In the middle of my life, I found myself adrift in elderly trails of an ancient forest. The forest was older than the fur and feathers that tossed and curled amongst its barks and tendrils. It was older even than the soil that was its current home. Once, long ago, it had been under the sea, composed of microbial blooms and an innovative evolutionary whirlwind. Forest
Alone in the forest, lost, prospects unknown. It is rational yet unnatural to compose a map. For who would find it? And if so, how could they read it? And if so, how could it help them? And if so, why do they need a map if they have travelled so far? And if they do need a map, what map could I compose?
Ф
If both of us
(i.e. the putative author and any communicable reader)
were to land naked today on the earth,
and I was asked for my intuitions regarding
the meaning of life, the universe, and everything in it
(nb. “intuitions”, and thus any non-destructing wisdom qualifies first-round),
then I would answer that I think…
“that life is navigated by an array of controls
[like a keyboard, only except for letter-buttons, it is the different wills and beings and have-beens which comprise momentary life]
(e.g. mindfulness, nutrition, thoughts, feelings, social endeavour), and that
these controls are wielded
[because we want to have some things and not others]
to serve
momentary and
trans-life [e.g. narrative of life, e.g. things that give narrative value]
values
[nb. Lots of controls, life is hard and you never master reality until you’ve learned to let go anyway, so it’s an actual reason to be humble, ie. self-interest is the reason here to be humble – too often humility is sold emphasizing the “humility to-”, whereas humility should be a solitary state before it is a social state]
The accumulation of these
values
is arbitrary and sufficient
per biological imperative, and
per metaphysical necessity,
since values ascend by rungs
(i.e. of a ladder’s iteration),
(nb. Which heuristically move upwards).
♬ love is key, and wisdom is admirable ♬
← These two goals
can serve as
arbitrary
posts
to serve as an illustration.
For example, it would follow (re. Love and wisdom),
that
it is a good
life choice
to settle for a wage in order to ascend the rung to sustain love’s peripheries.
It would not have to be mudane #sell-out
since would not confuse
(i.e. confuse wage for purpose unto itself)
(e.g. if
temporally bound and
tricked by the laws of causality + event-horizons
[forget that yesterday is a dream to today]
)
(cf.
The man who
forgets that wage is a dream
is like the sage who
forgets that god is a dream
[e.g. relative to the present when not presently thought, nb. Strong sophism necessitating divine intervention is a theologian’s common (surruptitious) appeal to occam’s razor]
).
IMO, a good constellation with which to begin life is to become a great lover, so that one feels a kinship with the trees and with those who inspire exlusion (e.g. “enemy”, “beloved”).
(cf.
Emphasizing illness of greed
for
material greed, or
spiritual greed
[cf. Tanha of the sensuous disposition vs theoretical disposition]
).
“But what does it mean?”
╚ Is the opening riposte to a story-teller’s monopolizing of the spotlight.
(i.e. asking for meaning is asking for a story-type truth
because meaning is
beyond
telling or
fully knowing,
it is
best thought of as something lived
[meaning is lived not found]).
It means that
it is beyond words, and
can only be communicated through
models and
stories.
Where these
models or
stories
can be understood in parallel
without contradiction,
then those
can be heard
as a
single opera of meaning
(as opposed to a
loose change pocket of discord
).
