Astasy
A not-yet-an-enstasy
Astasy
happens when a self (i.e. an identity) is (experienced as) incomplete,
unfulfilled, un-whole; ‘in bits’, ‘mess’; excited, restless, unstable; in
turmoil, hot, and so on. An incomplete or unstable self, an astasy, is ‘not
itself’ (i.e. not a complete self) because it happens prior to (hence ‘off’
or beyond’) a self (i.e. prior to an enstasy). Astasy
(to wit, an incomplete, hence unidentifiable pre-unit process) happens when a
complete self (i.e. an enstasy or an ecstasy
proper, i.e. an order of 1, hence a unit) becomes (decays to become)
incomplete (i.e. a disorder). An incomplete, because not unitised or quantised (i.e.
whole, hence enstatic) self (a particular, hence
relative enstasy) cannot become (and experience
itself as) a real identity (i.e. as a real (hence true) self, i.e. as an
ecstasy proper). Note: A self (i.e. a quantum
of difference) is relative. The relative (by not being absolute) is
incomplete. Hence all selves are incomplete. The absolute, because it has no
self (i.e. no difference), is also incomplete, and on three counts. The (negative) payoff (hence
self-punishment) for becoming (actually emerging or decaying as) an astasy, i.e. as a not-yet-a-self (i.e. as a not whole
unit of identity) (Buddhist: anatta) is
sorrow, misery, pain, depression, anxiety and so on (i.e. called dukkha
in Buddhism). Obviously, since all selves (i.e. units of difference) are
relative, therefore incomplete, they are all (eventually experienced as)
sorrowful (as the Buddha claimed). However, the relative (i.e. the
fundamentally incomplete, hence astatic) can be made absolute (i.e. complete,
whole, fulfilled (Buddhist: atta, Hindu: atman)
and so on) and therefore joyful (a very common experience which the Buddha
chose to deny) if and when it is collided touched, and which happens in a
relativity vacuum. |