gnox – Page 15 – Turning Signs

This is it

As the time is not other than appearing, appearing is the arrival of time. What is it that appears? Appearing appears.

— Dogen, ‘Ocean Mudra Samadhi’ (Tanahashi 2010, 381)

Here it comes

So it goes.

— Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Connext

Everything is connected, but some things are more connected than others.

— Herbert Simon (Pattee 1973, 23)

Enough

If the great ocean thought it was full enough, the hundred rivers would flow backward.

— Dogen, Eihei Koroku 3.242 (Leighton and Okumura 2004, 240)

Wholly

The Way of heaven is impartial.

Daodejing 79

Was there death before life?

Eternal life is the kind of life that includes death.

— Thich Nhat Hanh (1995, 143)

Thinking it through

… there is no royal road to thought. If one person, A, has an idea, and it is deemed desirable that another person, B, should have it too, there is absolutely no other way than for B to go through substantially the same process of thought that A has gone through …

— Peirce, MS 298 (φαν 34)

Questings

Science is a communal quest for truth, religion a quest for true community.

Mourning the passing of morning

Comeday morm and O, you’re vine! Sendday’s eve and ah, you’re vinegar!

Finnegans Wake, 5

riverrun

Only in the stream of thought and life do words have meaning.

— Wittgenstein (1968, #173)