Let me also say this is a lucid, profound reading. These kinds of posts reaffirm my intellectual indebtedness to the commons of online video!

This is such a beautiful and meaningful lecture. It brought tears to my eyes. I've made an effort to understand philosophy, precisely so I can appreciate these sorts of moments.

I’ve been reading Heidegger and waiting for this to click to me, and this video brought everything together for me to where I finally understand! Thank you! Your commitment to the Greek, German, and English language and bringing them together in an ensemble - shall we say :) - was super enlightening! Thanks again.

Someone did some diligent work providing subtitles, thank you so much. And thanks for the post.

great description of the language of Habel - very inspiring and gives a clear, gentle picture of how things appear when given the ability/space/chance to arise and be with us

A wonderful luminous lecture. I kept thinking of the Zen poets, who seem to reveal being itself in nature with particular purity...

24:35 wonder thalmazein : thrust of presence

4:40 being lets beings come to presence : letting beings be

40:12 phusis : rising and receding of all that is in its presence presencing and absencing

9:48 empowering and enabling is vajrapani of Buddhism

11:16 alethia : power of presence of all beings : vajrapani

You can't get Greek experience everywhere, and when you do it's gonna cost ya.

I didn't know that the guy from the Nespresso Commercial knew so much about the history of philosophy.

The earliest 'beings' were the immortals & Heidegger was low filth & despised by them.