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Sunday, June 26, 2011 2500 years ago Zhuangzi* said: Life always exists in the whole, never in isolation.
So I asked myself 2500 years later: Why cut up the whole of 'what is' with mind's scissors of dichotomy**?
And then I answered myself: Mind is scissors. The whole is a myth. Life is seen through the mind. Mind never sees a whole, just isolation (of "what is" into "this" or "that").
[Mind is scissors: mind cuts up the whole of "what is" into "this" and "that;" it has to, that's what it does. Mind sorts and fragments reality. Mind divides reality and then (!) looks for oneness. Mind first fractalizes oneness into fragments and then tries to glue all these pieces back together into some theory-of-everything fad. In short, mind chases its own tail. This is neither good nor bad. It just is.]
*Zhuangzi - Daoist sage (4th century BCE)
**Dichotomy - from Greek dichotomia "a cutting in half," from dicha "in two, asunder" (related to dis "twice") + temnein "to cut" (etymonline.com)