Wears and Tears
(Tableau of an ageless world)
We took our measure in yards, feet and inches, cubits, acres, pounds and ounces. Embodied gauges now lost in decimal and binary numerology, non human constants without a mortal history. The angle of perceived pain now fixed and yet upset within its jelly of acceleration, its taste of raspberry, with a touch of lemon, the zest for all tomorrow’s parties. This is a mocking of the life (27), but when we touch, we know what’s right and true. Embodied skills are delicate and flower only briefly, but when they do, they teach us all to live and not to think.
Only painters know of paint, its slithering creep, its tints, its stains, the viscosity of oils and the brush’s touch. Painters do not speak; they see and fear the dark. They abhor the black; it’s not a colour in their eyes, it is an absence, a vacuum for colliding particles.
There are other vacuums, hidden in dark spaces far beneath the earth, where huge artificial lakes of inert water, distil their essence into electronic dreams of quark; the freezing of collisions within the holographic moment of becoming both positive and negative (28), coexisting outside concepts of ethics or morality.
Who will give this disquisition? Who will white the blackboard’s possibilities? Only a Deva (29) of the working class, only the one who has achieved the state of imperturbable thoughtlessness, is of sufficient elevation to deliver this lecture.
The sirens’ song is best listened to when you are tied to the mast, if not you could be impaled on your own beliefs, like a hedgehog that turns itself inside out to escape its own fleas.
A dog scratches itself with its left hind leg. It is oblivious to anything else.
27 Shakespeare: Timon of Athens Act 1 Scene 1
Painter
It is a pretty mocking of the life. Here is a touch; is't good?
Poet
I will say of it, It tutors nature: artificial strife. Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
28 Properties of antiparticles
Quantum states of a particle and an antiparticle can be interchanged by applying the charge conjugation (C), parity (P), and time reversal (T) operators. If | p, σ, n› denotes the quantum state of a particle (n) with momentum p, spin j whose component in the z-direction is σ, then one has
CPT | p, σ, n› = (- 1) j- σ | p, - σ, nc ›,
where nc denotes the charge conjugate state, i.e., the antiparticle. This behavior under CPT is the same as the statement that the particle and its antiparticle lie in the same irreducible representation of the Poincare group.
29 In Buddhist teachings rebirth takes place within one of six realms, these realms are further subdivided into 31 planes of existence:
1. Naraka beings: those who live in one of many Narakas (Hells)
2. Preta: sometimes sharing some space with humans, but invisible to most people; an important variety is the hungry ghost
3. Animals: sharing space with humans, but considered another type of life
4. Human beings: one of the realms of rebirth in which attaining Nirvana is possible
5. Asuras: variously translated as lowly deities, demons, titans, antigods; not recognized by Theravāda (Mahavihara) tradition as a separate realm
6. Devas including Brahmas: variously translated as gods, deities, spirits, angels
7. Rebirths in some of the higher heavens, known as the Śuddhāvāsa Worlds (Pure Abodes), can be attained only by skilled Buddhist practitioners known as anāgāmis (non-returners). Rebirths in the arupa-dhatu (formless realms) can be attained only by those who can meditate on the arūpajhānas, the highest object of meditation.
According to East Asian and Tibetan Buddhism, there is an intermediate state (Tibetan "Bardo") between one life and the next.
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