I have used the Japanese word “horonigai” to mean a blend. Blend means interrelated or inter-are in a manner that gets at the subtleness of dharma awareness.
One of my mullings-over has been how to describe terms that have to be experienced rather than logically understood. For example I use “Mu” as potential. Mu then is yet to have form but has the capacity and capability to do so as “conditions and variables align.” This is similar to necessary but not sufficient. A conundrum built by logic that is outside duality. This or that, if given as a choice, does not exist in potential until one or the other option is chosen.
However it seems the suggested form must be logically derived for it to be logically correct– think about the stages of a fetus on the way to becoming human, or Schrodinger’s Cat.
I also want to introduce some research done by Chang he’- san, who explored the term and sent along her findings to me.
I will be looking at different aspects of the usefulness of this term as it offers a non-static sense of existence: experiential. When looking at old oscilloscopes in Hopper’s TV, in Forsyth, Georgia in the early 1960s (It was a cathode tube (screen) filled with blackish and greyish wiggling small rectangles) it was a visualization of the sound called “static.” Patterns emerged from adjusting this scope of view.
An application of the horonigai-construct is similar in that everything isn’t in sensory palpable form until we recognize it through such. It does not mean it doesn’t exist but rather that we are not pecieving it. We may have an impression or feeling, we call experience which may be to different degrees a wiggly-hot-flash-hair-standing-on-the-back-of my-neck-experience or little cat feet. A kind of wowness but usually of the low voltage type!. Staying in it is (the) now.. Talking about it later is thinking it through.
Let’s begin with the idea “… that is somewhat that but a little like this as well,” as we talk this Tuesday night January 27, 2025.
Sangaku