Lifestyle

Why New Toys Are Exciting (And Your Life Is Not)

Toys are new = novelty. First they are new by the very fact that you don’t have them Second they are new because toys are continuously updated, to keep you enthralled   Toys benefit from memetic value Which itself benefits from scarcity We want that which others want. The more we don’t know what we …

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Lifestyle Spirituality

Asceticism Doesn’t Get To The Cause

There’s the problem of DESIRE — which is a problem of a false god, of delusion There’s the problem of OVERINDULGENCE — which is a problem of being distracted, ineffective — and all that in vain — as the pleasure is empty.   By CEASING DESIRE-pursuits and PLEASURE-PURSUITS and becoming an ASCETIC — you do …

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Lifestyle Philosophy Spirituality

No Desire?

Desire is craving is compulsion is lack is dissatisfaction is suffering WILL is choice is consciousness is insight And joy is joy, and pleasure is pleasure   DESIRE You are suffering therefore you desire You desire therefore you’re suffering It’s a circle Desiring brings you suffering, dissatisfaction And it distracts you from addressing true causes …

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