[DMB]
I think that's an important point. Language has it's limits.
[Arlo]
What's amazing to me is that this is still Shocking Revelation to
some. True story, years ago (I mean over a decade), I was sitting in
our local college bar (Zeno's, "located directly over the center of
the earth") and someone brought up Zeno's paradox, but I mean brought
it up but didn't say "this is Zeno's paradox", just describe it (the
Achillies-Tortoise race). A friend of mine was like "Oh my god! Why
has no one thought of this before!!!" I really thought that right
there, on that spot, my friend was going to stop believing in motion.
It was like a short-circuit to him, like everything he was told
before hand was a fabrication. But this, THIS, exposed the TRUTH.
I hear so many echoes of that in Platt's ongoing heralding that
self-referential statements PROVE there are absolutes! Like a little
kid who stumbles on Zeno, and while not fully understanding it, goes
off to preach that this Revelation proves "movement" does not exist.
I think the Zennies got it, and I think that's where the MOQ lays a
better foundation. Trying to answer "does a dog have a buddha
nature?" only serves to diminish your own, only serves to cement you
in a false expectations about what "language" can offer. So while
some write endless theses or construct elaborate arguments or
tenaciously cling to a feel-good answer trying to "prove" the dog has
(or does not have) a buddha nature, the MOQ sides with the enlightened "mu".
[DMB]
Yea, that's it. It's too soulful to be technically correct, too
musical to be a form of logic.
[Arlo]
I had someone say to me once that words are like colors, when put
together certain ways, in certain contexts, create beautiful
"paintings" of experience. Cezanne arranged colors on a canvas,
Yoshikawa arranged words on a piece of paper. And in both cases the
end result was an artful extension of meaning and understanding.
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