The Cure

犢/羔和補償英雄

the "sacrificial victim & its compensatory heroes" scenarii

• The sacrifice of the firstborns (Jean & Jacques) since the Neolithic, a period marked by profound technical and social changes, linked to the adoption by human groups of a subsistence model based on agriculture and livestock, and most often involving sedentarisation. The binding of Isaac shows Abraham willingness to sacrifice his own only son, a willing victim. The final substitution of a ram is considered the symbol of the end of human sacrifices.
• Heroes are those who fight to make a positive difference, whether they be famous figures or everyday individuals.
• Heroes serve many psychological functions, such as enhancing motivation, hope and morality.
• Having a hero can increase one's own sense of power.

After the 19'51/52 cataleptic episode, as society became more complex and systematised, the compensatory heroes (Blek the Rock/Zembla, etc.) helped to fight the erosion of family and societal values, the feeling of individual powerlessness. That need raised from the compulsion to leap to fame and fortune outside the grid, the rules of the system. The choice of the intellect as the major — indeed the unique — media of expression resulted in telepresence or telerepresentation of a 'persona in the tube'.

Until these scenarii sicken the individual 🢂 Sick of being sick... Thence appears the cure to the dramatic model generated by sedentarisation.

➲ Get rid of the attachments of the mind, let life return to its origin, so that it can grow on its own!

道德經第七十一章

知不知上；不知知病。

夫唯病病，是以不病。

聖人不病，以其病病，是以不病。

Dao De Jing Chapter 71 — A. Charles Muller

71. There is nothing better than to know that you don't know...

There is nothing better than to know that you don't know.

Not knowing, yet thinking you know —

This is sickness.

Only when you are sick of being sick

Can you be cured

The sage's not being sick

Is because she is sick of sickness.

Therefore she is not sick.

Dao De Jing Chapter 71 — James Legge

(The disease of knowing)

To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest (attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.

It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease. He knows the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he does not have it.

Dao De Jing Chapter 71 — Arthur Waley

To know when one does not know is best.

To think one knows when one does not know is a dire disease.

Only he who recognizes this disease as a disease

Can cure himself of the disease.

The Sage's way of curing disease

Also consists in making people recognize their diseases as diseases

And thus ceasing to be diseased.

「知不知，上；不知知，病。

夫唯病病，是以不病；

聖人不病，以其病病，是以不病。」

白話譯文：

能體會得大道之難知，這是上焉者；

對大道無所體會而又強以為知，這是病痛。

唯有對這樣之病痛有所對治，這樣才能免於病痛。

聖人之所以不患此病痛，就是因為他能對治這病痛，因而能不患此病痛！

藥方：

對於自己所知的要知清楚，對於所不知的則常存敬意！

事物之總體本源是難以了知的，但卻可以以生命相遇！

去除心知執著，讓自家生命回到本源，好自生長！

Get rid of the attachments of the mind, let life return to its origin, so that it can grow on its own!

識得病痛，當可免得病痛，這是認不是的工夫！

To No•Mad-ism/without any ownership or sickness complexes* — these abnormal mental conditions chiefly caused by repressed emotions. ⥤ without a Mind of its Own (≍ Narcissism 自戀/虛榮)

* From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complectī (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”).