neither is there any craftsman that is fully master of his craft.”
The Instruction of Ptahotep, Egypt
“The world importance of nations cannot be measured in the long run in terms of the men they butcher in battle, of the wealth of which they rob others, or of the destruction they bring to civilization.
K owledge, Beauty and Culture:
“It has to be reckoned in terms of the knowledge, beauty and culture which they contribute to man`s possessions in his journey towards self-realization. In the strength, tenacity, and resilience they develop in defeating the forces of disruption and annihilation, in the vitality they conserve in order to equip man with a higher destiny.” Dr. K.M. Munshi:
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The Arts: 1 — Sanskrit: a part of the whole, to join. Silpa, shilp, crafts, namely creativity, dexterity and techniques in both, mind and hands “beyond explanation and therefore a subject of wonder”.
In India, and not only in India, from Vedic times on, there has never been made a sharp distinction between the crafts and so-called “high art”. The artisan had an equal status as the official artist. 2 — Arabic: sina’a, Al Sa’ni- God, the Creator, Allah. Fann: ? (a). Art (b). The making and doing of anything well and correctly. Knowledge (wisdom) and technical science. 3 — Greek: perfect of its kind., complete, to arrange. 4 — Hebrew- oman- artist, emona- to believe, neman- to believe in God. 5-Latin: ars, artis: skill, handicraft, trade, occupation; artus: joint, armus: shoulder, arma: weapons. 6 Korea, 7 China- beauty, skill, technology.
7 — Bahasa: ilmu, originally- Arabic- elm, sacred knowledge. Bahasa, Sastera, happy and sad feelings.
8 — Persian- honar- technology. 9- Tamil, kalai- ka — l -ai, ( incidentally: ka, charity (Latin caritas); to love and to hate in ancient Egypt; cadaver, to die , to fall); ai in Chinese etc., to love, cf. ai-kido, Japan). 10 Russia, and 11 Bulgaria, something refined. 12 Taiwan: all beautiful things.
“If one’s moral character is not high, one’s art will also lack style.” Wen Chenming, China
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Creation, create: “ Latin, create, lit. to cause to grow. Ceres : Italian Goddess of growth. Latin: creare: to make, produce, to cause to grow. I.E: (Indo European) base: ker — to grow-whence Latin. crescere — to grow; creber: thick, close, frequent, numerous- lit. densely grown. Ceres: Italian corn goddess- lit. goddess of growth. Greek.: To fill with a thing, satisfy. Arm.- I produce. Lith. to feed.” Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dict. of the Engl. Language. Vietnam, creative, co nang luc sang tao (Creator, d nguoi sang tao), and bright, light and to create.
Hebrew, bara- “to form man”- Genesis- yatsar- like pressing clay together, bara- fat- original meaning- God fattened the Heavens and the Earth.
Genesis, “And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” The original : “La-as soth: In order to do”= the creation is continuing.
Creative- Thai- thought, to make in a positive way. Korea- to call into being (first time). Vietnam : Bright (light) + to create.( Peace: Benin, bright (light) & to create), China, sheng, to create life, being born.
Where there is creation, there is progress; where there is no creation, there is no progress, know the nature of creation. Where there is creation, there is joy. Where there is no creation, there is no joy, know the nature of joy; where there is joy, there is the Infinite, there is no joy in the finite.
Chandogya Upanishad
“Each act of creation is born of a subtle interchange or clashing encounter of inner and outer.
This art involves “A condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything.”
T.S. Eliot: Little Gidding, in Four Quartets
“If you accept the fact that fate is really created by your own self, then you are in the current, and then, even if the external situation is bad, you have the spring flowing within. ..You are joyful, you are lifted up by the river. God himself can do nothing against man’s choice of how he will play his part in the drama of human destiny.”
C. G. Jung:
“Creativity is intrinsic to the process of human or meta-biological evolution.” Jonas Salk
Creativity is built into my higher Self, and into the Self of each and every human being on this beautiful planet. And each and every brain of us human beings is programmed for balance, harmony, compassion and kindness.
“Why are creativity and culture inextricably intertwined? Brain research tells us that that we are all born for creativity because the brain is innately programmed to hold opposites in equilibrium; to keep the “big picture” in mind while attending to the parts. “The alpha and omega of life is certainly creativity”. .. Marilyn Wilhelm
“All creation is copulative. Each individual being, that indivisible dual being, is comprised of 50% DNA from the mother and 50% DNA from the father, to form a two-sided unity. The Eternal Quest is to bring the opposite sides of our being in equilibrium. Balanced thinking is a creative act. In traditional terms Reason, the Mind of Light, means masculine and feminine are united, giving birth to evolution…The mirror image of evolve is love.” M.Wilhelm
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Civilization: China — (holy) knowledge, light, bright. Incidentally, in French, Spanish and Sanskrit there is only one word for civilization and culture. Japan, bummei; Arabic, hadaraa?
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