TEDxPugetSound - David Whyte - Life at the Frontier: The Conversational Nature of Reality
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2011
- Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte is an Associate Fellow at Templeton
College and Said Business School at the University of Oxford, David works with many European, American and international companies, using poetry and thoughtful commentary to illustrate how we can foster qualities of courage and engagement.
In his talk, David encourages us to remain open to know the dialogue with our surroundings inform and inspire our ideas
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I have lived for 40 years of my 76 years as you describe. Of course never articulated as beautifully as you. The result has been and continues to be magnificently exciting each day as I don't know the outcome as I engage with open mind and heart, believing in the great serendipities that come from a positive view of life and moments. Thank you David for so magnificently helping me to understand, me.
David Whyte's 'Everything is Waiting for You' will shift your being. "Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.... everything is waiting." Yes!
Hei s a mentor for those who are willing to take on the difficult apprenticeship of their own demise and disappearance. Thank you David for being so generous!!
Anything is possible in a conversation....love, love. Thank you, David for your gift of words.
Enjoy your ride with David Whyte. His words are precious in opening up just what you wanted or needed to hear.
Thank you - This meant a lot to me. If you think about how people live now during COVID times - we are living very far from the 'frontier' - which is not helpful at all. "A life lived in fear is a life half lived"
remarkable... repetition to get the most flavourful meaning from the words... wow
Just incredible ... oh everything is waiting for you
What an inspiration. Thank you David Whyte
Nothing but conversations
With joy, sadness, even aloofness
Thank you David for the instruction
now am aware ,and ready to meet other than myself
no more I’m a monocultural idea
berhanu
I love how his hands are an aspect of his recitation
I got to see him at St John's College in Annapolis one year - amazing poet!
First off, thank you for Jerry Katz for turning me on to this video. Secondly, the fact that the presenter quotes Wei Wu Wei (Terrance Grey) secured my attention.....especially one of my favorite quotes. Lastly, I love the way David repeats his lines.....driving them home....MAKING you pay attention to what he is trying to say. I find that so very appealing......riveting.....this is beyond poetry....this is life speaking through Mr. Whyte. Thank you for posting.
So moved! Thank you David
Amazing....speechless in the thrumming web of the ongoing conversation......
Dearly Beloved
Look and you will see your beloved everywhere
Self awareness reflected back from the eyes of all creatures
Divine reflections
The rain’s sound and freshness
The warmth and comfort of bed
The rest of aloneness
What intimacy, air and breath
We are suckled by gentle creation
Soothed by the rhythm of our breath
Rest in the large gentle hand of life
Beloved, brave child
Quiet, spacious center
Seeing, feeling
Touched, held and released
By mystery’s twinkling elusive presence.
Thx Lydia
Absolutely breathtaking
A deeper look! Just what I needed today!
Wow so so wise, thank you
The conversation is now - in seeing this box as a part of the conversation that shapes me/us just by opening up to participate. Not alone.
This is crazy! I grew up with his daughter. I had no idea how popular david was! :D
LOL me too
Great wisdom
good job keep up the good work
Life changing.
thanks you!
David Whyte on poetry
overwhelmed to meet you
i dont see how Corporations can apply mindfulness, or even less, spiritual values to their daily practice. pretty much everything done by the corporate world is about achieving maximum results (profit) at any means possible and something or someone else's expense...how is mindfulness or spirituality applied in that context?
Cactus Rox you deserved an answer to your thoughtful question, well over a year ago. I’m sorry you have yet to receive one.
I think for two reasons - to keep the corporate charade alive for the majority. But more importantly, for the few in the corporations who are beginning to have a real conversation - to provide a ladder. You are not alone, there are endless possibilities, open yourselves to more conversations, and see if you can a part of the creation of a glorious symphony - of your demise and disappearance.
As you can hear the stem is like "mono" meaning something like singular or one... in philosophy there are several monisms, which reach too broad to explain here. Monism is also a concept in some other areas beside philosophy i believe, but i'm not sure.
who is emcee woman who introduces & references her work with Vistage ?
In some ways the style of Whyte reminds me on the style of R.W. Emerson? Any thoughts?
she had to us the word: literally, twice in her intro.
@tacoshmaco13 What on earth does that mean: monism?
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@Broadmeadowpics umm I don't even remember commenting on this video lol
He's selling mindfulness lightly disguised as repetitive poetry. Lightly. Disguised. Turn off this sound, this man whispering things you already knew, and learn to listen to yourself. Turn him off and find the answer in your own feet, as they pound the stairs before you dream yourself into a new world where the answers are on the pillow. Turn off, and don't turn up to his talks.
+brumanlcy thank you
I think that the entire point of his profession hinges on people's frequent inability to be mindful. If everyone had no need to be reminded, to be provoked, he would've had no purpose nor audience as a poet. I appreciate your call to listen to oneself--indeed, one doesn't need David Whyte to realise these things--but the reason you are able to post this comment at all is Whyte surfaced a Truth that, it turns out, needed uncovering.
In his own words: "Poetry is language against which you have no defenses." Sometimes, we need people like Whyte--and yourself!--to take us out of the mire and bring us to startling awareness through words (and TED talks).
brumanlcy I must admit I am new to David Whyte. I have listened to an interview with him, I have read it some of his poetry. I’m struggling to be enlightened by what he does. He has studied Heidegger and thus Phenomenology. So what’s different? Is it his combining poetry and ...I don’t know what?. Do we hang on his words because, as poetry, they can reveal something mere prose cannot?
+1
Is this corporation poetry?
***** good one!
Corporate media is...corporate poetry....
hes artist n genius mixed with poet and dipped in philisophical decadent chochlate
I love David Whyte's poetry, but really wish he would cut out he repeats, especially when reading the poetry aloud. It robs the power from his poems.
Hi Solveig. It's interesting you feel this way. I feel opposite. I enjoy his repetition. It's like a song and helps me to explore what it means to me in my head. I'm not saying this to antagonize, just to say I find it interesting how his bard like style effects us in different ways.
I like them quite a lot .....
This third frontier, this conversational reality, it's Heidegger's Double Hermeneutic. This man is really just selling old ideas in new wrapping.
brumanlcy nothing....nothing is new under the sun
I had no clue what Double Hermaneutic was so I looked it up. Had nothing to do with Heidegger as far as I could see
Conversations that Whyte is talking about are "a living thing" - and can't be repeated, become new or old. It is about allowing the connections to unfold - being a witness and an actor at the same time.
The repetitions are very tedious and the speaker has not mastered the magic of the pause.
not everything has a formula. not everyone has to do it RIGHT. Now, if you listened to the content of what HE SAID, "getting in right" in the way you suggest would NOT SERVE who he TRULY is .
Or the message he is actually trying to get ACROSS.
...what? That made aboslute no sense.