Day 2
Building a Culture
"Communication is necessary in all aspects of life. Thus, if people are to cooperate (literally to "work together") they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes the shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority for the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority."
-David Bohm, On Dialogue
"Human self-understanding is inseparable from participating of what is called a culture. It is useful to have a word that stands for the whole of that associated set of human beings have created for themselves beyond the evanescent satisfaction of their wants. But we must not be misled by it A culture is not a doctrine or a set of consistent teachings or conclusions about human life. It is not something we can set before ourselves as the subject of learning, any more that we can set self understanding before ourselves as something to be learned. It is that what is learned in everything we may learn."
Amable Sanchez
Dr. Amable Sanchez Torres is a very special person. He is a writer, theologian, philosopher, lawyer and notary public. We have the opportunity to invite and receive him to one of our conversations. We discussed with him about what is a pioneer and the characteristic of one. He gave us some examples of what is a pioneer and what tools are important in a pioneer life. For being a Pioneer I understand of him that we have to know ourselves in order to transcend. I was very exciting listening to all of his experiences being a pioneer in many experiences of his life one of them is when he was very young and he has to work in a production of wheat. Another great story and the one I consider one of his most courageous decision in his life is when he arrives to Guatemala from Spain in the time he was a priest of the Catholic Church to spread Christianity in some rural places of Guatemala. I will never forget his first visit to MPC and I know he felt invited to come another time.
Shooting the past
Is a movie divided in three parts. This movie is about a photographic library threatened by closure. The collection is about ten million pictures. A company bought the house where the collection is in order to transform it into a business school. All the staff were concerned because they didn’t like to divide the collection because they have to remove it before the new construction start. It was very difficult for them to sell all the collection together so Oswald who was part of the staff prepared a plan so he find many pictures that make the story of the grandmother of the president of the company. It is in that way that the president was convinced to do not divide the collection. So the president of the company found someone in the U.S to buy the ten million pictures.
I loved the kind of pictures that were in the collection and also the different kind of stories that were found in there. In my life I appreciate pictures because they are the only physical things that we can keep from the past.
"Communication is necessary in all aspects of life. Thus, if people are to cooperate (literally to "work together") they have to be able to create something in common, something that takes the shape in their mutual discussions and actions, rather than something that is conveyed from one person who acts as an authority to the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority for the others, who act as passive instruments of this authority."
-David Bohm, On Dialogue
"Human self-understanding is inseparable from participating of what is called a culture. It is useful to have a word that stands for the whole of that associated set of human beings have created for themselves beyond the evanescent satisfaction of their wants. But we must not be misled by it A culture is not a doctrine or a set of consistent teachings or conclusions about human life. It is not something we can set before ourselves as the subject of learning, any more that we can set self understanding before ourselves as something to be learned. It is that what is learned in everything we may learn."
Amable Sanchez
Dr. Amable Sanchez Torres is a very special person. He is a writer, theologian, philosopher, lawyer and notary public. We have the opportunity to invite and receive him to one of our conversations. We discussed with him about what is a pioneer and the characteristic of one. He gave us some examples of what is a pioneer and what tools are important in a pioneer life. For being a Pioneer I understand of him that we have to know ourselves in order to transcend. I was very exciting listening to all of his experiences being a pioneer in many experiences of his life one of them is when he was very young and he has to work in a production of wheat. Another great story and the one I consider one of his most courageous decision in his life is when he arrives to Guatemala from Spain in the time he was a priest of the Catholic Church to spread Christianity in some rural places of Guatemala. I will never forget his first visit to MPC and I know he felt invited to come another time.
Shooting the past
Is a movie divided in three parts. This movie is about a photographic library threatened by closure. The collection is about ten million pictures. A company bought the house where the collection is in order to transform it into a business school. All the staff were concerned because they didn’t like to divide the collection because they have to remove it before the new construction start. It was very difficult for them to sell all the collection together so Oswald who was part of the staff prepared a plan so he find many pictures that make the story of the grandmother of the president of the company. It is in that way that the president was convinced to do not divide the collection. So the president of the company found someone in the U.S to buy the ten million pictures.
I loved the kind of pictures that were in the collection and also the different kind of stories that were found in there. In my life I appreciate pictures because they are the only physical things that we can keep from the past.