People mistake “good enough” for NOT good enough and people mistake NOT good enough for good enough A thing has attributes If you need something for its particular attribute — all things that have that attribute are good enough Optionality however, the extra potential utility — doesn’t make it better now — but …
Tag: Desire
Everything Aligning is NOT Happiness
Things going well is your misguided concept of happiness It satisfies the rapacious, quantifiable, scorecard idea of success It also aligns with those rare memories when all things went so well — and for a moment you felt so happy Except it’s misleading Happiness is the natural state It can be ruined, yes …
Conflicting Desires Have You End Up Empty Handed
We have conflicting desires We’re not aware of that conflict As a result, we reconcile them sloppily examples: We may convince ourselves we don’t really want something. We may reject something because it’s “not good enough”. We may even resent something, if we can’t have it. Of course if such is our reconciliation …
If You Want It Gone, You Must FORGET It Utterly
When you want something gone, You can’t simply think: “I WANT IT GONE” Obviously If you want it gone entirely — it must also be gone from your thoughts Well, when you think how much you “want it gone” — you’re thinking OF IT Therefore it’s NOT gone from your thoughts quite a paradox …
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 …
Is Life Tension or Is Life a Cruise?
Life is tension Tension between life and death To be or not to be Tension between being and not being One day you are — next day you are not Life is tension One day you’re “good enough” — next day you’re rejected The wisdom is not in convincing yourself that you are indeed …
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 …
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 …