I don’t think there are many shoulds in how to live life— because who knows, really? But if there’s one should, it’s this: radically live how you want to. Whatever that means to you. It sounds obvious, yet almost no one actually does it. Most haven’t even thought deeply about...
I don’t think there are many shoulds in how to live life— because who knows, really?
But if there’s one should, it’s this: radically live how you want to. Whatever that means to you. It sounds obvious, yet almost no one actually does it. Most haven’t even thought deeply about why and how they want to live.
Let’s step back for a second.
We spawned into this mysterious universe with zero instructions. No clear purpose. Just here, suddenly, like magic. And one day—just as suddenly—we’ll be gone. It’s like we all woke up stranded on some cosmic island with strange matter, life, and laws, Lost style.
It's quite mind-blowing and absurd, really. And equally bizarre that most... (read 349 more words →)
One of the clearest examples of cofnitivr fusion is language processing. When someone’s speaking to you, try to listen to the sounds they’re making without translating them into words - it’s impossible. Visual processing is similar - try looking around without instantly classifying what you see into objects like chair, window, pillow, etc. In my peak clarity, I’m amazed at how bizarre my own hands are and how I can control them with my thought.
The extrapolation of this is every conscious experience is passing through layers of programming, and you don’t ever experience the “root reality”. Buddha’s breakthrough is that the root causes of suffering - aversions and attachments - are also just programming. And if you develop enough focus (through meditation or even drugs, and the 8 fold path), you’d see them for what they are, and they’d dissolve.
As they said in the Matrix, the secret to bending the spoon is realizing there is no spoon.