Literary Discussions

Heidegger writes "We are a conversation, conversation supports our existence. ... It is precisely in the naming of the gods an in the transmutation of the world into word that the real conversation, which we ourselves ARE, exists." What can this mean, "We are a conversation?" - from The Iron Cow of Zen, pg. 127, by Albert Low, ISBN 0-8048-1669-7 (my reaction)  WE WOULD like for the conversation to end with the publication of a final Grand Unifying Theory, a final revelation, a seal of the prophets after which shall come no other, an end to all questioning for once one has all the answers there is no further need of questions because questions arise from doubts which is motion but truth, we assume, is quietude and rest and the cessation of motion. Perfect knowledge is eternal silence. - "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)