Heidegger and Zen #philosophy #buddhism

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_Ekaggacittassa_ (Pali): singularity of spirit/nous/citta/’mind; burning away (by wisdom) of all objectivity

Japanese Zen from Chinese Chan and ultimately the original Pali/Sanskrit _Jhana_ ("jhayati/dhyana", i.e. "to burn off & away) is _theurgic—_ we cannot get there from here _ex nihilo_ by dint of reification ouroboruses alone. _Melete_ (Gr.) remains immanent to instrumental reason as a magnifying glass is used to increase something's resolution; _mneme_ (Gr.) re-collection, de-centration, dis-objectification is required for _anamnesis_ to apprehend and appreciate that Fourfold beyond serialized causal inventories for _enframing_ augury: burn the haystack to acquire the needle, rather than scrutinize each desiccated husk. The hay, (vritta, bhava); the flame, theurgic subjugation (nirodha) thereof; the glass used to not to magnify individual scatterings but to concentrate light, the "skillful means" of dis-objectified _presence._ (Cribbed via Ken Wheeler aka "Theoria Apophasis).

[PatrickKehoe-jj]

But in the end, he aliened his thinking to kind of cultural materialism, though he would likely reject that framing... that's why is originations of art where sort of second-ordering... I go into that in the second chapter of the art book I am writing; I joked with Michael Millerman about taking on Heidegger... was an interesting process. Best to go down swinging? :)