Never simply a ‘blind shot in the dark’: The mediating middle way
Never simply a ‘blind shot in the dark’: The mediating middle way

Summary/Abstract: Attention returns to soccer. Rule following regarding soccer, and other competitive and ordinary everyday activities, abide by some form of ‘logic’, for sure, but not of the ‘classical’ sort; it is a loose, limber and flexible ‘logic’. It follows that rules of thumb created by this ‘logic’ cannot be unambiguous and precise, given the flowing, fluctuating nature of particularcircumstances, situations and contexts; they are always to a greater or lesser extent vague; they are more tacitly than consciously enacted; they are always becoming something other. In an effort to resolve this age-old conflict between general terms and their particular manifestations, Nāgārjuna saunters once more onto the scene. His Tetralemma entails the middle way, and reveals the enaction of rapid-fire decisions of which only feeling and sensing and tacitly acting and reacting body is capable, for mind – logical, reasoning mind – has no time for such split-second action and reaction.

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