Forwarded from Ariya Khattiya Sangha
TOTAL SAMSARA AFFIRMATION
Fight without the fighter
Struggle without the struggler
Win without the winner
Fight without the fighter
Struggle without the struggler
Win without the winner
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Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!'
— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot
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Nietzsche saw in ancient Greece that Man first became “philosophical” when he began to wrestle with perspectives on reality.
Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the various pre-Socratics began to ponder what is reality. What is Nature? As the Greeks called it: Physics. In ancient Greece, Man began to think dynamically; he broke out of the previous paradigms and reached beyond paradigms.
Isn’t this the perfect ideal in our times of breakneck speed of change? Can’t the only way be the way that puts all our paradigms to the test? Isn’t this fulfilling Darwin’s principle of championing that which makes us most capable of “trying on” new “fits”.
What is technology? Only the rapid transformation of our environments? 200 years ago we were farmers and horse breeders. Then we shoved the peasants of medieval times into factories and cities. Now phones have been sellotaped to our faces and our ideological paradigms are crumbling once again with a neo-Protestant movement.
How can anything rigid respond to this? If you “had it all figured out” twenty years ago, your ideas would have been smashed to pieces by the arrival of Neuralink technologies last year. Isn’t it more honest to say the uncertainty is the constant, and no frozen perspective will work for now?
The best you can do is develop an attitude of dynamism, ready to change at a moment's notice. This is the most terrible thing you can tell the halfwit who likes to put on the dress of a philosopher. As Nietzsche castigated, beware of those who want to make a perfect system; our age is not the age of certainty.
Could it be? The winner is not the strongest ideology, the most perfect system, or even the “truest.” The “way” is to throw a posture of being able to see one perspective, then obliterate it and reconstruct another.
Can you envision the Christ-centered reality, then moments later dethrone him and lift Muhammad as the higher ideal? Can you then ditch both along with the Abrahamic paradigm and develop a cold rationalism? Can you allow your rationalism to carry you to a biological realism? Can you shear through that materialism into quantum physics implying an inevitable Spectral Revolution? Can you grapple with the idea that several of these paradigms may be correct all at once?
Newtonian physics still works for plotting artillery trajectories, but Einstein’s relativity is the paradigm needed for GPS satellites. Nietzsche called this Perspectivism. Jorjani is one of the few people who takes Nietzsche’s Perspectivism seriously and proposes we play with this scary toy.
This is not bizarre or without historical context either. The stereotypical Zen monk says this all the time: the way is no way. Rigidness, fixed thinking, and mental stiffness are the primary obstacles the Eastern monks seek to smash through to achieve elite thinking, or in their words: clarity.
— Uberboyo
Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the various pre-Socratics began to ponder what is reality. What is Nature? As the Greeks called it: Physics. In ancient Greece, Man began to think dynamically; he broke out of the previous paradigms and reached beyond paradigms.
Isn’t this the perfect ideal in our times of breakneck speed of change? Can’t the only way be the way that puts all our paradigms to the test? Isn’t this fulfilling Darwin’s principle of championing that which makes us most capable of “trying on” new “fits”.
What is technology? Only the rapid transformation of our environments? 200 years ago we were farmers and horse breeders. Then we shoved the peasants of medieval times into factories and cities. Now phones have been sellotaped to our faces and our ideological paradigms are crumbling once again with a neo-Protestant movement.
How can anything rigid respond to this? If you “had it all figured out” twenty years ago, your ideas would have been smashed to pieces by the arrival of Neuralink technologies last year. Isn’t it more honest to say the uncertainty is the constant, and no frozen perspective will work for now?
The best you can do is develop an attitude of dynamism, ready to change at a moment's notice. This is the most terrible thing you can tell the halfwit who likes to put on the dress of a philosopher. As Nietzsche castigated, beware of those who want to make a perfect system; our age is not the age of certainty.
Could it be? The winner is not the strongest ideology, the most perfect system, or even the “truest.” The “way” is to throw a posture of being able to see one perspective, then obliterate it and reconstruct another.
Can you envision the Christ-centered reality, then moments later dethrone him and lift Muhammad as the higher ideal? Can you then ditch both along with the Abrahamic paradigm and develop a cold rationalism? Can you allow your rationalism to carry you to a biological realism? Can you shear through that materialism into quantum physics implying an inevitable Spectral Revolution? Can you grapple with the idea that several of these paradigms may be correct all at once?
Newtonian physics still works for plotting artillery trajectories, but Einstein’s relativity is the paradigm needed for GPS satellites. Nietzsche called this Perspectivism. Jorjani is one of the few people who takes Nietzsche’s Perspectivism seriously and proposes we play with this scary toy.
This is not bizarre or without historical context either. The stereotypical Zen monk says this all the time: the way is no way. Rigidness, fixed thinking, and mental stiffness are the primary obstacles the Eastern monks seek to smash through to achieve elite thinking, or in their words: clarity.
— Uberboyo
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