JOSEPH CAMPBELL: There’s a wonderful formula that the Buddhists have for the Boddhisattva. The Bodhisattva, the one whose being, satra, is illumination, bodhi, who realizes his identity with eternity, and at the same time his participation in time. And the attitude is not to withdraw from the world when you realize how horrible it is, but to realize that this horror is simply the foreground of a wonder, and come back and participate in it. “All life is sorrowful,” is the first Buddhist saying, and it is. It wouldn’t be life if there were not temporality involved, which is sorrow, loss, loss, loss.BILL MOYERS: That’s a pessimistic note.JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Well, I mean, you got to say yes to it and say it’s great this way. I mean, this is the way God intended it.BILL MOYERS: You don’t really believe that?JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Well, this is the way it is, and I don’t believe anybody intended it, but this is the way it is. And Joyce’s wonderful line, you know, “History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake.” And the way to awake from it is not to be afraid and to recognize, as I did in my conversation with that Hindu guru or teacher that I told you of, that all of this as it is, is as it has to be, and it is a manifestation of the eternal presence in the world. The end of things always is painful; pain is part of there being a world at all.BILL MOYERS: But if one accepted that isn’t the ultimate conclusion, to say, well, "I won’t try to reform any laws or fight any battles."JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I didn’t say that.BILL MOYERS: Isn’t that the logical conclusion one could draw, though, the philosophy of nihilism?JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Well, that’s not the necessary thing to draw. You could say I will participate in this row, and I will join the army, and I will go to war.BILL MOYERS: I’ll do the best I can on Earth.JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I will participate in the game. It’s a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts. And that wonderful Irish saying, you know, “Is this a private fight, or can anybody get into it?” This is the way life is, and the hero is the one who can participate in it decently, in the way of nature, not in the way of personal rancor, revenge or anything of the kind.Let me tell you one story here, of a samurai warrior, a Japanese warrior, who had the duty to avenge the murder of his overlord. And he actually, after some time, found and cornered the man who had murdered his overlord. And he was about to deal with him with his samurai sword, when this man in the corner, in the passion of terror, spat in his face. And the samurai sheathed the sword and walked away. Why did he do that?BILL MOYERS: Why?JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Because he was made angry, and if he had killed that man then, it would have a personal act, of another kind of act, that’s not what he had come to do.BILL MOYERS: Let me tell you what happens to me when I read these stories, no matter the culture of their origin. I feel first this sense of wonder at the spectacle of the human imagination, simply groping to try to understand this existence. Does that ever happen to you?JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I tell you, mythology I think of as the homeland of the Muses, the inspirers of poetry. And to see life as a poem, and yourself participating in a poem, is what the myth does for you.BILL MOYERS: What do you mean, a poem?JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I mean a vocabulary in the form, not of words, but of acts and adventures, which is connotative, which connotes something transcendent of the action here and which yet informs the whole thing, so that you always feel in accord with the universal being.
CAMPBELL: You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.MOYERS: This sacred place does for you what The Plains did for the hunter.CAMPBELL: For them, the whole world was a sacred place. But our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it. Get a phonograph and put on the music that you really love, even if it’s corny music that nobody else respects.
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Campbell asked his team who they wanted to be.“You have to be made a certain way or you’re not even coming here anyway,” he said recently. “The fact that you’re doubted — ‘You’re not good enough, you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re not very smart, you can’t process, you’re throwing the ball out of bounds on fourth down, your coach is a meathead …'“You go through this whole deal, but yet you look at each other and you trust each other.”He trusted them. They trusted him. Three wins later, including a winner-take-all finale against the Vikings, Campbell slipped on a baby blue T-shirt that read “READY TO ROLL” in the victorious locker room at Ford Field. The Lions had repeated as division champs and clinched the NFC’s top seed for the first time in franchise history. Their story was still in their hands.
Within the soul, within the body social, there must be—if we are to experience long survival—a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify they unremitting recurrence of death.
“All the stuff that’s been here that has kept us from winning. If we really want to go where we want to go, we have to get this stuff out. The last bit of losing has to get out of here,” Dan Campbell
— The Winning Difference (@thewinningdiff1) January 15, 2024
A leader knows the effort, habits and attitude you need to be successful. pic.twitter.com/ugisT3OXH5
3 years ago. Hard knocks 2021.
— Restore the Roar 🦁 (@DETROlTLions313) January 15, 2024
Lions started the season 0-10 after hiring Dan Campbell and trading for Goff.
Pretty sweet looking back on this I’d say… pic.twitter.com/dzGbFur9Br
For the record.. that game was EXACTLY what Dan Campbell told you.
— Chris’ Crappy Takes (@crappy_takes) January 15, 2024
And don’t worry… we still have all the receipts from everybody that mocked him after this press conference.pic.twitter.com/XWR9v2altK
— Detroit Alejandro (@alexdf71) January 15, 2024
Career <50% from 50+Who had us kicking a 50+ FG?
Dan Campbell that’s who.
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“You’re good enough for Detroit, Jared Goff” - Dan Campbell with an epic locker room speech
— PropSwap (@PropSwap) January 15, 2024
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