on being entirely too eager to know what makes the universe tick

[tosei]

now that my protracted absence has no doubt driven away most of the people who read this, I will take the opportunity to write thoughtfully about something

Comments

[roses_rejoice]

Sometimes you just have to give stuff a chance to sort out

[jimmyether]

I always enjoy posts like this for some reason. And I find it amazing that you were so focused on something like Buddhism at such a young age. If you don't mind me asking, what is your religious leaning these days? I can't say I really have a specific one myself, so I only ask out of curiosity.

[meliorist_k]

I think Nietzsche said something along the lines of: "happiness precedes virtue", in "The Antichrist".

As the saying goes, 'As a man thinketh, so shall he be.'
Half of why striving is so damn painful. When we work hard at our theology, we -problematise- it, and that's when we start to focus almost exclusively on the security and confidence we know others to want from religion. It's hard to believe in the same way after we've framed religion as a crutch, no?

At the risk of sounding like a personal development book... we must be solution-oriented, at least when we're not -intentionally- mulling over our problems. I'm working on coming out of a depression myself, one of the causes being a feeling of estrangement from Divinity, which, for me, is rather like the ancient Greek concept of 'genius'. Right now, I'm trying to settle for eudaimonia, -literally-, as a "good spirit within". I think that from there, we can move to trying to get in touch with any putative Divine ground.