Hello Diana,
Here's my topic suggestion for September:
"Fortunately our existence and language don't quite tie us
down to such an extent [q.v. Orwell's '1984' and Newspeak]
and the open-endedness can be sufficient to prise open the
conceptual barriers. In the context of Zen, koans are this
method, I guess. In the much more freewheeling western
culture you need books like ZAMM and Lila and www.moq.org
to prise the lid off the metaphysical cookie jar, 'cos
we're not too hot on pithy aphorisms anymore."
(Hamish Muirhead, letter to MOQ Focus, Sat Jul 29, 2000)
How specifically might 'the open-endedness of language
prise open its own conceptual barriers for the benefit of
our free-wheeling western culture'?
Mark
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