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 …
Tag: Mind
“THE BETTER WORLD” Problem
What do you think when you think of “THE BETTER WORLD”? Politics? Technology? You having more MONEY? Everyone being happier? Peak human achievement? FAIRNESS? Why I’m asking? Because actually, we don’t think the same things, when we think “THE BETTER WORLD” Many people unironically think the world is horrible, the world is burning. …
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 …
Labels Contributing Nuance (And Not Destroying Nuance)
Labels can be viewed as a layers in ontology It’s a way of organising data into categories Organisation of data yields insights Insights contribute nuance — rather than take away Labels destroy nuance if you: -start with a label (rather than the data) -then pigeonhole the data into that label, that category -and you …
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 …
Understanding Understanding (Labels)
-Variety, diversity means that objects have different properties. E.g. a cat has fur, it purrs, and is cute. Whereas a tree has leaves, a trunk, branches, and grows big -Existence of variety doesn’t preclude existence of a degree of homogeneity. Two objects can have some different properties — and some similar properties -Thus between two …
Modes of Wanting
-there’s something one wants -one is more wanting or less wanting -one either believes that what-one-wants is possible or not if he believes it’s indeed possible… -one either ACTS ON IT , DOESN’T ACT… or it’s a SPECTRUM (a hierarchy) -and to ALL OF THE ABOVE he can have anything from NEGATIVE to POSITIVE attitude …
Own Idea of Success
There’s success And there’s “success” What is success? I don’t know To me success is what you did today, and how conscious you were, and how ALIVE, but to you? I don’t know But i know what it is not It is not what someone else tells you it is And it is …
To Judge or Not To Judge
Update 2024.05.26: I have since written a more pragmatic take on the subject: To Judge or Not To Judge (#2) There’s observing And then there’s judging and comparing and labelling Indeed you must judge. Judge those you work with. Judge who to trust. Judge the potential dangers. Indeed you must compare. This is …
i don’t need to have this thought
I had this thought But then I realized I don’t need to have this thought And then I didn’t And I was free