What is "to know"?

You cannot suppress "the will to history."    The task of the historian, as with any human being actually, is to delve into the unwritten history, the history that no one wanted (or wants) to talk about.  The connection with the visual arts...well, I don't know...but I do want to feel, to see. and perhaps to know when I am brave enough to confront my, and maybe our, history.

The dharma is not broken nor lost nor forgotten. 
 

ὁ ... ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ

ὁ ... ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_unexamined_life_is_not_worth_living

The hetero homo (as in heter-o-dox, homo-sapiens)
myself

And then I understood:
Young people do not even have the word "non-conformist" in their lexicon.   They have not thought deeply about enough about to care.  "Cool" is conformity.

Non-conformists were born in the 1950's and had their heydey in the 1960's and gradually died out in the 1970's.
Nowadays there are very few non-conformists.  Everyone wants to have 20,000 friends on Facebook.

Even the French, with their sophisticated sense of individuality, have gone America, and now they admire and ape Americans, thinking that if Lady Gaga is good enough for Americans, or if Michael Jackson had, with "Thriller," the best-selling album of all time, then, ergo, they must be artistic geniuses and that the French must pay obeisance to them as well.

If you think something so, that is fine [for you].

And I want to know what you think [and why you think so].

But I do not and will not [have to] always agree with you.

The ready rejoinder

When fellow Americans ask me "Why do you speak so softly?" or exclaim, "You're so quiet!"
I now have a ready reply, even if not exactly (literally) the truth,

"I spent part of my childhood in the U.K. where it's considered uncouth to shout in public, especially to get attention."

Americans are so disingenuous on this point.

-Lily H.

溯 (源); 逆 (流)

溯

溯源 [sù yuán] 向上寻找水的发源处。喻指探求本源。汤用彤《汉魏两晋南北朝佛教史》：“阴阳、五行、天文、医经、房中均溯源于黄帝。”


http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E6%BA%AF%E6%

逆

逆流 nìliú

against the stream / adverse current / a counter-current / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=niliu