Memory loss points to the materiality of mind while memory's exercise points to its immateriality. Mind is mysterious, but memorial mind is even more so, situated as it is at the crossroads of intentionality and time.
Category: Aphorisms and Observations
Rethinking and Second Thoughts
To rethink one's position is not necessarily to abandon, question, or revise it. One can rethink without having second thoughts.
The Aging Philosopher
Both animal and thinker, he faces two sorts of threats. Among the first, hardening of the arteries. Among the second, hardening of the categories. Which is worse depends on your categories. Either way, categories rule.
The Part-Time Monk
The part-time monk saves his spunk for the marital bunk.
Of Body and Buddha
When functioning optimally the body can seem, not only an adequate vehicle of our subjectivity, but a fitting and final realization of it as well. Soon enough, however, Buddha's Big Three shatters the illusion: sickness, old age, and death.
Everything partite is slated for partition. Shunning inanition, maintaining a wholesome spiritual ambition, work out your salvation with diligence.
A glance at the graphic to the left suggests that the order is: old age, sickness, and death. Prince Siddartha, forsaking the unreality of the royal compound, goes out in quest of the Real and the Uncompounded. But who is the figure standing on the ground? Siddartha the seeker as opposed to Siddartha the prince?
"The trouble is, you think you have time." (Attributed to Buddha)
Proof That No One is Wise
Correct a wise man and he will (sincerely) thank you.
All Sins of the Spirit
All sins are of the spirit even those that are of the flesh.
Dubious Compensation
In compensation for hearing loss nature gives the old man bigger ears.
Reason with Liberals?
One cannot reason with those who are permanently in a state of self-colonoscopy.
Doubting and Believing
Doubting no more confers dubitability upon that which is doubted than believing bestows credibility upon that which is believed.
Keeping an Eye on the Political
Did the Jews of Europe keep a sharp eye on the political from, say, 1923 to 1933 when Hitler acceded to power? Not very well, as the sequel showed. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The Beaters of the Beaten Path
Their space is narrowly hodological: marked by paths along which merely practical needs are met and merely practical tasks discharged. What lies off these beaten paths is as good as nonexistent to them. As their space, so their lives. The pleasures of meandering the byways are foreign to them.
Reason’s Limits
It is quite unreasonable to suppose that the appeal to sweet reason is the best way forward in all of life's situations. The reasonable appreciate that the hard fist of unreason applied to the visage of evil intransigence is sometimes the most cogent of 'arguments.'
It is unreasonable to be reasonable in all things.
Why Faith?
If we need truth we cannot know, then we need faith.
Langeweile
For the bored, life is not a brevity but a long while.