Saunders on TRP

[Mike Weaver]

I guess it's what we take away from our reading, I find the sense 
expressed the temporal bandwidth idea far more appealing than Buddhist 
interpretations.

Rocks aren't enlightened, but they are /totally/ there.

cheers
Mike


On 26/03/2014 19:04, David Morris wrote:
> Rocks are known to have an extremely wide temporal bandwith.  Are 
> rocks enlightened?
> Also, consider what it means to become a crossroads, especially in GR 
> context, where mandalas abound.  The crossroads is the center of the 
> universe, ie. God.
> http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/things/mandalas.htm
> Simply stated, a mandala is a sacred geometric figure that represents 
> the universe. When completed, a mandala becomes a sacred area that 
> serves as a receptable for deities and a collection point of universal 
> forces. By mentally entering a mandala and proceeding to its center, a 
> person is symbolically guided through the cosmos to the essence of 
> reality.
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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:49 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Would you care to expand on what you see as Pynchon's notion of
>     temporal bandwidth?
>     The following isn't Pynchon speaking, is it?
>     "Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not
>     too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one
>     day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal
>     bandwidth." "Temporal bandwidth," is the width of your present,
>     your now. It is the familiar "[delta-] t" considered as a
>     dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the
>     future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona.
>     But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.
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>     --Gravity's Rainbow p. 506
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>     If someone's bandwidth is zero, maybe that means transcendence of
>     the notion of time.
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>     On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Mike Weaver
>     <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk <mailto:mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>> wrote:
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>         Gotta disagree with this very strongly. I think P challenges
>         the validity of the 'be here now' mentality with his notion of
>         temporal bandwidth. Slothrop's dissolution (Tempbdwth = 0)is
>         the opposite of enlightenment.
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>         David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>>
>         wrote :
>         The excluded middle and the middle way are so obviously
>         aligned. Paradox is Pynchon and Zen. Slothrop found the Tao
>         and his dissolving away is a common feat of enlightened
>         masters.  Pynchon made Slothrop into a Buddha. Deal with it.
>         > David MorrisOn Tuesday, March 25, 2014, Markekohut
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