Ahab’s insane error is eternalism: the stance that there is some singular, ultimate Truth underlying all meaningfulness.pic.twitter.com/1auS4Y9FUC
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Ahab’s insane error is eternalism: the stance that there is some singular, ultimate Truth underlying all meaningfulness.pic.twitter.com/1auS4Y9FUC
Dreyfus/Melville’s hero Ishmael’s insight is also that of Vajrayana Buddhism: that the actual world is sacred, and adequately meaningful.pic.twitter.com/4BI8fEZ0p2
Much contemporary guff starts from implicit assumed nihilism, and talks about “finding your own true meaning” by some heroic mystical quest.
But meaning is obvious everywhere—if you do not blind yourself to it with the idiotic Quest For The Ultimate Truth Of Everything.pic.twitter.com/hxOPu36OHG
To find out what is meaningful, you must learn to see. Coffee is a trivial example, but the same pattern applies to the most consequential.pic.twitter.com/Th2nRTOJGj
I described learning to see, reopening the senses, and finding out what you like, in my recent Shadow Eating series:https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/hunting-the-shadow#reopening …
When you pay close attention in order to appreciate the unique specifics of an occasion, routine is transformed into sacred ritual.pic.twitter.com/Gs4ZKEBBxX
Great value in non-rational, communal sacred ritual—and great danger. Dreyfus’ “meta-poesis” plays similar role to my “meta-rationality”…pic.twitter.com/tSRkBCY4Ti
Meta-rationality / meta-poiesis is the learned skill of knowing when, and how, to deploy rationalitypic.twitter.com/hLvdWbEgIc
There no one sort of meaning, but many sorts; the skill of meta-rationality is knowing which is apposite in a particular situation.pic.twitter.com/JnwQBalkMV
Mastery of meta-rationality is the essential task demanded of us by this particular moment in history—as my most recent essay also argued.pic.twitter.com/jsIfzrlcb2
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