Wednesday, March 26, 2008

cool dudes

  • The mind is off on a thought train.
  • So?
  • So I will reign it in and come back to the stillness.
  • Why bother?
  • Because being human, there is not much time to get things figured out.
  • What kind of things?
  • Things other than pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain.
  • There is an alternative?
  • So they say?
  • Who are they?
  • The meditators?
  • So who are they?
  • Folk who pay attention to what goes on in their heads.
  • Doesn't everybody do that?
  • Everybody pays attention to stuff but only a few pay attention to attention itself.
  • Sounds like 'introspection'?
  • Something like that: thinking about thinking. Or perhaps better: being aware of what you are aware of.
  • So what good does that do?
  • It induces an altered state of consciousness
  • So what alters?
  • Your approach to being in the world
  • How is it different?
  • You become less selfish and more understanding of what other people are going through
  • So what are other people going through?
  • Life as a consumer in modern civilisation
  • What is wrong with that?
  • It involves grasping after the 'desirables' and trying to avoid the 'undesirables'
  • Duh! Yeh! There is an option?
  • Yup!
  • Like what?
  • Like realising that it is the 'I' that craves and that the 'I' is an illusion
  • How does that help?
  • No 'I' = no craving = release from the knee jerk reaction to fads and fashions = being a cool dude who passes easily through everything
  • Sounds bland and boring
  • Yup but those who get there don't see it like that. Those who get out of the rat race find bliss. A peaceful, easy feeling
  • OK for some.
  • Yup
  • Strokes for folks?
  • Yup

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