Let us today learn something about kama muta in Buddhism:Alan P. Fiske[1] writes that “the principal prototype and precedent of the Buddhist kam muta mote is third-person kama muta when observing, hearing, or reading about the paragon Buddha’s paradigmatic loving-kindness.” But “[t]he percept is that first-person kama muta should also occur …
In this post I’m trying to give you a grasp of what we think makes kama muta important. Not just for us humans. But especially for us humans. In doing so I will try to conceptualize “how kama muta” we humans actually are. What moves us? Many things, right? A …
After a summer break, we dive in some new territory of kama muta. The word terharu from Malay is one of the many that can grasp kama muta experience verbally; and shows how different languages embody kama muta experience in their very own manner. A native speaker explains terharu: “I think …
Each Sunday-morning service began with 30 minutes of prayerful singing described by the church as ‘worship,’ and every service ended in a call for people ‘who need prayer’ to come up front to get prayer. Indeed, there was a ‘prayer team’ chosen by and trained within the church, and as …
One’s very own kama muta in an Oslo café:He is a barista in an Oslo café that serves what may be the best coffee in the world. He has worked in retail service since he was 14, beginning part time in a cheese shop. Whenever a customer is especially thoughtful …
Today we have a moving moment which represents a rather personal one for me. I stumbled upon a video capturing the development of a human – “Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 20 years”; made by the Dutch artist and filmmaker Frans Hofmeester. When watching it I was deeply moved but …
After Martin Luther King Jr.’s address last week, let us turn to something similar. Similarly strong in its idea of connection: Love poetry. “Imagine,” Alan Page Fiske writes “that Shakespeare had written this poem to you:” [1] If I should think of love I’d think of you, your arms uplifted, Tying …
One of the foremost examples of kama muta evocation by English speech is surely Martin Luther King Jr.’s address at the Lincoln Memorial in Washingto D.C.. The conclusion of the speech were the following passages: “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons …
Today you get to read a poem carrying the meaning of kama muta – feeling oneness. It is in the very language the expression kama muta (“moved by love”) is in, Sanskrit: When he comes back to my arms I’ll make him feel what nobody ever felt everywhere me vanishing …
For today’s most moving moment we have something different. We have a joint cluster of moving moments, so to speak. We borrow from Alan Fiske’s narrative [1] for it: “China Central television, also state-owned, is the largest broadcaster in China. Since 2002, with the sponsorship of the Industrial and Commercial Bank …