I can imagine the solace that a belief - however unfounded in reason or fact - in some "higher" purpose or "power" can indeed provide. Counterproductive (content people rarely do what is necessary for a better tomorrow, for themselves or others), perhaps, but comforting
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I keep meaning to get into some firmly grounded daily habits, in addition to a few that are already (coffee, tea, apple and cheese snacks, news). So, here we go.
One of the properties of enlightenment is that it's not infinite. It is recurring, and incremental. (Another wording: the first realization is kensho, and the deeper realizations that follow are satori
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Apparently, I'm feeling a mix of existentialistic and nihilistic at the moment (not that there's not some significant overlap). But I'm feeling very acutely, at the moment, the... sensation (I don't want to say "pain") of temporal loss. That is, loss over time - not loss of time, though that's also at play
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