Complicated thing is simply a large enough chain of simple things. Simple explanation is not simplification, or reduction. Simple explanation is one that leads one smoothly through each part of the chain. People who can’t explain simply don’t truly understand the subject. Their chain of understanding is incomplete. One can always collect …
Category: Philosophy
Followers Consumers Leaders Producers
The elevation from weak follower is not to the courageous leader. The elevation from mindless consumer is not to the industrious producer. Leader needs followers. Producer needs consumers. Leader is but another side of the follower coin. Producer is but another side of the consumer coin. I say – dispense the coins altogether. …
Self-Focused Learns Nothing Sees Nothing
Can you be looking at two things without dividing your attention? When you’re looking at an apple, can you simultaneously look at a pear, with the same attention? Or does your attention divide? What happens when you’re looking at yourself? You’re not looking at something else, are you? What happens when you …
Integrity Is Not A Response To Dishonesty
https://twitter.com/gxdarz/status/1048980519562747905 Inspired by this excellent twitter thread by @gxdarz I come up with some further words on INTEGRITY: Your “integrity” is a response to dishonesty. E.g. you called a red apple blue. Now you want to be honest and call it red. But then it turns yellow, and you still keep calling it red. This …
SPONTANEITY IS CONSCIOUSNESS
Anything done for a “reason” is already corrupted and it’s bound to produce mediocrity. There is only THE DOING. The choiceless, inevitable, endless ACT OF DOING – the very eternal wheel of the universe. The best reason to do something is a WHIM. Anything more is utter delusion. You are deluding yourself …
Your Toolkit Expands With Your Creativity
Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity. The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using. A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless. By idea – I mean a creative idea. You can have all the instruments in the world …
The Importance Of Luck
One who underestimates the importance of luck will also overestimate the importance of certainty. One who overvalues the importance of certainty is the one who doesn’t take enough risks. One who doesn’t take enough risks is the one missing on the best opportunities
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …
Gratitude Cures Ambition
Gratitude cures ambition. Why would you cure ambition? Would you not want to achieve something? You precisely don’t want. You want nothing. You neither want nor don’t want success. There is no attachment. No desire. This is the beginning of freedom. I view ambition as this hunger. Why be hungry? Why …
Virtue of Integrity
Obsessing over some virtue of integrity is how you forfeit integrity. By trying to be something – you are already disloyal to what you actually are. (and you still fail to change, because *trying* doesn’t bring about changes; consciousness does) Integrity is seeing what you actually are. One must simply watch himself without uttering the …