I have been noticing recently a disturbing trend amoung a lot of my peers. We, as human beings, are constantly faced with any chance at distorting reality to deal with a problem, friend, lover, etc. Our heads, through television, radio, nature, or any outside tangable distraction, will lean on us and without careful concentration, we find it very hard to keep it out and on the outside. Our perceptions of ourselves and how we deal with things may sometimes completly differ with one of your friends. I swear, ignorance will eventually assassinate everyone one day, including myself...
The solution is quite simple and so full of sense it is ridiculous. Take some time, out of each day, to sit in a quiet area without a lot of distractions (we live in southern california but there are some places to do this.) Just reflect. Concentrate on your breath and motion. Block the world out and fuck what you know. When we close our eyes, there is nothing but lonleyness and a firm sense of insecurity...become that. If this can be overcome, then being alone and living life for yourself and not someone else doesn't seem that far out of the equation now, does it?
...internal conflict makes for an ontological rigidity of the self, which results in an obstinate blindness to things as they are...
...having been internally at odds with itself, the self was at odds with the world. The self was divided against itself and could not help but be inflexible and irrelevant to reality...tossed from one extreme to another...
[Once] one is out of the trap of trying, to get in and out of the trap is an enjoyment. One now plays with words, as one does with fire, without burns...
One acts only at an irresistible urge. Therefore one experiences no "inner turmoil" and naturally ceases to meddle with things or with men, going after nothing, welcoming nothing...
For Chuang Tzu, to come back to one's nature is to come home to nature in general...
I owe it to myself to return myself to my root, to my pristine simplicity...
-- Kuang-ming Wu, Chuang Tzu
matt
The solution is quite simple and so full of sense it is ridiculous. Take some time, out of each day, to sit in a quiet area without a lot of distractions (we live in southern california but there are some places to do this.) Just reflect. Concentrate on your breath and motion. Block the world out and fuck what you know. When we close our eyes, there is nothing but lonleyness and a firm sense of insecurity...become that. If this can be overcome, then being alone and living life for yourself and not someone else doesn't seem that far out of the equation now, does it?
...internal conflict makes for an ontological rigidity of the self, which results in an obstinate blindness to things as they are...
...having been internally at odds with itself, the self was at odds with the world. The self was divided against itself and could not help but be inflexible and irrelevant to reality...tossed from one extreme to another...
[Once] one is out of the trap of trying, to get in and out of the trap is an enjoyment. One now plays with words, as one does with fire, without burns...
One acts only at an irresistible urge. Therefore one experiences no "inner turmoil" and naturally ceases to meddle with things or with men, going after nothing, welcoming nothing...
For Chuang Tzu, to come back to one's nature is to come home to nature in general...
I owe it to myself to return myself to my root, to my pristine simplicity...
-- Kuang-ming Wu, Chuang Tzu
matt
spyro:
Can you imagine how wonderful the world would be if people just turned off their car radios in the morning commute so they started the day with a clear head? 