Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010
You perhaps will not bask unthinking in the sun, privy to an idyllic landscape of gazelles and grass -- or seal yourself in the ice of the north; perhaps the earth is too old, too wearied. The overwrought early-twenty-first-century sentimentality (we'll say, for instance): maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's fantasy, maybe it's willful delusion like a breath of fresh air. A slow-motion YouTube video of an undefined African scene set to Yanni and a Sufi poem. Sincere thoughts, perhaps. It is curious, this shibbolethic birth.
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In the frozen early morning, the sky was only penetrating deep-blue as if she were demonstrating there is no heaven. The deep-blueness was erasing any form, but forcing to be unique so as to realize illusory independence just like meditators are sticking to a form to abandon various other conventional forms. The Earth would unfold her nature as if she were indifferent to humans because she is too intelligent to be understood by humans. In fact, those lands are, in this connection, overwhelming in a sense that they are perfect than any other human forms which are imaginable.
Thank you for this, Yasuhiro -- it reminds me of something I read by Heidegger not ten minutes ago, so I want to try to respond with it:
Alle Dinge der Erde, sie selbst im Ganzen, verströmen sich in einen wechselweisen Einklang. Aber dieses Verströmen ist kein Verwischen. Hier strömt der in sich beruhte Strom des Ausgrenzens, das jedes Anwesende in sein Anwesen begrenzt. So ist in jedem der sich verschließenden Dinge das gleiche Sich-nicht-Kennen. Die Erde ist das wesenhaft Sich-Verschließende. Die Erde her-stellen heißt: sie ins Offene bringen als das sich Verschließende.
In particular I'm seeing the image of the radiating of things into everything, not in a manner that confuses them with other things, but in a way that a thing's distinction, on whatever level that may exist, is intimately tied to the distinction of other things, creating an alternating harmony (which is the response to that distinction; in this we see the realisation of interdependence, rather than illusory independence). The Earth (a special word for Heidegger, the importance and meaning of which I have not fully understood), in its presentation to us, brings into the open that act of separation from other things.
Thank you for your thoughts; as usual, they seem to utter something very subtly related to my own thoughts.
That is indeed what you are saying, so such similarity should be not something surprising. Since the world is interconnected as you mentioned, images (mental pictures) what you've got are likely also shared by many people on this planet. Rather you simply attuned yourself to such harmony. Additionally, illusory independence can be a different way of depicting distinct interconnected individuals. Anyway, it's fun to decode your picture in my favourite way; it's exciting, and this feeling must be a proof of the interconnectedness!
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