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But such an inquiry itself-ontology taken in the widest sense without favoring any particular ontological directions or tendencies-requires a further clue. Ontological inquiry is indeed more primordial, as over against the ontical inquiry of the positive sciences. [Heidegger]
The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror, is mindless.
In the west, we just have less Mind — rather than no mind at all; half a mind, without any of the benefits of fullness or emptiness.
And so we suffer, have malnourished souls.
So many times, I begin sentences in my head, “I wonder…” But I don’t know what I’m wondering about — I am full of questions without content, seeking without knowledge without knowing what is being sought.
I am like all modern people in this, in that I’m midway between knowing and nothing, unsure of whether I’m in the past, present, or future — floating, suspended in the stream of being.
