There’s the OUTCOME you want to attain. And there’s HOW you attain that outcome. The OUTCOME is concrete . But the “HOW” is more vague The “HOW” is sometimes clear and sometimes utterly obscure, and usually partly clear and partly obscure. To get the OUTCOME you are looking for the “HOW”. You follow, IMITATE …
Category: Spirituality
Self-Sceptical
You want to be self-sceptical “You should be sceptical about your own beliefs” This is absolutely basic and has been talked of over and over again You should be sceptical not just of your beliefs. That is easy. You should be sceptical of every THOUGHT which emerges in you And you should be …
No Regrets: Part II: Enlightened “No Regrets”
Test is continued from Part I: No Regrets: 3 Levels of “No Regrets” …and I’m not saying it’s easy This is why it’s enlightened. For as long as you’re in the paradigm of LOSS AND GAIN, of investment and return — you can never FREE yourself from regrets Because obviously the full insight to …
No Regrets: Part I: 3 Levels of “No Regrets”
There are 3 levels of “no regrets”: The negative level: self-delusion. The positive level: freeing yourself from regrets and starting over The enlightened level: living every moment like it’s your last, living every moment as though your dead future self told you how to live. The negative “no regrets” is a sure way to …
Freedom From Information; Minimalism
consider what it would be like to NOT have to BE INFORMED at all, how much more pure and blissful all would be you’d trade a little excitation and fleeting engagement and sense of control — for stillness of existence Information is obviously entropic It’s a weight which must be metabolised, It’s hard to …
BOTH Optimistic And Pessimistic
I spoke against optimism in place of realism. I spoke against scepticism in place of possibility, which is just pessimism and defeatism. I spoke for philosophically fundamentally positive attitude to existence I also spoke for seeing more “negative” as your perception improves I want to once again stress it, if it’s not yet clear: …
Explaining vs Knowing
There’s explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge Explicit knowledge is knowledge which can be readily passed, written down, coded, recorder, verbalised, conveyed… Implicit knowledge is knowledge which is difficult to convey, difficult to teach, and often difficult even to be aware of (e.g. try writing instructions on how to WALK properly, as a human being, or …
REAL TIREDNESS vs RESISTANCE
There’s energy and there’s resistance. There’s your physical energy. You can have more of it or less of it. We can argue all day about you being able to access more energy and do more, But there’s no denying the existence of physical energy One day you’ll have less of it, and eventually you’ll …
REALNESS
Realness is truth is elevating Untruth, unreal — is how you get stuck The map you use matches the reality — or not You can get away with imprecise map up to a certain point. You will get somewhere. But eventually you get stuck Your map is a lie — therefore it doesn’t take …
Dislike is Hate is Destructive
Dislike is hate (and hostility is violence) There’s no such thing as ”positive dislike” Dislike is always negative is destructive Criticism is negative is destructive Constructive is love Constructive is creation of more of that which you love, more of that which is love-ly Creation of love-ly things is not an act …