/lit/ - Literature

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Thanks for your thoughtful reply, anon. /lit/, it seems to me, has shifted towards degenerate, thoughtless shit-posts and memes. I am really quite happy that there are still people here that enjoy these types of inquiries.

> we wind up in a kind of weird and perpetual state of constant emergency. but a state of constant emergency, the state of constant error, is the life of the monk as posited by dogen.

This is an incredibly original and interesting insight, one I never thought to make. My ignorance about eastern philosophy and religion puts a limit to how much I can fully grasp though. Could you maybe elaborate on the above quote? Due to my ignorance of the subject, I don't see how the state of constant error is the life of the monk.

So, forgive my ignorance: are you suggesting that the "zen perceiver-subject... [a] kind of ahistorical figure" is a path away from the enframing forced-upon us by modern technology or simply the destination of the path we're on?