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wolven7'Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.' - Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, selected stories and other writings, "A New Refutation of Time"
I was watching great swaths of cut down trees being ground up inn an industrial sized mulcher-- It was at least one and a half storeys high-- and the dust from that addingn to the haze, in the city, while a guy in an SUV drove past on my right, and I noticed that he had tattoos. It all converged to make me think about the fact that many... Well, that people of a certain temperment will have the phrase "That which sustains me also destroys me," tattooed on them, somewhere. Which, of course, made me start picking that phrase apart, and I came home, watched "Angel," and did some fucking about on the internet.
The result of that fucking about is this essay 'Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Modern Physics' which could also easily be called "The Physics of Compassion." It's nine years old, and a little flaky, in some areas, but it's still a pretty good read, and part of a conversation endeavour which I whole-heartedly support, as you know.
So, there you are, then.
I'm off to get some real work done.
Ta.
I was watching great swaths of cut down trees being ground up inn an industrial sized mulcher-- It was at least one and a half storeys high-- and the dust from that addingn to the haze, in the city, while a guy in an SUV drove past on my right, and I noticed that he had tattoos. It all converged to make me think about the fact that many... Well, that people of a certain temperment will have the phrase "That which sustains me also destroys me," tattooed on them, somewhere. Which, of course, made me start picking that phrase apart, and I came home, watched "Angel," and did some fucking about on the internet.
The result of that fucking about is this essay 'Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Modern Physics' which could also easily be called "The Physics of Compassion." It's nine years old, and a little flaky, in some areas, but it's still a pretty good read, and part of a conversation endeavour which I whole-heartedly support, as you know.
So, there you are, then.
I'm off to get some real work done.
Ta.
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With all the 'galactic' references
Date: 2007-06-02 03:34 am (UTC)I kept on reading
The Dalai Lama is an honorary professor at Emory University. Among other things, they're doing exchange programs in which, among other things, physics and biology are being taught at Tibetan monasteries.
He points directly at why "The theory of everything" is something I'm trying to avoid. Lovecraft gives another good example of that with his quote of the benevolence of our inability to comprehend.
Re: With all the 'galactic' references
Date: 2007-06-02 05:14 am (UTC)Then we shall be enemies:
Date: 2007-06-02 05:23 am (UTC)damn, that picture's at work. I'll send it to you Monday. Just imagine two enormous luminescent cats towering over a city for the moment.
Re: Then we shall be enemies:
Date: 2007-06-02 05:24 am (UTC)