“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
—Robert Frost
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Our ways of knowing it must also change and have variety.
Live your life with discipline and explore relentlessly.
Do not limit yourself.
Tao is known by the free.
Only the disciplined are free to chase the flow.
Eternal flux rules the universe.
Speak from your own experience.
Quoting words is useless.
The only real value is in firsthand experience.
Look, feel, no books needed, you are surrounded by Tao.
Do you exist?
Yes!
Then where is your self?
We only see these vessels.
There is something unseen beyond the body.
You are a good schoolboy Dan, but a terrible witness of your self.
I don’t hear your own experience in your words.
You are a fraud.
You are a pretender.
You do not know yourself.
You are a muppet.
The mind is both friend and enemy.
The mind subverts you.
The mind is not real.
Your mind has only obscured your true nature.
Internal strength is superior to Joe Rogan’s strength.
Pursuing power and intellect, astral travel and clairvoyance, these only strengthen your trap.
Remote viewing is a parlor trick compared to what I am pointing at.
Know magic, shun magic.
The gods are also trapped in their own minds.
They live for eternity clinging to their identities.
Identity is the ultimate trap.
You have exposed your great lie Dan.
You refuse to see it.
There is something more than omnipotency, omniscience, and omnipresence.
There is something besides the gods.
The gods are as pathetic as humans in the delight for powers.
The great weakness is believing in the self.
So if words and books and mind are not enough, or gods, then what else is there?
Without all that other stuff, there is only Tao.
Do you understand death?
You think individual awareness transcends the body?
Is that what you want?
Your only concern should be liberation.
Liberation from one’s own mind.
To cling to identity is the ultimate trap.
You are a fool Dan Smith.
You are a prisoner.
Worse, a warden.
There is still something higher.
The best is emptiness.
Don’t try to be immortal.
Even the gods die.
Live long enough to fulfill your destiny.
How to be free?
Have a goal in life. Have a purpose and your life will be purposeful. Have a meaning and your life will be meaningful. Make a decision and stick to it, not dogmatically or rigidly. Persevere and be flexible. Once a goal has been selected, nothing else must interfere. Cut all that is ordinarily considered essential in order to find meaning. If one has a powerful motivation for living, then choices are clear cut. With discipline, sacrifices are made for a higher goal, and one acts with confidence and directness. Then you will go into the source satisfied that you’ve completed your life on earth. Nothing will pull you back. You will be free.
What is the source?
I can not ever tell or show you or anyone.
You must find it yourself.
The Way is liberation from every shackle of socialization and materialism.
There is no heaven or hell to hope for or fear.
No rewards or jewels of light.
Nothing otherworldly.
Everything can be done in this lifetime.
Not postponed until another life or an afterlife.
All that there is to know can he known in this life.
This is the journey to Wu Wei, nothingness.
Then you can realize Tao.
The limitless.
The great mystery.
Not known by common or mystical means.
But by shedding consciousness itself.
It is the dynamic flow no one can alter.
The human race cannot alter its course.
It is like water.
The source is beginning and end.
It accepts all.
You cannot permanently realize it, you can only follow the Way.
All exists in mind, you and I don’t exist separately of anything.
I exist in your mind and you in mine.
There is simply confusion between us and everyone else that we don’t realize this.
To name a self is duality and a delusion.
There is no self in and of itself.
One should not leave this life until they have determined their destiny and fulfilled it.
Yuh should not escape or take any easy path away from this life.
One should persevere.
Jesus accomplished this I feel.
He almost broke in the garden.
But he preserved unto death.
He left free.
Resolve all sorrows and regrets.
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Spirituality that is never tested by bitterness, that never has to face the dilemmas or contradictory experiences, can never be strong, true, or honest.
That is real integrity.
No, we do not exist, we are part of each other.
Spirituality is not a fantasy.
I am not special.
I seek the reasons for my life.
I seek to help those I meet without binding them to myself.
I have found my/the Way and I will follow it wherever it takes me for the rest of my days and I will be true to my life.
This is all I have.
One must have a goal.
Nothing mystical there.
This focus on a goal should not be the adaptation of an identity. Quite the opposite. Taoism teaches the gradual fulfillment of one’s life task along with the simultaneous detachment from worldly priorities. At this point, meditation becomes supreme. Each person has a human identity. That self has to be understood. Once its mystery is illuminated, one can forsake identification with the world and the self. This identification is our bondage. If we free ourselves from such bondage, the liberated soul returns to its source.
That source is Nothingness.
“Taoism's "Nothingness" vs Buddhism's "Emptiness". There are similarities and differeneces between Taoism's "Nothingness" (无) vs Buddhism's "Emptiness" (空).
Both "Nothingnesss" and "Emptiness" are not simply referring to the absence of phyical things. It is about the realization of the "being" of one self and the universe.
Taoism and Buddhism believe that the universe is created or origninated from "Nothingness" or "Emptiness". It is interesting that the modern science also proposed that there is "nothing" before the creation of universe. ie. Before time and space exist, there is ‘nothing’.”
The self is intricate and complex. Only meditation can lead one through the many layers of the self. Each layer is infinite in its potential parameters. If one begins to explore even the most esoteric dimensions of the mind, psychic powers, for example, there is a danger that one will come to identify with such powers and forget the ultimate importance of simplicity and nonattachment to an identity. One may even continue on to eternity in the thrilling vistas of the mind, perhaps even becoming a god, but one will fail to find any unity with a kosmos because one is completely involved in self-love. This is what it means to fall into delusion. Only by entering stillness and looking within can one adequately bring forth the hidden mysteries and powers of the mind, examine them, and then discard them. Only through meditation can we avoid entrapment in the labyrinth of the mind. Only in meditation can we dissolve the personality.
This is not written Taoism, this is real Taoism, the practice is to let go of one’s identity. It only offers progressive simplification past the point of zero.
What is the difference between consciousness and awareness?
The difference is the biggest possible.
Advaita Vedanta says this is THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Here’s what 5,000 years of expertise has concluded.
Awareness is first — consciousness is derivative. Awareness is pure — consciousness is mixed. Awareness is immanent — consciousness is bounded. Awareness is silence — consciousness is noise. Awareness is truth — consciousness is illusory. Awareness is one — consciousness is two. Awareness is perfect — consciousness is lacking. Awareness is immaterial — consciousness is matter. Awareness is Self — consciousness is ego. Awareness is God — consciousness is God’s manifestation.
But the above does not amount to an answer. The ancients set down these descriptions but warned that they are not the keys to enlightenment. These concepts are merely to persuade the intellect and allure the heart that awareness should be sought and consciousness eschewed.
THE ANSWER
We cannot be given the answer.
Why?
Because the answer is not found in any operation of consciousness. Only awareness will fulfill the heart and intellect. To give logic and emotions to the mind that wants truth is like giving pictures of food to the hungry.
SOLUTION
No solution needed.
We directly realize awareness all the time. Everyone insists they are here, now, and aware. No more awareness of awareness is possible.
But consciousness can be made quieter, so that awareness can become resplendent. When one meditates and relaxes, awareness remains unchanged but appears to become more “noticeable” due to the noise level coming down.
As we come closer and closer to deep quiescence, we begin to see silence as more real than noise.
At some point, identity toggles. We flip from being conscious to being aware.
That’s the enlightenment paradigm shift. That’s the sole answer to the above question.
The reason I don’t need to be on OMF, is because there is nothing to say.
Tao is realized in silence, a quieting of the mind.
I’m happy to see Alan Watts seeping out of the internet.
He figured some stuff out, meaning he stopped trying to figure stuff out.
He really echoed many from history.
“The real secret of life is to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
—Alan Watts
The above has been the realization of my life.
Focus on and fully engage with anything you are doing.
Living this way, life is great fun.
Just watch kids play, they will remind you of this if you have forgotten.
I remember how much fun chasing bubbles was.
Another playful dude was Ben Franklin, one of my heroes and I think one of the greatest human beings to have lived.
He made virtue his life’s goal, as I have.
“But, on the whole, tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it…”
Protagonist asks master, "Why should I try to be so religious?"
Master replies, "I said nothing about religion. Religion means other people are on your path too. They'll drag you down. No, you must be your own person, and you must resist following others' ideals."
"You must know yourself, bring what is within yourself to fruition."
Crozz pozt, fightin the cenzorzhip or lezzor beingz.
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Foot Mann wrote:Joseph Firmage released a video application to fill the vacuum of leadership in this Nation. It is similar to the video application to Harvard Law School included in Legally Blonde, but focusing on many real issues facing America. I am sure this will be my last post as an honorable Left Foot, so please read it carefully and consider learning more about Joseph Firmage and his quest to Make America Great Again. May the next Left Foot step forward!
I hope thiz is your last post!
Dan will delete my response because he is a liar, I’m sure.
Left 🦶 you are cluelezz muppetz.
Bahahaha, what foolish muppetz left 🦶 are.
I have beaten every one.
They can’t touch me or my awarenezz.
Unlike them, I have no agenda and am not lying.
I am so far beyond them and Dan.
Bahahahaha
What cluelezz foolz.
Who do they think they are speaking to here?!
They should pay me!
The smelly haz beaten every one.
They are waaaayyyy out of their depth here.
Foolish muppetz!
Do not look to a nation to lead thyself.
Know and lead thyself!
Bahahahaha
I need no leader!
What foolz and liarz the left 🦶 are.
Pathetic!
“It was a good ship sister.”
“Do you know why a ship floats and a stone cannot? Because a stone only sees downward. The darkness of the water is vast and irresistible.
The ship feels the darkness as well, striving moment by moment to master her and pull her under.
But the ship has a secret.
For unlike the stone her gaze is not downward, but up.
Fixed upon the light that guides her.
Whispering of grander things than darkness ever knew.”
A story about Fulcanelli, the Master Alchemist and his contact with early physicists pre-WWII.
He may be alive today.
The meeting between Jacques Bergier and Fulcanelli reportedly occurred during June 1937 in a laboratory of the Gas Board in Paris. According to Neil Powell, the following is a translation of the original verbatim transcript of the rendezvous:
"You're on the brink of success, as indeed are several others of our scientists today. Please, allow me. Be very very careful. I warn you... The liberation of nuclear power is easier than you think and the radioactivity artificially produced can poison the atmosphere of our planet in a very short time: a few years. Moreover, atomic explosives can be produced from a few grains of metal powerful enough to destroy whole cities. I'm telling you this for a fact: the alchemists have known it for a very long time... I shall not attempt to prove to you what I'm now going to say but I ask you to repeat it to Mr. Helbronner: certain geometrical arrangements of highly purified materials are enough to release atomic forces without having recourse to either electricity or vacuum techniques... The secret of alchemy is this: there is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force'. The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call the Great Work."
Science with no conscience is a scourge.
The OSS, pre-cursor to the CIA, was obsessed with finding Fulcanelli.
Perhaps we have blown ourselves up before.
Fulcanelli explains that ancient humans knew of atomic power and had destroyed their world.
We are still children, playing god.
But I tell you, we may become gods in our lifetime if we accomplish The Great Work.
Fucanelli’s student, Canseliet, met him in the 1950s in Spain and observed Fulcanelli had transformed into the divine hemaphrodite.
Just a tall tale?
This is my kind of mystery.
So far beyond today’s vulgar conspiracies, which so often lack imagination and flair.
There is something about the turn of the 19th to the 20th century that captivates.
I enjoy the strange green writing from that time.
I associate the color green with that era.
Hesse, Gustav Meyrink, the Golden Dawn and Yeats, there was an eruption of Esoteric interest and many frauds to be sure.
I love Hesse and Meyrink’s writing.
Anyway, what kind of man was Canseliet, a liar, fraud?
There is a theory Canseliet’s master was Champagne, a previous collaborator, who was a joker and colorful.
Liked to counterfeit medieval documents.
Was Fulcanelli real?
Canseliet said Fulcanelli’s initiator was Basile Valentine, a possible fake persona from the 1500s who was a master and probably a nom de plum for a hidden master.
Fulcanelli’s books are considered alchemical masterpieces.
Some fascinating and cloudy mysteries.
The Great Work though is real, I can attest that who I was was transmuted into this strange being I have become.
To have any clue about what is happening today and what is eschatological, yes you have to understand Metaphysics.
Metaphysics "things after the ones about the natural world" a la Aristotle. Metaphysics is a type of philosophy or study that uses broad concepts to help define reality and our understanding of it.
“ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things.
Again, we do not regard any of the senses as Wisdom; yet surely these give the most authoritative knowledge of particulars. But they do not tell us the 'why' of anything-e.g. why fire is hot; they only say that it is hot.
We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties; but the point of our present discussion is this, that all men suppose what is called Wisdom to deal with the first causes and the principles of things; so that, as has been said before, the man of experience is thought to be wiser than the possessors of any sense-perception whatever, the artist wiser than the men of experience, the masterworker than the mechanic, and the theoretical kinds of knowledge to be more of the nature of Wisdom than the productive. Clearly then Wisdom is knowledge about certain principles and causes.
Since we are seeking this knowledge, we must inquire of what kind are the causes and the principles, the knowledge of which is Wisdom. If one were to take the notions we have about the wise man, this might perhaps make the answer more evident. We suppose first, then, that the wise man knows all things, as far as possible, although he has not knowledge of each of them in detail; secondly, that he who can learn things that are difficult, and not easy for man to know, is wise (sense-perception is common to all, and therefore easy and no mark of Wisdom); again, that he who is more exact and more capable of teaching the causes is wiser, in every branch of knowledge; and that of the sciences, also, that which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of Wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results, and the superior science is more of the nature of Wisdom than the ancillary; for the wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.
Such and so many are the notions, then, which we have about Wisdom and the wise. Now of these characteristics that of knowing all things must belong to him who has in the highest degree universal knowledge; for he knows in a sense all the instances that fall under the universal. And these things, the most universal, are on the whole the hardest for men to know; for they are farthest from the senses.”
—Aristotle - Metaphysics
The modern understanding of literal eschatology is rubbish mostly created by fundamentalist cults.
It’s nonsense for the stupid.
This would include my lovely simple mother.
In the context of mysticism, the term refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and to reunion with the divine.
Final participation, conscious participation.
This is what my experience with the topic has pointed to.
Knowing and union with thyself.
Flowing in the Tao.
The Taoist faith is not concerned with what came before or after life, knowing only their own being in the Tao. The philosophy is that people come and go, just like mountains, trees and stars, but Tao will go on for time immemorial.
I lean towards the Taoists more than anyone.
I take a pragmatic view of History.
Be the best today that you can be, worry not about what will happen, but be prepared for the worst.
Do not be shackled by prophecy of this or that faith.
How can you best prepare for union?
Do it.
Become aware of where you are and how you interact and move in matter.
You will not find ultimate answers, but you will find something profound.
I won’t spoil the surprise.
It’s a once in a lifetime kind of thing.
Still, one must till and prepare the ground for the seeds of wisdom to sprout.
One must clean their own house instead of trying to change the world or worry about what others do.
Fire will test us, will anything of value remain is up to each individual.
One must lift themselves up.
Staying focused on your own integrity and quality is the best way to know the world in my smelly opinion.
Most modern religions are just derivative rubbish and can be swept away.
You would do well to go back, to first principles and take no one’s word ultimately as the ultimate word.
For within us I have found is a mediating Logos.
It will guide you.
You can and should trust it.
This is truly wondrous and mysterious and very real if you consciously connect to it.
Your mind and reasoning itself is evidence of things unseen.
Until one does uncover this, they are unconsciously driven and tossed about, not knowing why they do what they do.
They are dominated by their base passions and bodily appetites.
The more you feed the monster, the more powerful it becomes.
But if you can learn to wean yourself from sensual experience, an entirely new world opens unto you.
And there are road signs and maps strewn and hidden in history.
History is a wonderful journey and path of self discovery for the mind that raises itself up above the herd and stays open.
This journey cost me all my beloved beliefs and I am so glad I let them go.
I was spending some time with Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger recently.
I have gone all the way down the Existential gauntlet, I feel this is the only way to freedom from the trap of belief.
One faces the end of all meaning and value, all happiness and belief.
Brought to the point of despair.
Brought to the edge of the Abyss.
Then something amazing can happen.
You can jump into madness or pure faith.
I guess I chose faith.
It is still such an upside down path and paradoxical journey.
I see the wisdom and truth of it.
God is dead and we have killed it.
We have come to the end of our belief.
So what shall it be, madness or faith?
One comes to see the utter absurdity of being without any connection.
Kierkegaard offered the term "leap" to replace the Hegelian notion of mediation between two opposing elements.
Kierkegaard's concept of leap points to a state in which a person is faced with a choice that cannot be justified rationally and he therefore has to leap into it. The leap of faith is, therefore, a leap into faith which is allowed by it, stemming from a Paradoxical contradiction between the ethical and the religious.
Unlike Hegel, he did not feel logic and reason exists in faith, so he bypassed Descartes.
Heidegger said Sarte misunderstood him about existence before essence.
Heidegger said, “The ‘essence’ of Dasein lies in its existence” (Being and Time, Section 9, p. 67)
He did not mean that actions take precedence over being so long as those actions were not reflected upon. For Heidegger, Wesen isn't simply the quidditas or 'whatness' that philosophy might traditionally have understood essence as being. Instead, it is the 'Wesen' that appears in the German 'anwesend', which means present. So, the Wesen of something – the essence of something – is the way that it endures as presence; we are therefore best to understand essence (of technology, truth, or whatever else) in Heidegger as an essencing – an enduring-as-presence, rather than a static quidditas of a thing.
But to Dasein, Being in a world is something that belongs essentially.
(Being and Time, Section 4, p. 33)
In this everydayness there are certain structures which we shall exhibit — not just any accidental structures, but essential ones which, in every kind of Being that factical Dasein may possess, persist as determinative for the character of its Being.
(Being and Time, Section 5, p. 38)
“Being-in” is thus the formal existential expression for the Being of Dasein, which has Being-in-the-world as its essential state.
(Being and Time, Section 12, p. 80)
Not until we understand Being-in-the-world as an essential structure of Dasein can we have any insight into Dasein’s existential spatiality.
(Being and Time, Section 12, p. 83)
Because Being-in-the-world belongs essentially to Dasein, its Being towards the world is essentially concern.
(Being and Time, Section 12, p. 84)
Because Dasein is essentially an entity with Being-in, it can explicitly discover those entities which it encounters environmentally, it can know them, it can avail itself of them, it can have the ‘world’.
(Being and Time, Section 12, p. 84)
If we now ask what shows itself in the phenomenal findings about knowing, we must keep in mind that knowing is grounded beforehand in a Being-already-alongside-the-world, which is essentially constitutive for Dasein’s Being.
(Being and Time, Section 12, p. 84)
If Dasein is ontically constituted by Being-in-the-World, and if an understanding of the Being of its Self belongs just as essentially to its Being, no matter how indefinite that understanding may be, then does not Dasein have an understanding of the world — a pre-ontological understanding, which indeed can and does get along without explicit ontological insights?
(Being and Time, Section 16, p. 102)
Dasein as such is always something of this sort; along with its Being, a context of the ready-to-hand is already essentially discovered: Dasein, in so far as it is, has always submitted itself already to a ‘world’ which it encounters,and this submission belongs essentially to its Being.
(Being and Time, Section 18, pp. 120–121)
Dasein is essentially de-severant: it lets any entity be encountered close by as the entity which it is.
(Being and Time, Section 23, p. 139)
In Dasein there lies an essential tendency towards closeness.
(Being and Time, Section 23, p. 140)
Dasein is essentially de-severance-that is, it is spatial.
(Being and Time, Section 23, p. 143)
Indeed space is still one of the things that is constitutive for the world, just as Dasein’s own spatiality is essential to its basic state of Being-in-the-world.
(Being and Time, Section 24, p. 148)
Only so far as one’s own Dasein has the essential structure of Being-with, is it Dasein-with as encounterable for Others.
(Being and Time, Section 26, p. 157)
This care of averageness reveals in turn an essential tendency of Dasein which we call the “levelling down” of all possibilities of Being.
(Being and Time, Section 27, p. 165)
Authentic Being-one’s-Self does not rest upon an exceptional condition of the subject, a condition that has been detached from the “they”; it is rather an existentiell modification of the “they” — of the “they” as an essential existentiale.
(Being and Time, Section 27, p. 168)
This ‘fearfulness’ is not to be understood in an ontical sense as some factical ‘individualized’ disposition, but as an existential possibility of the essential state-of-mind of Dasein in general, though of course it is not the only one.
(Being and Time, Section 30, p. 182)
Dasein, as essentially understanding, is proximally alongside what is understood.
(Being and Time, Section 34, p. 207)
Discourse,which belongs to the essential state of Dasein’s Being and has a share in constituting Dasein’s disclosedness, has the possibility of becoming idle talk.
(Being and Time, Section 35, p. 213)
Falling reveals an essential ontological structure of Dasein itself.
(Being and Time, Section 38, p. 224)
But within-the-worldness is based upon the phenomenon of the world, which, for its part, as an essential item in the structure of Being-in-the-world, belongs to the basic constitution of Dasein.
(Being and Time, Section 43b, p. 252)
In Being-in-the-world, whose essential structures centre in disclosedness, we have found the basic state of the entity we have taken as our theme.
(Being and Time, Section 45, p. 274)
Thus, when temporality has been laid bare, there arises for the existential analytic the task of repeating our analysis of Dasein in the sense of Interpreting its essential structures with regard to their temporality.
(Being and Time, Section 61, p. 352)
Indeed, confirmation is to be found for temporality in all the essential structures of Dasein’s basic constitution.
(Being and Time, Section 66, p. 380)
Bringing-close makes possible the kind of handling and Being-busy which is ‘absorbed in the thing one is handling’; and in such bringing-close, the essential structure of care — falling — makes itself known.
(Being and Time, Section 70, p. 420)
The totality of Dasein’s existentialia comprise its ontological essence, which is ahistorical and transcultural. Not to mention that the later Heidegger referred to Dasein’s essence on many occasions. But someone might ask, “Yes, but what about how Heidegger uses the word “essence” throughout Being and Time?” Let’s take a look at what Heidegger says concerning Dasein’s essence:
That kind of Being towards which Dasein can comport itself in one way or another, and always does comport itself somehow, we call “existence” [Existenz]. And because we cannot define Dasein’s essence by citing a “what” of the kind that pertains to a subject-matter, and because its essence lies rather in the fact that in each case it has its Being to be, and has it as its own, we have chosen to designate this entity as “Dasein”, a term which is purely an expression of its Being.
(Being and Time, Section 4, p. 33)
We are to set forth the Constitution of this Being. But in so far as the essence of this entity is existence, the existential proposition, ‘Dasein is its disclosedness’, means at the same time that the Being which is an issue for this entity in its very Being is to be its ‘there’.
(Being and Time, Section 28, p. 171)
When we came to analyse this Being, we took as our clue existence, which, in anticipation, we had designated as the essence of Dasein.
(Being and Time, Section 45, p. 274)
Everydayness is precisely that Being which is ‘between’ birth and death. And if existence is definitive for Dasein’s Being and if its essence is constituted in part by potentiality-for-Being, then, as long as Dasein exists, it must in each case, as such a potentiality, not yet be something. Any entity whose Essence is made up of existence, is essentially opposed to the possibility of our getting it in our grasp as an entity which is a whole.
(Being and Time, Section 45, p. 276)
The essence of Dasein as an entity is its existence.
(Being and Time, Section 60, p. 345)
There are some passages from “Letter on Humanism” in which Heidegger discusses the meaning of the statement and why he put the word “essence” in quotation marks. They support the position I argued for. Here they are:
What man is — or, as it is called in the traditional language of metaphysics, the “essence” of man — lies in his ek-sistence. But eksistence thought in this way is not identical with the traditional concept of existentia, which means actuality in contrast to the meaning of essentia as possibility. In Being and Time (p. 42) this sentence is italicized: “The ‘essence’ of Dasein lies in its existence.” However, here the opposition between existentia and essentia is not under consideration, because neither of these metaphysical determinations of Being, let alone their relationship, is yet in question. Still less does the sentence contain a universal statement about Dasein, since the word came into fashion in the eighteenth century as a name for “object,” intending to express the metaphysical concept of the actuality of the actual. On the contrary, the sentence says: man occurs essentially in such a way that he is the “there” [das “Da”], that is, the clearing of Being. The “Being” of the Da, and only it, has the fundamental character of ek-sistence, that is, of an ecstatic inherence in the truth of Being. The ecstatic essence of man consists in ek-sistence, which is different from the metaphysically conceived existentia. Medieval philosophy conceives the latter as actualitas. Kant represents existentia as actuality in the sense of the objectivity of experience. Hegel defines existentia as the self-knowing Idea of absolute subjectivity. Nietzsche grasps existentia as the eternal recurrence of the same. Here it remains an open question whether through existentia — in these explanations of it as actuality, which at first seem quite different — the Being of a stone or even life as the Being of plants and animals is adequately thought. In any case living creatures are as they are without standing outside their Being as such and within the truth of Being, preserving in such standing the essential nature of their Being. Of all the beings that are, presumably the most difficult to think about are living creatures, because on the one hand they are in a certain way most closely akin to us, and on the other are at the same time separated from our ek-sistent essence by an abyss. However, it might also seem as though the essence of divinity is closer to us than what is so alien in other living creatures, closer, namely, in an essential distance which, however distant, is nonetheless more familiar to our ek-sistent essence than is our scarcely conceivable, abysmal bodily kinship with the beast. Such reflections cast a strange light upon the current and therefore always still premature designation of man as animal rationale. Because plants and animals are lodged in their respective environments but are never placed freely in the clearing of Being which alone is “world,” they lack language. But in being denied language they are not thereby suspended worldlessly in their environment. Still, in this word “environment” converges all that is puzzling about living creatures. In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, perhaps not even in terms of the character of signification. Language is the clearing-concealing advent of Being itself. Ek-sistence, thought in terms of ecstasis, does not coincide with existentia in either form or content. In terms of content ek-sistence means standing out into the truth of Being. Existentia (existence) means in contrast actualitas, actuality as opposed to mere possibility as Idea. Ek-sistence identifies the determination of what man is in the destiny of truth. Existentia is the name for the realization of something that is as it appears in its Idea. The sentence “Man eksists” is not an answer to the question of whether man actually is or not; rather, it responds to the question concerning man’s “essence.” We are accustomed to posing this question with equal impropriety whether we ask what man is or who he is. For in the Who? or the What? we are already on the lookout for something like a person or an object. But the personal no less than the objective misses and misconstrues the essential unfolding of ek-sistence in the history of Being. That is why the sentence cited from Being and Time (p. 42) is careful to enclose the word “essence” in quotation marks. This indicates that “essence” is now being defined from neither esse essentiae nor esse existentiae but rather from the ek-static character of Dasein. As, ek-sisting, man sustains Da-sein in that he takes the Da, the clearing of Being, into “care.” But Da-sein itself occurs essentially as “thrown.” It unfolds essentially in the throw of Being as the fateful sending.
(Basic Writings, ‘Letter on Humanism’, pp. 229–231)
If there was no essence, there could be no existence.
This is some deep stuff.
Humans enjoy not finding enjoyment, this is why we are trapped by capitalism.
We always reach for the thing we will enjoy, which we never really do, so we keep reaching.
This is because we are not just instinctual, we are in fact, unnatural.
Dan is correct here.
Humans are not simply alive, they are possessed by the strange drive to enjoy life in excess, passionately attached to a surplus which sticks out and derails the ordinary run of things.”
The human being is forever caught within the friction between the pleasure principle (pleasure) and death drive (jouissance).
We self-sabotage our joy to return to an inorganic state.
Without the lost object, the subject would lose what animates it and the source of its enjoyment. The act of self-sabotage, even though it detracts from the subject’s pleasure, enables the subject to continue to satisfy itself.
“My mother groaned, my father wept: Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud."
El Diablo wrote: We live right on the road out of town. The gas will go fast, then you have to put the pack on and hike it.
But I might stay in the front yard and get a great sun tan, not sure.
There are 3 things we can do if he nukes them. My hope is his opposition will grow and take him out and there are big cracks in the elite. He is clearly insane and this is life and death for him.
1) Sanctions and more Ukraine support, this won’t work. He will just drop more bombs and burn it all. 2) We destroy the unit and threatening units who could drop bombs. This could escalate quickly. Russia can’t match us conventionally. They seem really to only have the nuke option in direct conflict. This also warns China to back off Taiwan. 3) Gloves off, we all fight and the world moves onto the next Stone Age.
Let’s all get along.
I think it’s inevitable Russia, China, NATO/US are gonna rumble, we may enter the battlefield nuke age inevitably, but that’s gonna lead to all out war.
I think we should hit Russia and China hard, right now. We can’t trust or hope they become more loving. They won’t, they will get more aggressive. We should knock their blocks off really. That’s all they will really respond to. But we will not do this, they will get stronger and they will take some real shots at us.
These proxy wars are safer than direct conflict.
China has gone all in with Putin. Hell, maybe they offer to provide troops to fight in Ukraine as an alternative to bombs, but I doubt it. China has gone ALL IN with Russia to resist the current world Hegemony led by the US.
We keep the peace in the world to make money mostly and use that power to keep everyone in line, which keeps things relatively stable. Who wants another World War, they suck. So we can always hope greed forces people to the table. I’d bet greed will win over destroying all business possibilities. Mob bosses like things stable.
The worst case, the east decides to preemptively try to take us out and live with the fallout, literally. I don’t think they want this. China isn’t stupid. They are behind Russia and would rather them fight NATO. I hate to say it, it sucks for Ukraine, but we maybe let Putin have the land he wants and make Ukraine neutral, Elon might be right. But Ukraine will start to strike more in Russia and make it very painful for Putin, they aren’t gonna give up and I love them for that. There is too much at risk though to support Ukraine’s pride. The funny thing is, Putin knows NATO is defensive. He is using all of this to take what he wants and we just might not have a choice but to give it to him. He’s potentially capable of much worse than Hitler or Stalin combined.
Hopefully the cancer kills him.
Gotta say, one of the most based posts you've have in a while.
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