22 September, 2024
Defining reality
23 June, 2024
First child
04 February, 2024
04 November, 2023
Here's a tip
23 July, 2023
Alan Watts defines zen
18 February, 2023
12 February, 2023
All the religion you need
30 October, 2021
Nondual awarness put in simple terms
We classify other animals and living beings as nature, acting as if we ourselves are not part of it. Then we pose the question ‘How should we deal with Nature?’ We should deal with nature the way we should deal with ourselves! We should not harm ourselves; we should not harm nature... Human beings and nature are inseparable.
-- Thích Nhất Hạnh
07 February, 2021
Morality has evolutionary benefits
At the personal level having morals constrains the ego and results in group benefit by facilitating cooperation. Of course like everything else morals are relative.
24 December, 2020
Thus Spake Zarathustra
"On my honour, friend," Zarathustra answered, "what thou speakest of doth not exist: there is no devil nor hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: henceforward fear nothing."
The man looked up suspiciously : "If thou speakest truth," he said, "losing my life I lose nothing. Then I am not much more than an animal which by means of blows and titbits hath been taught to dance."
14 June, 2020
"In the absolute we are forgiven, in the relative we are responsible"
07 June, 2020
Ancestors
25 January, 2020
The funny thing about ego
Why doesn't it then?
The simple answer is that i have not yet reached the point i'm describing above. But if self preservation is directly proportionate with the size of the ego, why should i even want to?
On a more abstract level, the ego is as natural as anything else, so all the points of view about it are equally valid, be that egofullness or egolessness and anything in between. What is then the buddhist middle way good for i wonder? Is it simply follow the "everything in moderation" rule of thumb? But to what end? To live a mediocre life for as long as possible? Both egofull and egoless men die and nothing really matters in the end but isn't one more fun than the other? Fun being pleasure*, isn't hedonism the only thing i'm really doing in this life?
* by pleasure i mean any kind of self-satisfaction (and not just immediate), no matter how altruistic or noble the actions they still ultimately give me pleasure thus feeding my ego (even suffering can fit in this category like if by it you can save someone's life or if you sacrifice yourself for gains in the future)
04 October, 2019
19 September, 2019
Universal Truth?
03 June, 2019
Good morals
03 February, 2019
If you can only see 14 rocks
One mind cannot understand everything, including the fact that it cannot understand everything. A long time ago i asked myself how am i supposed to understand this world with imperfect senses. There is no such thing as absolute understanding, something i've mistakenly thought of as enlightenment. All i can hope for is to do my best with the limited information i have.
The "why" is not important. The "how" might be.
28 October, 2018
One answer to all our questions
14 May, 2018
Karma and Reincarnation
10 December, 2017
11 November, 2017
02 November, 2017
Lonely
Why is it so hard for me to make new friends? Why is it hard to keep the current ones?