kapwa: the self in others

Katrin De Guia's KAPWA: Self in Others Reviewed by Silvia L. Mayuga
Source: http://news.inq7.net/viewpoints/index.php?index=2&story_id=65026&col=114
(Thanks to kathang-pinay for the link.)
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"Imagination is key. But it, too, needs a key – re-acquaintance with the old folk sense of one Self that keeps Filipino culture intact against heavy onslaughts. What artists prove is that what has worked against us throughout our history could well reinstate us all to our true native genius.

Consciously reclaiming that is the first step to excising cancer cells in tight boundaries of personal ego, family, clan, tribe, profession – and imported institutions that remain an odd fit, largely serving only an English-eloquent elite spiritually stunted in isolation from the whole."

(excerpted from Mayuga's review)
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culture
strethening work
ancestries and homecomings
mixings
crossings and
consciously deep intersectings
nothing
lives outside
integration of (((B)))eing
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native genius
buddhanature
god consciousness
all my relations
interbeing
original self
kapwa consciousness
inner space
meditation
connection
wisdom compassion
infinite
infinence
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