"Exactly what are the problems we humans would like to solve?
The problem of unhappiness. Men don't like being unhappy. Frowns are bad for the complexion.
The problem of death. Death is felt to be a drag. Its silence is suspicious, a bit malevolent maybe. It is considered somewhat too permanent.
The problem of failure. It's not considered as much fun as success, but seems to arrive more frequently.
The problem of pain. Ingrown toenails, arthritis, headaches: the body always seems to stay one step ahead of Extra-Strength Tylenol.
The problem of love: it doesn't last, isn't returned, or is returned too zealously and jealously.
The problem of purpose: we don't seem able to find one or, having found one, we lose interest too rapidly.
The problem of reality: it's never quite clear what it is. John's and Jane's always seem to differ. Today's reality is tommorow's illusion. And today's illusion...
The problem of evil: usually other people's. Too many bad people are doing it to too few good people. God's police force is understaffed.
The problem of self: we can never quite figure out who we are or, having figured it out, find it pretty depressing.
The problem of enlightenment: we often want it, but seldom have it. We know there is some better way of life, know we're currently not livingt it, and want to get there from here.
Life, as the Buddha said, is a thousand follies. And the sage is he who plays with the thousand follies.
"The is one way to be wise", said the Buddha.
"What is it, O Matser?"
"To play fool". "
-From The Search for the Dice man-
My take on this one is: It doesn't matter what you do in life. If you jump at things without facts or if you do things that other people think is totally f*cked up. How much does that even matter? We are all an illusion anyway. I am more a buddhist thinker than a Christian thinker. I believe, really believe, that this thing we all call Reality, just is a Big Subject thing. Non of us see this world in the same way. Maybe we do to a fraction of a degree, but never ever will we see this world 100% the same. If this world now would be so Real as many people say, then shouldn't we all see this world exactly the same and shouldn't we all feel and act exactly the same way
?
And because this world never can be Real more than to the way we subjectly want it to be real, money too will never be anything but a fantasy subject in our fine subjective world. Money is just made up and this World we live in, this world of subjective viewpoints could very easily say: Well, today we use books as the new currency. Or today you could pay me with a poem. Money is just as made up as our lifes. We may say this is My Life and this is absolutly Real. But is it? Who knows?
In our eyes we have a blind spot. In that blind spot we can not see an object. Think about that. What we can't see, hear, smell or feel does not exist. So if you lost all of those senses, then how real would you're current Reality be? Isn't it fascinating how we fool our selves into believe everything we read, hear, feel and also what we smell? And isn't fascinating that we all fabricate these believes we have? Others do not create those fabrications, we ourselfs do because somehow we want to have those fabrications as real in our subjective world.
Think about this when it comes to made up illnesses. People can actually fool themselfs to the ultimate degree that they have an illness that the body in the end, actually creates it as on demand. You create your own subjective world. If you want to have cancer, believe me, it is totally possible to fool your body to believe you have it. The only thing that is needed is a very vivid imagination that you yourself believes in. It is absolutly possible to fool yourself to believe something that wasn't there before. One way is through being in a trance state. Hypnosis as they call it.
The interesting thing with Reality is that Reality is what we say it is. Not what others say. What others say is ultimately what you say. You yourself creates this world. And everything in it. What you don't want to have in your world you just eliminate from your periferi. You just cast a blind eye at those things. It's as easy as that. You can see many successful people doing that. They are with people they like, they see what they want to see and what they want to hear. Everyone else are slaves to their own evil demons. They snare themselfs in their subjective creations. And they could very easily unsnare themself if they knew how much power they have. We have what we want to have. We are what we want to be. No one forces us, we create it ourselfs.
I guess you all wonder if I am really crazy. But the first stage to being rich and also free mentally is by understanding that Reality is what you say it is. And this means, you decide how you see the world.
The problem of unhappiness. Men don't like being unhappy. Frowns are bad for the complexion.
The problem of death. Death is felt to be a drag. Its silence is suspicious, a bit malevolent maybe. It is considered somewhat too permanent.
The problem of failure. It's not considered as much fun as success, but seems to arrive more frequently.
The problem of pain. Ingrown toenails, arthritis, headaches: the body always seems to stay one step ahead of Extra-Strength Tylenol.
The problem of love: it doesn't last, isn't returned, or is returned too zealously and jealously.
The problem of purpose: we don't seem able to find one or, having found one, we lose interest too rapidly.
The problem of reality: it's never quite clear what it is. John's and Jane's always seem to differ. Today's reality is tommorow's illusion. And today's illusion...
The problem of evil: usually other people's. Too many bad people are doing it to too few good people. God's police force is understaffed.
The problem of self: we can never quite figure out who we are or, having figured it out, find it pretty depressing.
The problem of enlightenment: we often want it, but seldom have it. We know there is some better way of life, know we're currently not livingt it, and want to get there from here.
Life, as the Buddha said, is a thousand follies. And the sage is he who plays with the thousand follies.
"The is one way to be wise", said the Buddha.
"What is it, O Matser?"
"To play fool". "
-From The Search for the Dice man-
My take on this one is: It doesn't matter what you do in life. If you jump at things without facts or if you do things that other people think is totally f*cked up. How much does that even matter? We are all an illusion anyway. I am more a buddhist thinker than a Christian thinker. I believe, really believe, that this thing we all call Reality, just is a Big Subject thing. Non of us see this world in the same way. Maybe we do to a fraction of a degree, but never ever will we see this world 100% the same. If this world now would be so Real as many people say, then shouldn't we all see this world exactly the same and shouldn't we all feel and act exactly the same way
?And because this world never can be Real more than to the way we subjectly want it to be real, money too will never be anything but a fantasy subject in our fine subjective world. Money is just made up and this World we live in, this world of subjective viewpoints could very easily say: Well, today we use books as the new currency. Or today you could pay me with a poem. Money is just as made up as our lifes. We may say this is My Life and this is absolutly Real. But is it
? Who knows?In our eyes we have a blind spot. In that blind spot we can not see an object. Think about that. What we can't see, hear, smell or feel does not exist. So if you lost all of those senses, then how real would you're current Reality be
? Isn't it fascinating how we fool our selves into believe everything we read, hear, feel and also what we smell? And isn't fascinating that we all fabricate these believes we have? Others do not create those fabrications, we ourselfs do because somehow we want to have those fabrications as real in our subjective world. Think about this when it comes to made up illnesses. People can actually fool themselfs to the ultimate degree that they have an illness that the body in the end, actually creates it as on demand. You create your own subjective world. If you want to have cancer, believe me, it is totally possible to fool your body to believe you have it. The only thing that is needed is a very vivid imagination that you yourself believes in. It is absolutly possible to fool yourself to believe something that wasn't there before. One way is through being in a trance state. Hypnosis as they call it.
The interesting thing with Reality is that Reality is what we say it is. Not what others say. What others say is ultimately what you say. You yourself creates this world. And everything in it. What you don't want to have in your world you just eliminate from your periferi. You just cast a blind eye at those things. It's as easy as that. You can see many successful people doing that. They are with people they like, they see what they want to see and what they want to hear. Everyone else are slaves to their own evil demons. They snare themselfs in their subjective creations. And they could very easily unsnare themself if they knew how much power they have. We have what we want to have. We are what we want to be. No one forces us, we create it ourselfs.
I guess you all wonder if I am really crazy. But the first stage to being rich and also free mentally is by understanding that Reality is what you say it is. And this means, you decide how you see the world.
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