The wheel still in spin

This is a bit over my head, and will take me a while to digest.

 

I'm monist, in a sense - it's the cosmic background radiation of my practice, but while I'm here in this flesh bundle, there's really no reason to think much about it.

 

I'd go along with that. My general impression is that "non-dualism" can tend to make a fetish of dualism, rather than leaving it behind. The narrative identity stuff I quoted yesterday is not dualist, but I'm not sure that it's non-dualist either. Existential/hermeneutic approaches are post-Cartesian rather than anti-Cartesian, I think it's fair to say.

I like what Christopher Nolan said about the ending of Inception, where the lead character leaves the spinning top (which discerns dream from reality) while it's still in spin, to go engage with his life, play with his kids.

I put that cut there at the end, imposing an ambiguity from outside the film. That always felt the right ending to me — it always felt like the appropriate ‘kick’ to me….The real point of the scene — and this is what I tell people — is that Cobb isn’t looking at the top. He’s looking at his kids. He’s left it behind. That’s the emotional significance of the thing.