the tao you think of is not the tao, i agree but why not talk about the tao i'm thinking of even that, even that is so wonderful, as much of an empty cognitive construct as it is. i dunno, i'm still new to all this, i'm still 'giving in to astonishment'. now this being must travel down the mountain and go back to market.
oh yeah I know. I haven't walked out of the forest either. Just poked my head out and then went right back in.
change = trauma this is true for all beings stars to pupae to bacteria to raptor jesus. maybe its nice to have some greenery in your life?
we do it's just old news to everyone and then you forget and then it's cool again and then old news again everyone is on their own cycle
yeah pr0ne is right very few people actually get it i spoke with my friend on the phone today about this how do you just accept it all and continue washing the dishes . . . how does anything happen. i just feel profoundly cosmically overwhelmed sometimes. the infinity of infinities all around us in everything, every little thing. gah i have no reaction to things like that ^ other than to fall down and bow and while i do that i realize that is so ridiculous, in the sense that i may as well bow to myself or to the economy or to the university of toronto or to my mother or to my thoughts on space travel or to . . . relayer says we are the stars trying to understand themselves i like that i would say we are the universe bowing to itself. we are the universe brushing its teeth. gah x infinity
I have a constant flow of inner dialogue between my self and mind sober, but I always figured most people did.
we must not know the same people lol your average dumbass who doesn't even know there's a world outside his or her first-world western 21st century lifestyle is the norm. threads like these are mostly posted in by the exception. it's not condescending, it's just a plain fact. people go through their lives without stopping once to ask why they do the things they do, or why they SHOULD do those things. Not to even mention the bigger, more abstract questions. Hell, you even bring it up to most people and they'll laugh in your face that you talk about bullshit like that. they are buddhas as well ps. i notice you reject formulations of existential axioms. i think it's fine to throw some around in your mind and live by them, my 2 cents. if they tend to follow experiential data, why not. i know why not in the grand scale, but like brah, for these forums, why not.
Perception : 1.) The kind that only receives what conforms to comfort 2.) The kind that is blown away but lumps into piles while the inexpressable remains illusive 3.) The kind that gets more and more blown away perpetually
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Just trying to explain to the man that there is nothing that makes his experience greater than any other experience, because they are all illusory in the end. By the way, you lost me when you contradicted yourself on your views of the "average" people. I was left not knowing how you really felt. And I have no clue what a formulation of existential axioms are.