"As long as we think, act, live via an object, or as an object: that is bondage."

[nyuanshin]

Indra half-joked the other day that if we were constrained to speak only truth, nobody would say anything at all. Inaccurate like most humor, but one gets the point

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[hypnos7]

Also to acknowledge that trying to do everything at once is a recipe for doing nothing at all.

This.

When you're an abstract thinker, obsessing about the big picture is the easy thing to do. The hard thing to do is realize that the future cannot be controlled, it can only be prepared for. Better to enjoy the preparations, i.e. live in the moment.

[hypnos7]

i am reminded once again of Kalidasa:

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of achievement
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.

[csn]

Yes, it is a hard lesson to learn--and there are not a lot of us out there, so it often feels that you're figuring it out alone.

[mausoz]

Nice :)

[ashaper]

Not quite ready to give up my narrative.

Is this the Indra you're referring to? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra's_net) :)

[nyuanshin]

Friend at a coffee shop, not god at Mount Meru. :)

[xshardsx]

I want to make sure it is very opaque that I say this with much due admiration and respect, mind: Saying one doesn't exist doesn't necessarily make it true. Recognition of such is a good stepping stone along the path; as good as a number of others.
As Laing wrote: All distinctions are mind, by mind, in mind, of mind;
No distinctions no mind to distinguish.
You are a very refined and distinguished man, sir, who steadfastly keeps the company of very refined and distinguished people.

Trying to abolish everything at once is a recipe to abolish nothing at all.

[queueball]

Hahaha. So much to share, so little to say. It's a thing. Triangulate from "Rock on" and "Oh for fuck's sake" and "Yep" and, well, that.

[nyuanshin]

Yeah, I dig. Been quiet lately, but your entries have continued to evoke similar responses in me.