Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Vallejo
Tao Lin
A stoic philosophy based on the scientific fact that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors
We have our undesirable situations whether we are upset about them or not
if we are upset about our problems we have two problems: the problem and our being upset about it; with thoughts as the cause of emotions rather than the outcome the causal order is reversed. The benefit of this is that we can change our thoughts to feel or act differently regardless of the situation.
I need to win a major prize to shove in people's faces...
Note the similarities with buddhism:
A buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad; the sole problem of an undesirable situation is the absence of a philosophy allowing it to be desirable. The cessation of desire in western civilizations often coincides with the onset of severe depression.
A cessation or increase of suffering in relationships often effects increased focus on work or art. Let's compare the person shot with a rifle who worries about who manufactured the bullets rather than staunching the wound, with the person shot with a rifle who distances himself from the situation until the focus is on the distance itself.
.......
Like the buddhist concept of the cycle of birth and rebirth let me conceive a temporary philosophy to justify my behavior involving the dissemination of literature while maintaining and strengthening our identities. We should be aware that identity is a preconception. The purpose of that is yet unknown at this point. I felt a little sad this morning but was able to block it out
and now i feel better; implicitly we trust that once we discover what it is we are doing we will return to let ourselves know; the realization of what we are actually achieving will manifest from an as yet unoccupied perspective, a perspective with no metaphysical, temporal, or physical connection to our current situation with the understanding that thoughts are the cause
of emotions, pain, and the experience of time; and that thoughts can be extinguished with other thoughts or states of thoughtlessness.
We become wholly irrelevant to what already exists in the universe
all of which can be valuable tools in recovery
from Coconut Poetry
A stoic philosophy based on the scientific fact that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors
We have our undesirable situations whether we are upset about them or not
if we are upset about our problems we have two problems: the problem and our being upset about it; with thoughts as the cause of emotions rather than the outcome the causal order is reversed. The benefit of this is that we can change our thoughts to feel or act differently regardless of the situation.
I need to win a major prize to shove in people's faces...
Note the similarities with buddhism:
A buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad; the sole problem of an undesirable situation is the absence of a philosophy allowing it to be desirable. The cessation of desire in western civilizations often coincides with the onset of severe depression.
A cessation or increase of suffering in relationships often effects increased focus on work or art. Let's compare the person shot with a rifle who worries about who manufactured the bullets rather than staunching the wound, with the person shot with a rifle who distances himself from the situation until the focus is on the distance itself.
.......
Like the buddhist concept of the cycle of birth and rebirth let me conceive a temporary philosophy to justify my behavior involving the dissemination of literature while maintaining and strengthening our identities. We should be aware that identity is a preconception. The purpose of that is yet unknown at this point. I felt a little sad this morning but was able to block it out
and now i feel better; implicitly we trust that once we discover what it is we are doing we will return to let ourselves know; the realization of what we are actually achieving will manifest from an as yet unoccupied perspective, a perspective with no metaphysical, temporal, or physical connection to our current situation with the understanding that thoughts are the cause
of emotions, pain, and the experience of time; and that thoughts can be extinguished with other thoughts or states of thoughtlessness.
We become wholly irrelevant to what already exists in the universe
all of which can be valuable tools in recovery
from Coconut Poetry
# posted by Lamb Mouton @ 12:48 PM 
