06 Sep 24
12 Jun 24
Fraggle Rock loves the stream metaphor.
I feel like the stream image doesn’t really contradict the slices-of-an-amber-rock model of time. We never see the same river because our view of time changes like a slice of clay in a [strata-cut animation][sa].
Sometimes it feels like Dōgen had the entire block universe idea seven hundred years early and other times it feels like he’s saying the complete opposite, coming across as if time were a running river.
Here’s someone’s 1995 attempt at sorting all of this out in the context of McTaggart’s “B-series” description of the block universe.
07 Sep 23
“How, in heaven’s name, was this possible that human beings could lose to such a degree their true humanity, that they could lose themeselves?”