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Various musings while walking (part 19)

Jun 11, 2009 13:31

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lapidus_93 June 12 2009, 17:32:46 UTC

The highest virtue is to be unconscious of "virtuousness."

Perhaps this could hold at both top and bottom of the ladder of attainment, because this state sounds similar to that of a person with no goals or ambitions, who simply floats aimlessly from moment to moment.

Living in the city is living in an ocean of contempt (and neuroticism, superficiality, obsession, triviality, etc.) - one can't help but be consumed & enveloped by it all unless one is ice-cold or super-heated...

Yet, urban living allows a greater variety of interactive experiences with other people.

iao131 June 13 2009, 05:08:07 UTC

93,

First: Certainly. There is a reason holy men like children & animals I think, for a similar reason (the highest & lowest look quite similar)

Second: True. And living in a mountain cave allows a greater variety of introspective experiences (if that is your 'style'). I mightve prefaced by saying 'Especially for an introvert...'

Thanks for the comments.

IAO131

andsoitisso June 13 2009, 04:33:18 UTC

" Outward expression of inward intentions - A redwood's bark is just like the words of a poet or prophet - they are the husks of crystallized energy, Spirit-made-ink or Energy-made-bar, and yet this static exterior is the only face others see. [6.9.09 ( ... )

Husks, souls, and some Nietzsche iao131 June 13 2009, 05:12:54 UTC

93,

Im well, how are you?

In fact, we literally are 'stardust' as Sagan was fond of saying (Parsons said it first!! :P) In a way 'light' is an apt metaphor or a good word for 'energy' and we are, by all accounts, manifestations of energy. As my physicist professor was fond of saying "We are what the expanding universe is doing here and now."

Indeed, the body-spirit thing also applies to the dichotomy explained above (spirit vs. ink etc). Nietzsche has a nice quote that is something to the effect of, "Today an awakened one might say 'I am an animal-transformation/animalization of God'... In that sense, the husks seem not like 'husks' but simply the most 'exterior layer' of our Selves...

IAO131