Is a paradox simply a truth trying to show off by standing on its head?
By ESKARENA1
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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@Opalrose (46)
• Australia
25 May 07
I work in a psychiatric hospital, and one of the patients picked up a chair and threw it through the window. The chair became embedded in the actual structure of the window, just hanging there. It did not break the window at all. It just hung in the glass embedded in one side. That is a paradox surely.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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25 May 07
on many, many levels i think that is a deeply profound event and certainly paradoxical
blessed be
@Opalrose (46)
• Australia
26 May 07
There are many paradoxes in the world. It is meant to challenge our thinking and look at life in another way. Anything is possible. It does not mean that the explanation is easy to come up with. Reality is different for every individual. That is the basis of humanity.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
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26 May 07
i certainly agree with the idea of a variable, individualised reality. Afterall we do construct, and indeed rec onstruct, our reality regularly
blessed be
@derek_a (10874)
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21 May 07
I feel that it's proof of the existence of infinity, symbolised by the circle.
If we keep heading east, we'll end up in the west. Everything, is also nothing because how can we talk about everything without standing "outside it" in which case it wouldn't be everything, but some-thing (we are looking at). To get something to disappear, it would need to become everything, then it would be truly nothing. In Zen, they call this state "mu" - no-thing, the great void, the Buddha nature, God. The context of contexts, which can be experienced whilst still in the physical.
Paradox is at the very essence of Zen and a subject I love. But wait a minute, how can it be a subject, because the moment you talk about it, it is paradoxical?:-) And, everything is paradoxical if you look close enough. Everything devolves to nothing and is also in a state of evolution (devolving/evolving), to become at one with all things and disappear. The "destination" of all our paths. :-)
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