Romaric/Xhoni, I love consecutive order in your writings, like another book in chapters, as you say on "Khora-Reflections" - to be continued. Tetralemma (away from Nagarjuna) is relevant for "Khora".
I prefer to follow Dwina Murphy-Gibb. The spiritual ease on relevance of "keys and words" and philosophers' Love of those. Give way and abandon yourself, as you integrate the five senses in ex - and impression.
Still my etymological interest is triggered by such reflections...
For now I sit in quiet, peace and harmony meditating in quintuply of senses.
HI Romaric, enjoyed reading this piece! It's what I wrote my diss on (chora in Plato's Timeaus) and it makes me happy to see interest in Khora. I did piece on the strange logic (https://philosophypublics.substack.com/p/all-that-space-is-not), and a whole series on space here based on my diss. Chora is the most baffling thing in Plato's entire works! Did you ever run into John Sallis' little book on khora, Chorology?
There is a level of meditation that seems halfway between the corporeal and subtle regions when a question is simultaneous with its answer and the merging of this creates a state of words not being needed at all… where consciousness splits and appears to merge in a level or place that cannot be named or known except through this fleeting experience. It is dreamlike and appealing, even refreshing, but the experience does not need placement. Could this be Khora? If my son explains quantum physics I feel the same pull of understanding. However, I could not repeat it to another in the same way. Xx Thank you for your studies of Jacques Derrida’s works.
Is it more or less like such a state of (meditative) experience? This is difficult to answer. Plato was quite kriptic about it. Derrida was more concerned with the philosophical dimension than the true experiential one, and yet there are elements in his investigation that suggest he saw something beyond a classical philosophical investigation that cannot be reduced to mysticism.
Nishida Kitarō also referred to the concept of khōra when he elaborated his "logic of place." It is probably in his writings that we can find something that resonates most deeply with what you are describing (Nishida was a Zen practitioner himself). This is something I will explore, but at another occasion; I need more time so as not to repeat some of the misconceptions we encounter when reading commentaries on his philosophy.
Romaric/Xhoni, I love consecutive order in your writings, like another book in chapters, as you say on "Khora-Reflections" - to be continued. Tetralemma (away from Nagarjuna) is relevant for "Khora".
I prefer to follow Dwina Murphy-Gibb. The spiritual ease on relevance of "keys and words" and philosophers' Love of those. Give way and abandon yourself, as you integrate the five senses in ex - and impression.
Still my etymological interest is triggered by such reflections...
For now I sit in quiet, peace and harmony meditating in quintuply of senses.
Namasté, Joe-Kwame
HI Romaric, enjoyed reading this piece! It's what I wrote my diss on (chora in Plato's Timeaus) and it makes me happy to see interest in Khora. I did piece on the strange logic (https://philosophypublics.substack.com/p/all-that-space-is-not), and a whole series on space here based on my diss. Chora is the most baffling thing in Plato's entire works! Did you ever run into John Sallis' little book on khora, Chorology?
I have never heard of this book. Thank you very much. I will try to find it.
I think you'll like it!
There is a level of meditation that seems halfway between the corporeal and subtle regions when a question is simultaneous with its answer and the merging of this creates a state of words not being needed at all… where consciousness splits and appears to merge in a level or place that cannot be named or known except through this fleeting experience. It is dreamlike and appealing, even refreshing, but the experience does not need placement. Could this be Khora? If my son explains quantum physics I feel the same pull of understanding. However, I could not repeat it to another in the same way. Xx Thank you for your studies of Jacques Derrida’s works.
Is it more or less like such a state of (meditative) experience? This is difficult to answer. Plato was quite kriptic about it. Derrida was more concerned with the philosophical dimension than the true experiential one, and yet there are elements in his investigation that suggest he saw something beyond a classical philosophical investigation that cannot be reduced to mysticism.
Nishida Kitarō also referred to the concept of khōra when he elaborated his "logic of place." It is probably in his writings that we can find something that resonates most deeply with what you are describing (Nishida was a Zen practitioner himself). This is something I will explore, but at another occasion; I need more time so as not to repeat some of the misconceptions we encounter when reading commentaries on his philosophy.