So, chaos goddesses. And hermeneutics. I’m resisting writing a blog post about myth, rationality, and meta-rationality; chaos and order ≈ nebulosity and pattern ≈ emptiness and form; gender and archetypes. Because I have no time to write, and that stuff is … esoteric.
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Tröma Nakmo is not evil—she is every bit as benevolent as Prajñaparamita. The middle-eastern religions are dualistic: all about the Cosmic War of Good And Evil. That is not how the world works. Other mythologies do not reflect this error.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/999034485273325568 …
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If interpretation of myth is mere free association, it becomes meaningless. Meaningful use orients to a system of understanding. The function of a chaos goddess in a dualist-eternalist religion is quite different than in a non-dual system, e.g.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/989602858394796032 …
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The opposite error to free association is force-fitting everything to a fixed system of interpretation, which drains myth of meaning.
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Exactly the same two errors are possible in any attempt to understand anything, including in science, engineering, management, etc. Being sensitive to *how* a rational system relates to reality is the essence of meta-rationality. Does the system cherish the phenomena?
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“Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness.” —Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra (“The Scripture of the Essence of Perfected Wisdom”)
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