Thursday, January 6, 2011

Meaning as Water

There is a point in any discussion about meaning - a point where we and the world need to be of the same stuff for meaning to work. I mean for all the transcendental pretensions of meaning (real or imagined) in the end it works because we are of the world - we understand it and understand it in a way we share in some sense with it: we are a part of it- and live through it. The world and us are not then apart: We share in its energy flows or its water flows, we are part of its story. Our ability then to build for ourselves our own little world and the worlds meta power to disrupt all such worlds and to reform them otherwise, are caught together because at a base level we share some stuff some light some energy. We see a world, and it in that seeing is already sharing something with us and through us.
We matter, and so does the world: Meaning is the to be caught both in a single flow of something towards some other state: We are points ruption or eruption, or interruption or merely continuance on that flows- point to be comprehended by it:
And at the same time the flow is also elsewhere a part in a cycle or a series of cycles or systems that might well be orchestrating its movements and defining what it is.
What is more this cycle this flow might b caught up in greater flows or cycles and be so to continua.
To be a part f the world, to share in t, is to be caught in some sense in the arch-paradigms for time as flow and cycle. it is then in the flow and through the cycle we feel ourselves in the very act of perceiving to also we a part n nature: we see and the world is - and somehow we are already sharing what we are - and how we are.
The truth of being water is then surely this- that in our most intimate moment of being, the moment a perception tumbles into the conscious mind, we are already sharing what we are, already a part of some other movement, another story, one where our cycles and loops of mind is merely else where moment in a flow ; or alternative our flowing time is gathered in a great hoop of existing.
The be water is therefore to already be sharing hat you are in some sense even as you are it - and for that the be the very crux of meaning - for by what else do we mean in the word?

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