“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, August 19, 2012

Oryoki

You know what this footnoting is like? It's like the final phase of a Japanese oryoki meal, a staple of Zen monasteries.

You have a setsu, a cleaning stick, round which you've wrapped a piece of cloth at one end.

You clean out your bowls with it, so no washing up is required. You get little tastes of everything you've eaten. It can be a little gross.

Yeah it's like that: cleaning your bowl thoroughly. Reading through endless philosophy texts getting little tastes of them. It can be a little gross.



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