@JoshWComeau The new platforms feel pure. a fresh escape from insanity. But, like moths to flame, we crave the thrill, and inevitably, we’re pulled back to that glorious chaos. The honeymoon phase will be overshadowed by the dumpster fire that is X
Quote I’m pondering: "From the moment they wake they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue." - Tom Cruise's character in The Last Samurai
The secret is that “other” eventually turns out to be you. I mean, that’s the element of surprise in life: when suddenly you find the thing most alien. We say now: what is most alien to us? Go out at night and look at the stars, and realize that they are millions and millions and billions of miles away. Vast conflagrations out in space. And you can lie back and look at that. Whew! Say, “Well! Surely I hardly matter. I’m just a tiny, tiny little peekaboo on this weird spot of dust called Earth. And all that going on out there. Billions of years before I was born. Billions of years after I will die.” And nothing seems stranger to you than that, more different from you. But there comes a point (if you watch long enough) when you’ll say, “Why, that’s me!” It’s the “other” that is the condition of your being yourself, as the back is the condition of being the front. And when you know that, you know you never die.
It is not the ‘I am’ that is false, but what you take yourself to be. I can see, beyond the least shadow of doubt, that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Logic or no logic, you cannot deny the obvious. You are nothing that you are conscious of.
@JoshWComeau@fractal161 I saw a StarCraft match recently where one player fell behind in an intense battle. He ended up winning saying he just focused on enjoying himself and calming his mind. Active zen for maximum competitive ability!
All that a Guru can tell you is: ‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you think yourself to be.’ Trust nobody, not even yourself. Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth.
"How do you let go of attachments to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them." - Eckhart Tolle
"The most important part of your journey is the step you're taking at this moment. And that's something to continuously realize and practice, because that's all there ever is." —Eckhart Tolle