BudSpencer on Nostr: I don't wanna be anti, but as you asked me like a week ago, about germanies ...
I don't wanna be anti, but as you asked me like a week ago, about germanies perspective on hesychiasm, I think i now can give you an outlook. Culturally the Benediktin ora et labora tradition . is very much engraved into us, with a lot less focus on the ora part. We consider productive labour to be what god pleases, because he gave us the capability and means to do so.
I think we would probably view it as laziness or sloth. That might come from a tradition of clerics which liked easy living a lot while preaching that humans must work to pay back the primal sin eva brought onto us.
The greatest gift god awarded to only humans among his earthly creations is creativity. Maybe it's a fallacy or i'm missing the point but i think subconsciously and independent of religion we would always favour being productive and helping humanity prosper as a way to experience divinity over egocentrical practices like yoga or meditation, because that will just benefit the practitioner himself if at all.. We simply favour the bold and hard working.
I have not looked further into hesychianism, and i don't think more than a handfull of germans would be able to explain it correctly, but to an uneducated german, which would likely have stopped reading the Tl;dr after the first paragraph as it sounds like some sort of hippie hocus pocus to a german ear, and everybody knows, that that kinda stuff leads to veganism and putting stuff your butthole. It sounds like dudes trying to avoid having to work by making up claims it would enable them to talk to and experience the allmighty himself...
It would probably need lots of convincing to even just propose it.
BUT!!! I'm like 99% sure i got it wrong and don't actually understand or know anything about it. This is not criticism of the practice, it's the assumed outcome of what proposing accepting and followng hechyanism to germans would result in.
I think we would probably view it as laziness or sloth. That might come from a tradition of clerics which liked easy living a lot while preaching that humans must work to pay back the primal sin eva brought onto us.
The greatest gift god awarded to only humans among his earthly creations is creativity. Maybe it's a fallacy or i'm missing the point but i think subconsciously and independent of religion we would always favour being productive and helping humanity prosper as a way to experience divinity over egocentrical practices like yoga or meditation, because that will just benefit the practitioner himself if at all.. We simply favour the bold and hard working.
I have not looked further into hesychianism, and i don't think more than a handfull of germans would be able to explain it correctly, but to an uneducated german, which would likely have stopped reading the Tl;dr after the first paragraph as it sounds like some sort of hippie hocus pocus to a german ear, and everybody knows, that that kinda stuff leads to veganism and putting stuff your butthole. It sounds like dudes trying to avoid having to work by making up claims it would enable them to talk to and experience the allmighty himself...
It would probably need lots of convincing to even just propose it.
BUT!!! I'm like 99% sure i got it wrong and don't actually understand or know anything about it. This is not criticism of the practice, it's the assumed outcome of what proposing accepting and followng hechyanism to germans would result in.