tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post4657789832719375424..comments2013-06-08T16:59:08.155-07:00Comments on Shaking off the Weirdness...: The Phenomonology of The Heart Sutra...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post-50517426204624643802009-01-18T10:33:00.000-08:002009-01-18T10:33:00.000-08:00That answer deserves it's own blog entry, which is...That answer deserves it's own blog entry, which is currently in the oven...<BR/><BR/>Good point about the "verb" aspect.Zen Trixterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555818256182135272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post-78537389701597530332009-01-17T20:30:00.000-08:002009-01-17T20:30:00.000-08:00...actually, a deliciously hilarious joke.I have a......actually, a deliciously hilarious joke.<BR/><BR/>I have a question: is 'dharma' best said to be 'truth' or is it the "form" (phenomenologically, the "merely formal" truth which is dialectically opposed to the "real or actual truth" -- which you get when a concept explicitly shows its inherent negation, that it implicitly contains its own opposite -- to use Hegelian language -- and which, speaking out of my Taoistly sutured hat, cancels itself out into emptiness, or cancels emptiness out into somethingness) which, to unenlightened consciousness seems to be the full truth, although to a more awakened consciousness comes to be understood as the form containing the emptiness which is its true 'truth'?<BR/><BR/>Which explains, really, why talk is cheap.<BR/><BR/>And would it add practical traction to use verbs ('existing' and 'non-existing') instead of the nouns ('existence' and 'non-existence')? <BR/><BR/>hihoMpetersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399880071535547324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post-29635137291564870412009-01-15T15:49:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:49:00.000-08:00I am wary of falling back and using "Being and non...I am wary of falling back and using "Being and non-Being" because frankly they're subjective terms, but I think that may be all that I have left.<BR/><BR/>Actually, that's sort of a funny joke in a philosophical way...<BR/><BR/>:)Zen Trixterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555818256182135272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post-51193988035813974962009-01-15T15:35:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:35:00.000-08:00Excellent point! Thank you, Gensho. I was strugg...Excellent point! Thank you, Gensho. I was struggling with trying to define terms without using the term to describe itself. It is a work in progress, as am I ;) Too bad I can't just hit "Edit" on myself, though!Zen Trixterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01555818256182135272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058257778014441745.post-12357884310764242652009-01-15T15:25:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:25:00.000-08:00A fine interpretation! It's not easy to bring the ...A fine interpretation! It's not easy to bring the Heart Sutra alive in a contemporary idiom, but you rose to the challenge. <BR/><BR/>Now, here's a further stretch: can you find different language for <I>existence</I> and <I>non-existence</I>? Considered phenomenologically, we might bracket the question of whether something exists or not. How does it appear to consciousness? <BR/><BR/>Can you restate it without the word <I>existence</I>?Genshohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532283859813871549noreply@blogger.com