Molyneux’s problem<\/a>.<\/p>\nThere are storms whose ferocity are brokered by attention. There are landscapes that are consumed when seen, absorbed by their traveler. The watcher may watch the watcher, and know that sight is the paradox of a blind event horizon.<\/p>\n
Levinas says that one must always demetaphorize the very metaphors by which one has just demetaphorized the metaphors. He is left with a singularity. I am left with a moment that was passed and never grasped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I meditate to transform my experiences. What does it mean to know transformation? I have become more familiar with the subtleties of the breath\u2019s sensation \u2013 this is the most communicable transformation. It is easy to imagine an increase in awareness in nuances of sensation: the spectrum of a painting, the textures of a carpet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,108,106],"tags":[320,107],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-observations","category-the-traveller-is-the-journey","tag-levinas","tag-meditation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2015\/10\/16\/meditation-anecdotes\/","url_meta":{"origin":769,"position":0},"title":"Meditation anecdotes","author":"Pala","date":"October 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I intend to attend to the sensation of breath at the nostrils' rims. 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I have become more familiar with the subtleties of the breath\u2019s sensation \u2013 this is the most communicable transformation. It is easy to imagine an increase in awareness in nuances of sensation: the spectrum of a painting, the textures of a carpet, the timbre of a violin. The words point to the distinction: \u201cgreen\u201d and \u201cyellow\u201d indicate a continuum between them, and any mind that has known the changes in the autumn\u2019s leaves may know this before a heartbeat.<\/p>\n