Panta Rhei

08 Mar 2025 - 28 Oct 2025
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    • Πάντα ῥεῖ, everything flows, exactly matching the Buddhist teaching of emptiness I think, which really means "empty of fixed essences". From Heraclitus of course.
    • See also Bergson, I referred to his metaphysics and Buddhism as "weaponized panta rhei". He means to bring down the edifice of Western thought with it. It's one thing to just acknowledge that everything flows, but it's another to take arms against the oppressive rule of the static.
    • It's an ideology that is against ideologies; also perhaps a mind-destroying idea since if nothing is fixed you can't really think about anything.