"confusing with dualities"

[stilltrucking]

The Two Hands Of God

It is thus that when anyone draws attention to the implicit unity of poar opposites we feel something of a shock. For the foundations of thought are shaken by the suspicion that experiences and values which we had believed to be contrary and distinct are after all, aspects of the same thing. At the dawn of sophisticated thought in both China and the West this ever bewildering unity of opposites was pointed out by two almost mythical sages: Heraclitus living in Greece about 500 B.C. and Lao-tzu supposedly a contemporary of Confucius...

[mnaz]

yeah yeah the force, yin yang and all. Sun Tzu applied it to war. Made it an art. Can you believe those Pentagon bastards in the '70s were studying Sun Tzu after Vietnam kicked our ass?

Please pardon my drunken comments this afternoon. Carry on.

[stilltrucking]

Can you believe those Pentagon bastards in the '70s were studying Sun Tzu after Vietnam kicked our ass?

Sure I can believe it. Can you believe that Joseph Goebbels studied Freud?

I wonder what ever happened to the Drunken Haiku Master on litkicks. That guy was so cool. I used to wonder who he was.

"the topography of consciousness"


Thinking about the Two Hands of God again.

The thought struck me that Watts was talking about the topography of consciousness. Thinking inside and outside the box.

We drop these intellectual nets and boxes upon the world as we weave the imaginary lines of latitude and longitude upon the face of the earth and the likewise imaginary firmament of the stars. It is thus the imaginary abstract, and conceptual character of these divisions which renders them polar.

...The importance of a box for thought is that the inside is different from the outside. But in nature the walls of a box are what the inside and outside have in common.

I wondered if the topography of consciousness might have been an original thought of mine
But once again I find that I have
A flair for the obvious.
topography of consciousness yields 263,000 Google hits