Atoms Dancing
They are as confused as we are
jofo, you know what I love about the Stoics, they held there was only One Truth and they cast all belifs aside. They laid out their metaphysics, but they teach us how to think so that Truth is self evident.
Truth isn’t true if we can’t perceive it within ourselves.
Dan is so right on, we can embrace self-transcendence.
What constitutes self-transcendence?
Life is struggle. Life is struggle cloaked as a game.
The following was provided to me...
Throughout that game, we encounter different players that try to tear our inner world apart while we battle to establish balance. For balance seems to be, according to our senses, the state we seek, the state we demand, the state we desire.
Peace in another word.
Balance will always be the end goal for humankind.
It is a long and perilous journey that oscillates between chaos and boredom, but it seems that we are on the right track to reach that state.
From my position of openness, or as a materialist/atomist or on a spiritual path, you can find self-transcendence.
So who is right, no one, no one needs be right, with clarity and clear thinking, The Truth is self evident as it must be.
This desire of self transcendence is the driving force of Humanity it seems, material or spiritual.
This desire is behind the surge of gurus today and Eckart Tolle.
This is the journey of the ego to transcend the body I’m describing. The need for every human that walks this planet to escape the fragility of this existence and become a higher consciousness being, will never fall out of fashion because it is inextricably bound to the core of our paradigm.
To improve ourselves and environment to meet our needs.
Philosophers, thinkers, spiritual leaders and every agent that strives to add another brick in the wall of self-transcendence is at the epicenter of this truism.
That’s why we follow them, that’s why we admire them, that’s why we listen to them. This is no joke. This is one of the biggest truths that you will ever encounter and one you should examine with enormous care.
What constitutes moronic and weak views?
The ultimate virtue of a person is their ability to speak the truth. The truth mainly about themselves, but also in a broader sense, the moral truth, and the scientific truth.
Morality and science are two terms that have been flirting dangerously with each other since the beginning of the scientific revolution (circa late 1500s), but never really succeeded in merging or evolving together.
There are instances of hope throughout history which indicate that we will eventually find a way to create a universal moral framework free from religion, that draws depth from scientific facts, but this framework is still in the making and it will probably take monumental events in order to be formulated.
We are all humans and our capacity to understand right from wrong, and moral from immoral, is expressed by our ability to seek cooperation and justice from a very young age, mainly through play.
This “gift,” so to speak, allows us to build variations of play as we grow older and the rules embedded in the various “games” we create help us create a version of reality that is more manageable and more relevant to our needs.
The rules are fluid, but there are rules to learn.
Since the ancient times, people have been facing the ramifications of that situation and have been trying to come up with solutions to this daunting conundrum. Usually, a head on approach would result in friction and would create even more tension to the already capricious nature of our relationships. So, the wisest among us realized our limitations and proposed philosophies that would allow the thinking human to discover an intellectual solace.
One of these philosophies is stoicism.
It is a philosophy so potent that it has withstood the test of time and it has, of late, become one of the most pertinent antidotes to the lack of control we experience while we attempt to enhance most aspects of our lives.
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage” — Seneca
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
— Seneca
Ah, I’ve explained and said too much, but we must explain it to the extent we can, and then let fate take the rest. But man, listen to Epictetus.
I have to say, I have found Stoicism more powerful and profound than most ideas on Earth.
You have better, show us, please.
“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”
“Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person’s own life.”
— Epictetus
I perceive the truth in all the lies of Humanity.
Marcus was a pragmatic optimist, like Dan.
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
Here is my formula for life now, Stoicism and virtues to guide the mind and Zen/Existentialism speaks to the spirit and unknowable.
Http://www.quantumunderground.com
This is the site where I documented my awakening.
Interesting to take a tour around the occult world.
Http://www.thetrippingfool.com and http://www.thesmellygoat.org is where I’ll document the next chapter of my life on Stoicism and Existentialism.
Will the world still be around?
I’m joining my voice with a rising song on Earth.
Do you hear it?
Peace.
Do better than me.
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