Let's find out the path of the average life into the harvest - an open letter to Viktor Alimasov
An open letter to Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Viktor Alimasov
Letter to Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Viktor Alimasov Dear brother Viktor! It has been many years, I have known you through your articles published in "Tafakkur" magazine and newspapers.
First "Doctor of Philosophy" Although the scientific title of the author scared me, the vitality and sincerity of the opinions expressed in your articles, and especially the spirit of inviting the reader to a conversation in them, made Kamina a permanent student and fan of Viktor Alimasov. I started looking for your articles, I got used to reading with a pen in hand.
First "Philosophy or the Taste of Thinking", later "Man..." reading your books, I discovered you more for myself. I planned to address you with the questions I had in my heart, but sometimes I didn't have the courage, sometimes other reasons did not allow me.
How many years have passed since then. Fortunately, the opinions expressed in your articles do not get old, that is, eternal topics, endless problems, continuous conclusions, analysis and research ...
it can be captured at any time and subjected to the call of observation until the avra-astari. Fortunately, philosophy, which exists in the layers of human thought, does not obey the laws of time and space, and in its vast expanses there is a place for any thinking person.
So, Brother Viktor, when the time comes, let's have a chat, let's think, the customers of "Tafakkur" will not be left behind, if there are those who want to join our conversation, go ahead! After all, there is a thinking person who is not lucky enough to boil in the cauldron of philosophy, and at the same time, there is an opinionated person in whose heart philosophy is constantly boiling.
East and West: has a mutual compromise been found or not?... There is probably no philosopher in the world who has not puzzled over the topic of human perfection.
When we say "perfection", we mean more spiritual and religious things. You are "Old Style" In your article, you tried to compare the status of perfection from Eastern and Western points of view.
You point out that while for the East, the tendency to search around spiritual problems is the priority, for the West, it is preferred to be occupied with worldly problems. However, you consider the attempt to search for the roots of development both in the inner and outer world as a great discovery of mankind.
If you calculate, you will be biased again. "The East looks for a mature person from the soul, from spirituality, from a person's desire for God and infinity.
According to the teachings of the Buddha, you write that "right view, right thinking, right speech, right living, and right enjoyment are the factors of maturity". It is difficult to reject this definition, but shouldn't we remember that the concept of "right" that you believe in Buddha is also extremely relative?!
Let's put the Maghreb-u Mashriq, the region and the nation aside, aren't the criteria of "rightness" extremely diverse, extremely diverse, even contradictory in the eyes of blood brothers or sisters who grew up in two neighboring regions, two neighboring villages, or even in the same family? You are careful not to touch the East and write that "The outer world consists of endless and useless worries.
It is like a bonfire, the closer a person gets to this bonfire, the more it burns. Therefore, it is necessary for a person to be free from acquiring wealth, fighting for a throne, a position, and indulging in pleasures in the mortal world." That is, you want to say that the West is bad, let the West build its face?
From the point of view of the essence, we cannot deny such a philosophy, but don't we find it difficult to find a supporter of such a belief? Let's be honest, Brother Victor, the current administration is intoxicated with tyranny, and you, who are living happily and moving from time to time, are among our contemporaries (Maghrib or Eastern - it doesn't matter!) "look, this is such a great Will there be a brave man who says, "Let's gather up all our temptations and live a humble life while there is a teaching"?
Thirty years have passed since the publication of the book in which this article was published. It is possible that the views and criteria have changed, for example, in another place of the article, you try to evaluate the value of two poles from the point of view of objectivity.
That is, rationalism and materialism in Western philosophy encouraged fascination with the external world and "ultimately ... led to viewing man as a secondary thing"; And in the 17th century, you say, "basically, it became a doctrine of constantly renewing society, state management, political institutions, and production methods, and even changing them in revolutionary ways.
Man's submission to the influence of material life turned this doctrine into a leading ideological force in the 19th-20th centuries." At this point, let's take a breath, Brother Viktor, let's put our hats on the chair and think about the phenomenon of "being fascinated by the external world", "looking at the human being as a secondary thing" and finally "becoming the leading ideological force of the doctrine of being influenced by material life". If we describe more simply the essence of the value of ancient life, which you tried to explain in three sentences, "The main and primary idea is development: vital administration, prosperity and comfort, that's all!" we can say.
That is, no matter what happens in life, even if you add up the value of a person himself, everything is nothing in front of this idea! Second, third, tenth degree!
At this point, a transverse question arises: is the path chosen by the East the right one or the path chosen by the West? Which one is better?
In my opinion, there is no need for you and us to be confused about this. After all, the East is life, - that is, in almost all spheres of life (social and political system building, social science, statecraft, army, personal education, science, technology, art, etc.), it has passed and is passing on the path of full or partial assimilation of Western methods.
Nevertheless, you try to maintain a golden balance with your following words: "If the West is spreading its achievements in changing the external material world to the East, then the East is influencing it with its rich spiritual-cultural and religious-philosophical wealth." In this conclusion, you seem to put an equal sign as an expression of mutual "give and take" relations between the two poles, and in my opinion, the popularization of Western ideas in the East is much more important than the popularization of Eastern ideas in the West. Note that I am not "right" or "wrong" about this.
I don't want to fully reveal my opinions on the concept, but I don't hesitate to say that I am in favor of abandoning the old incredible achievements that come in exchange for the disintegration of the oriental family institution. Because if the value of the family is lost, no other power (even if it has progressed fifty-hundred times from now) will not be able to preserve humanity!
Unfortunately, there is no place for the world to look at such purely personal conclusions. The global world is flying rapidly in the sky of development with the help of steel wings.
As you watch this flight from the sidelines at a level that confuses the common sense, natural and logical questions will arise: what are our dreams that are envisioned by our heavenly flights? Where are our destinations?
At what cost and at what expense are we still infatuated with development? Can anyone foresee the end result?!
Discovered divine power Brother Victor! In one place, while noting that it has been only 6 thousand years since mankind stepped on the path of culture and development, you write, "So, it has not been long since man began to create a perfect world, so the research is still ahead...".
6,000 years of development research results "still ahead" you say, I am waiting for your help in the thought that in the 30 years that have passed since the publication of your article, we will find something worthwhile. Aren't you laughing, Brother Victor?
You are a wise person, as you admit, your mother is from Buryatistan, and your father is from Uzbekistan. Not only in your name, but because of fate, you have such a "global" in your body I believe that you will accept it correctly if I express that you have a high level of respect for your personality because of your way of thinking and your way of speaking.
Respecting my attitude, I think you will not accuse Kamina of impatience and haste. After all, we are talking about billions of people living on the level of poverty all over the world!
The way of thinking of billions of people is being remembered, the way of thinking is reflected in their lifestyle! Qualitative updates in the psyche of humanity, which can be compared to the Gondwana phenomenon used in the science of geography, are meant!
Uzbekistan is a part of this vast region, and a handful of humanity is from Uzbekistan - this country, these compatriots are meant! It's natural to be a little uncomfortable asking you to give a reasonable answer to an unreasonable question.
Nevertheless, as an exception, it is possible to share some assumptions in a conditional-hypothetical status. There is a nation of thoughtful people who aspire to rise from the ranks of perfection, seek and seek, and renounce pleasure.
You wrote that there are many narrow streets, roundabouts, alleys, dead ends in philosophy. This reasoning can also be applied to the path of perfection.
After all, the path of perfection is not a broad, smooth and palm-shaped avenue, but a single path - a path. It is not a canal or a river whose water is flowing with waves - it's just a sledgehammer moving forward.
People of perfect status will not grow out of this path, this valley. The ultimate goal of perfection is not clear-cut, if you throw your hat in the sky and say that such-and-such slanderers have reached the finish line, such-and-such state, slanderous society has improved!
In addition, if the perfection of a half-person is reflected in the improvement of society, then only if such improvement becomes popular, it is appropriate if personal perfection is welcomed and recognized as social maturity. As a person explores the environment, the existence, step by step, and strives for perfection, he simultaneously fulfills the task of creating a perfect world.
It's a natural, logical mission! Isn't there so much wisdom and beauty in the realization of this truth, brother Victor?!
Wasn't your expression "Philosophy - the taste of thinking" born in such a line of thoughts?! "...one of the great discoveries of mankind," we read in another place, " it is that he realized that this perfect world is created by his soul, thinking and work".
Dear Journalist! Let's pay attention, you - he is a contemporary, compatriot, and national wise man, is specially emphasizing the incomparable favor that our Lord deserves for his servants, that is, this light it reminds us of the eternal truth that the world is created, enlightened and brought to light by human beings with their spirit, thinking and work.
He glorifies you - Human, human thinking, personality. It is true that this earth, which cannot be grasped by eyes, minds, and perceptions, is that sky, there is nothing beyond the will of the Almighty, and at the same time, it is said that He, that is, the Lord of the universe, saves man only with the participation of man!
This is a symbol of divine faith in human thinking, intelligence, and spiritual power! The way of thinking of every person, in particular, of every young person who is growing up, the wisdom that fills the mind with content, and if it is absorbed into the mind of the general public, its scope is capable of becoming a universal real power, a call full of magic and miracles, the inexhaustible power of the human heart, the invincible and indomitable will - It is a long and arduous life-giving path that ensures its transformation into a blissful reality, this is the teaching!
Brother Victor! In my opinion, such views of program importance are continued in your comments on the topic of happiness.
For fifty or sixty years now, I have been a witness to discussions about happiness (sometimes written, sometimes verbal) by representatives of each generation. The desire to live happily is not a sin, sharing one's thoughts about it is also a completely voluntary desire; It is also inevitable that the characteristics of the era are noticeable in the imagination of happiness.
Namely: person, happiness and era! Choosing a profession, dreaming of future dreams, intentions to achieve a certain goal and position in society also serve as scenes of personal happiness.
And you, brother Victor, have raised the standard of the concept of happiness to extraordinary heights. For example, your words "The attitude towards happiness is changing" makes a person think hard.
This is not a simple or vivid description, it is a conclusion. It is no question that the development of the concept of happiness over the years will eventually change a person, from human values to the macro world.
"A person always has the opportunity to live happily." "A person is not born happy, but is born with the opportunity to live happily." "There is something higher than happiness, and it is duty. One cannot find happiness until one considers one's duty as happiness." You can repeat these observations about happiness, but since the very concept of happiness is changing, what about duty?
Isn't duty at the heart of happiness?! Moreover, how much study, how much knowledge, and how much patience will our young friends need to understand the wisdom you are trying to convey?!
"The possibility of a happy life" How many people know, realize, and turn into a way of life the great truth at the heart of your sentence?! Do we have the courage to approximate such bitter truths?..
Surrounded by such questions, I was looking for a way to get out of the pit. As I underlined the following sentences at the beginning of your title article, I re-read: "One lifetime is too short to reach perfection.
Two lifetimes, maybe three." My heart goes out, brother Victor. When he heard the words of Ustaz Ghaibullah al-Salam, he said, "Obba, aunty!" there was a habit of pulling out...
Unfortunately, there is no strength, no will to guarantee a second or third life in this light, but, look, the three words spoken casually put another huge problem in front of us. If the "Calendar of Perfection" is created...
You want to say that one lifetime is enough to reach perfection, brother Victor? You included the following narration taken from some source in the book: "The children of Adam and Eve lived to be nine hundred and more, but as the wickedness increased, the life of a person became shorter and shorter and fell to sixty or seventy years." Is that so?..
In this way, soon the life of a person will be equal to the life of a mosquito, rubbing?! In any case, the length and brevity of human life must not have "looked" at the wickedness of our nature, this is a separate topic-problem, of course!
And I... at the same time, I thought that my contemporaries, who were alive at the same time, should have planned their life path in order to advance from the steps of perfection.
At a time when you are worrying about whether three lives are enough to reach perfection, I would like to raise the issue that a person who lives an average of 80 years still has the desire to rise to the status we want, so it is impossible to get his plan and calculation. After all, we have a habit of making daily, weekly, monthly and yearly plans, why should we not plan the golden moments of our life?!
It is available as a guide, recommendation, advice... Our efforts aimed at the promotion of spirituality deserve great praise.
You continue to show the greatness of our desire to popularize reading culture. It is inevitable that all of these will serve as the foundations of the building of our consciousness and potential.
Another question arises: who will teach how to raise the height of the magnificent building of our dreams? Do you have a blueprint of this building?
"A person must be taught not to waste his life before he can walk, talk and live." "The human race is actually born in debt. Life itself is given to debt." "For those of us who are used to thinking with ready-made models..." "Until now, I have not met the value of time and the value of happiness." "A person who wants manners does not find a throne, a person who finds a throne does not want a throne." "The life of one who is lost is wiser than that of one who is not lost." "The wisdom found by the lost is a lesson to the one who is not lost." "To try not to go astray is to go astray." A book is a need for an institution or organization that takes care to popularize such life wisdom, which can be gleaned from your articles, and make it a moral property of the general public.
In other words, if we accept the average life as 80 years, let's determine the optimal, most effective path to perfection during these years, let's develop recommendations, let's put it into practice. Where are you, miraculous optimism?!
It may seem that I have missed the point, but regardless of this, there is a shortcoming in the organization of our cultural and educational life. Would you agree with me, brother Victor?
The responsibility of eliminating this defect falls primarily on philosophers, and we encourage our philosophers to seriously cooperate with our experts in the field of spirituality and enlightenment. So that as a result of this cooperation, a "Perfect Calendar of Life" will be created for our young men and women.
Tasks that need to be continued every 5, 10... 20...
80 years and beyond should be determined, the rapidly changing times, lifestyles, laws of globalization of national and universal values should be taken into account in the calendar. The main feature of the 21st century is reflected in the immediate obsolescence of any novelty.
It's interesting that the novelty is getting old before many people can understand it, giving way to the next novelty. The cosmic speed of time changes does not surprise people.
This change, this intensity is testing people with extreme cruelty, the test itself is making them scream. And we, in my opinion, do not go beyond social-political, spiritual-educational, national-local, material, moral, etc.
opportunities - to advance our criteria, to raise them to our heads in the place of need. And the law of development is cruel: it absolutely does not wait, does not stop, does not slow down!
If you don't say it, who will?! We are a nation that holds fast to national values, we walk around the world with one foot, and we want the other foot not to be separated from the space and environment of nationality, national identity, and national spirituality.
What an honor! Honorable, but...how difficult, complicated, difficult to live in this way!
When the time comes, we will be happy that our new people who are formed under the influence of the mixture of Eastern and Western values and concepts are increasing, but it is not right to turn a blind eye to the fact that such formation is taking place at the expense of great mental, social, economic, spiritual, moral, etc. stress.
Doesn't this situation remind you of a person in a boat where the oar in the right hand is moving forward and the oar in the left hand is moving back, brother Victor?! There is a sentence in your book: "In people's minds, living for oneself is becoming the main goal." The following is a more detailed confession from the language of another of your characters: "Yes, Uzbeks have learned to live as a family, relatives, neighborhood.
No matter what they do, no matter what they strive for, they look after their family and children. I don't like this feature of our people.
For example, when it is necessary, he cannot tell black is black, he thinks about how he will look after my family, children, the neighborhood, the country. Nachora, we are a nation that has been accustomed to such views for centuries." And: "We Uzbeks are a nation that lives for family, children, people - relatives, neighborhoods.
"Live for yourself" that is far from us. Therefore, there is no difference in our thoughts or in our zikr.
After all, shouldn't a person live for himself first of all? After all, isn't a person born to realize his unique talent and life plans?" These words bring to mind the bitter rebuke of our grandfather Abdulla Qadiri: "You are people who have fallen victim to familiarity." In addition, our religious faith has the concept of "silai rahm".
Look at the delicacy, even the fragility of the situation! We do not get tired of condemning the habits of individualism and selfishness in the West, however, if you think about it more deeply, the development of the West has sprouted from this same individualism and selfishness.
Condemning such vices does not end the work, it does not create goodwill, it is becoming necessary to go deeper into their depths, to consider their causes and consequences from the bottom to the bottom. As an example, while in our country it is especially appreciated to receive information from relatives who are in need of help, to extend a helping hand to them, in Western countries, such tasks are assigned to the state by law (with the exception of voluntary assistance).
That is, institutions such as aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, neighbors, even family members are exempted from humanitarian actions. You, brother Victor, note that you like these boldly spoken words, and you do not forget that we need to be careful in the instructions published for the general public in the press or in books.
For example, you approve that an Uzbek should not live outside the family, neighborhood, and society, and with this, in my opinion, you seem to avoid finding a solution to the problem. It is true that the situation is extremely complicated, and because of this, we need to clearly analyze and research it, so that we can ease the burden of our children who are faced with the clutches of "alien values".
Goodbye, "Philosophy or..." the times when your book was published are behind us, an atmosphere is being formed in our country to openly share opinions about solutions to any sensitive and fragile issues. In particular, if you don't clearly and confidently say what wise people like you think about the topic at hand, who will?!
Who will find the solution? Who gives recommendations?!
Brother Victor, you are a wise scientist who has dedicated your life and your meaningful activity to the streets of "the taste of thinking". You have the status of a teacher worthy of passion and respect.
Therefore, you have a moral right to lead your readers and fans to this street that you have discovered, to share your thoughts in a friendly manner, and to be the leader of heated discussions. Harmony, orderliness, balance...
"The labor of perfection" Your comments on the phenomenon of harmony and disharmony in your article will fill the reader with serious thoughts. You expressed these two concepts with the words "correct" and "non-correct", which are rarely used in our practice.
You put forward the idea that perfection is in harmony, that is, in order. In fact, the most primary wisdom of life is action, and the subsequent wisdom is determined by the harmony of this action with the law of order.
In this sense, the only right path to perfection is expressed in meaningful words such as harmony, orderliness, harmony, symmetry, standard, balance... intelligence, ingenuity.
As much as the importance of integrity is in the life of an individual, it is also necessary in the life of society and the state. It is also clear that if the end of instability is tragic for the individual, it will lead to the decline of the society and the state.
There is, of course, competition between the two concepts in question. "Man has been trying to reconcile these differences, but he has not succeeded yet.
Because wild nature is still on the disordered side". It is true that man always lives in the desire for harmony, seeks and works for this desire, but...
Is it right to blame the "sin" of not achieving this goal on nature's neck? However, the greatest law of order can be found and observed not in civilized life, but in wild nature itself.
The real reason for the inconsistencies in the cultural life is nothing more than the lack of understanding or unwillingness to understand the requirements of harmony and balance in wild nature, contempt for it. In short, the relationship between order and disorder is an immutable and eternal truth among conflicting concepts such as good and evil, good and bad, night and day, black and white - is a dialectical unity.
There is also an Uzbek stratagem, brother Victor! The articles you write cannot be read indifferently.
If historical figures, famous artists, scholars, as well as women, men and women relations, as well as articles and essays devoted to the secrets of understanding the world are compiled into a single book, the scientific and mystical treasure of a wise person will become a significant integrated source. I believe that this treasure will be a very necessary and valuable resource especially for our youth.
Stratagem I read in your article: "More than four thousand tracts on stratagems were written in ancient China." The treatises on this topic, which are distributed as the science of thinking and overcoming, testify to the existence of such an inexhaustible and solid source of strength and foundation of the thinking of the Chinese people. Uzbek thinking is no less than the strategies you wrote.
It has been around for a long time! The Uzbek stratagem is eternal and invincible with its existence and its ability to make nothing exist!
Brother Victor! I just sent you a snippet of what I had to say.
Topics, issues, and problems that are ready to boil in the cauldron of philosophy are being threshed. My letter to our compatriot Sayyora Ghulam's "Parish or American Diaries" "New York.
Manhattan. New York College of International Students.
I stepped inside saying Bismillah. I came across a two-sided escalator that reached the height of a two-story building.
One went down and one went up. I stared thoughtfully.
"Should I go down or up?. Do not think, do not be afraid, rise, rise!" I said to myself.
I went up the escalator and saw a picture of Abu Ali ibn Sina painted on one wall. I was proud.
There is no peak that science and thinking cannot conquer. My lost imagination took me across the skies to my motherland..." Kamoli with all due respect Khurshid DOSTMUHAMMAD.
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