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modem: telluric vinegar
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Report: A riff on that old Chinese allegory about the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Confucius describing the taste of vinegar: Confucius sour, the Buddha bitter, Lao tzu calls it sweet. We say: each dips his finger into his own vat: each reveals the taste of his tellurium, the flavor of his own Boltzmann brain: we're not talking about solipsism, or the Kantian in (phenomenal) solitary confinement: you're not a Real without a World, or just scratching at an = x: you are not a closet in God's castle: the World is a tattoo: and you are a circle drawn with a dotted line: because even the Real escaping you is a mode of relation to it: the double transcendence which Hegel was kind enough to explain: and then trap you in: by decompressing the “I know that I do not know.” : don't think an identity of identity and non-identity (dialectic superglue) but instead the non-identity of identity and non-identity (compossible sausages: Laruelle Tiantai): there is no duality of subject and matter, locked in the same medium: there is the DUAL of Life and the World: each is its own medium: the Buddha saturates the world with buddhahood, the Daoist with the Dao: each is an instrument played by a wind that does not stir: