William,
There is not a chair. There is a chair, and its environment, and us. Nothing
can be extracted or isolated. Everything is intimate with everything. Kant
was interested in one thing at a time, and one thing in particular; whereas,
the Universe is not, and is not "that way". Each thing says something about
the universe, not about itself. There are no things-in-themselves. It's the
same with us!
This is getting toward something like what Zen dharma is all about.
But, we cannot speak about it. We can, however, point. As poetry points. We
can only experience. There is no thinking things out.
*I'm* just pointing; but there's always windage, and drop. And, prior to that,
parallax.
A person must practice. Pointing goes only so far.
No practice, and someone's or something's pointing misses the mark, because the
mark is in YOU, and it's called Experience. Not thought.
Anyway, I'm an advocate of practice, and don't hide it.
--Joe
> William Rintala <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> So when we look a a chair we see "Chair" with all of the baggage that we've
> accumulated with regards to chairness. In truth there is no chair. There is
> an
> object in space that someone could hit you with but the concepts, memoriesÂ
> and
> words are all illusory. There's just this...thingness.
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