Zen and the Art of Zeno

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by ‘Zeno’

If you followed the article on The Evolution of Spirituality it will help understand this article on the Art of Zeno.

Western philosophy can simplified symbolically with any paradox much like Buddhist philosophy can be with koans. Zeno’s paradox is “You will never reach point B from point A as you must always get half-way there, and half of the half, and half of that half, and so on.” Basically, the act of observing the universe creates the paradox. It is a result of the imperfections of sensation; The sensation of change in motion, time. Motion is nothing but an illusion. The tools for measuring are just an extension of the body, an extension of the senses. Tools magnify the artificially created paradox. There is no time. The but the real magic happens in the words themselves.

A koan is simple metaphor (Greek for “transfer of”) packaged with information on how to effectively deal with the Ego or Self by remembering the emptiness. Duality, good and evil, is artificially created by the Ego. The metaphors in language are lost in translation, like a koan. They are also lost in definition, like a paradox. The West has been building the road to god by mouth; effective transfer of information between universes. The East shows us how to traverse the path. While Siddartha was studying God of the Inverse, Zeno was doing the same with the Outverse. Koans are the door, paradox the key. Like ants digging to the center of an apple, one going ‘out’ and one ‘in’. The God of Buddha is the God of the Inverse. The God of Zeno is the Outverse. The metaphor we all speak to each other when using ‘God’ is the Universe. West looks at it from the West, East looks at it from the East. Communication between parts of the universe is no simple matter. Thus the natural selection of definitions by discussion; the philosopher’s stone. Argument is a form of competition in the Mental Evolutionary process. There are so many metaphors competing that we forget the simplicity of the process itself. Everyone already gets it, they just get confused with all the noisy metaphors and sometimes stray from the path.

Zen shows us the key to nothing, Zeno shows us the door to infinity. For example, lets consider all parts together; Natural selection of Physical, Mental, Energy, Spirit, Emotion. Combined, things can get really confusing. You may hear words like “rock”; easy enough, it has protons, electrons, atoms and molecules created by the separation of energy; opposites attract, similarities repel, force, Newton’s laws, gravity, the stuff that binds. The separation, the space between, is defined by the opposite of matter. When the natural selection of Physical, Emotional, and Energetical combine to form a “rock” we symbolize it in the West by categorizing it by the energy emitted; waves, light, color, shape, texture. Like Aristotle would. That’s just a rock, what about a combination of all five? Human? Machine? God? I only have one perspective, there are billions. It is a confusing map to paint, but the message is simple. You can see it in any thing, hear it in any sound, feel it in every motion, believe in it at every turn, transfer it with every word. It is God. We are all slowly tuning the frequency dial of Zen enough to get Zeno’s broadcast out to all.

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