12-19-2007, 03:21 PM
Hi Crow.
The definition of what is is that it is whether you like the idea or not, whether you accept it or not. What is is what is - there isn't anything else. It is much more automatic to think we can reject what is, than to accept what is - by 'accept' I mean to just see it. To see what is instead of seeing our thinking - our interpretation of what is, our desire for what should be. All that is escapism, which I used to think was wasteful.
What we really don't want to accept about what is is our thoughts about it. What is is always perfectly fine; our thoughts about what is make us want to change it, to want it to be something else. It already is something else (it's everything else) - we just have to stop thinking about it with our past, our knowledge.
I'm not clear if your bottom line is to not be miserable or to not be an automaton. Are you clear on it?
I think there are people who like the idea of not being an automaton, but really have no realisation of what that entails. Do you realise that you can't have any knowledge, any idea of a self - the being called "Crow" - in order to not be an automaton? As long as you have knowledge, your life will be experienced through that knowledge, and thus be predictable and automatic. If you want to alter your life by altering your knowledge, you can do that. But is that being free, or is that choosing a new automaton? Maybe you wouldn't feel miserable if you could choose whatever automaton whenever you so desired. And when you get there, will the automaton that you are now be any less free than any other automaton that you can become? Does 'options' = not miserable? Or does being free of the self that holds the knowledge of what constitutes miserable and not miserable....
The definition of what is is that it is whether you like the idea or not, whether you accept it or not. What is is what is - there isn't anything else. It is much more automatic to think we can reject what is, than to accept what is - by 'accept' I mean to just see it. To see what is instead of seeing our thinking - our interpretation of what is, our desire for what should be. All that is escapism, which I used to think was wasteful.
What we really don't want to accept about what is is our thoughts about it. What is is always perfectly fine; our thoughts about what is make us want to change it, to want it to be something else. It already is something else (it's everything else) - we just have to stop thinking about it with our past, our knowledge.
I'm not clear if your bottom line is to not be miserable or to not be an automaton. Are you clear on it?
I think there are people who like the idea of not being an automaton, but really have no realisation of what that entails. Do you realise that you can't have any knowledge, any idea of a self - the being called "Crow" - in order to not be an automaton? As long as you have knowledge, your life will be experienced through that knowledge, and thus be predictable and automatic. If you want to alter your life by altering your knowledge, you can do that. But is that being free, or is that choosing a new automaton? Maybe you wouldn't feel miserable if you could choose whatever automaton whenever you so desired. And when you get there, will the automaton that you are now be any less free than any other automaton that you can become? Does 'options' = not miserable? Or does being free of the self that holds the knowledge of what constitutes miserable and not miserable....