Reduction of hunger. No feeling of guilt after over-eating anyway. Sunny.
Finished reading Carnegie's book yesterday night. He is an hypocrite. In the past I was forcing mysef to accept this notion that I have to do the "right" thing and be myself in the mean time - a seeming impossibility - that is that I have to change "myself" to take the shape needed to obtain the results "I" want. Bullshit. There is no right thing to do and I don't exist. So what's these farts coming out of Carnegie's mouth? If you want to sell a truckload of shit to this guy, be GENUINELY interested in him. Oh, wow, how can that be?
Long discussion on Facebook about the existence of a friend of mine. Not really a close friend, luckily. After a couple of hours and starting a fb group to discuss the topic (I created the group and made him admin) he shut down the group without warning. Maybe he will come back.
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martedì 19 giugno 2012
domenica 17 giugno 2012
Spiders
I was sitting at my place. There was a spider. I wondered if it were alive or not, sitting on his web.
So I blew on it. It moved. It was alive. Then it dawned on me: it reacted. It would have been just a different reaction if it would have sat there motionless, dead. Death and life are no different, there is no real distinction between the two. And I am like the spider.
Today I was driving. The road went trough the woods. I was thinking abut justice and guilt. There is actually no right and no wrong, no one is ever guilty because no one is. This does not mean and end to laws, jails, the police, holy wars and so on. All these things can exist even withouth selves. This means that there is no basis for theories about good and evil, and no need for feelings of guilt and of shame. This does not mean that those feelings cannot arise anymore and condition life. They can. They did and they can arise again. But that does not change the fact that they are empty. There is no need for building and keeping a moral code and for practicing what you preach. Or, as happens more often, for preaching what you practice.
So yes, you are free to preach online about balls and fearless approaches and you are free to hide behind a newspaper in the bus instead of approaching. Can you do anything about that anyway? Could the spider not move when stimulated? Of course this does not mean you need to drop all self-improvement efforts, but only that "self improvement" is a misnomer in the first place. There will still be thoughts about improving your abs, jogging, goign to the gym. And that's ok. You can still feel like you are taking control of your life. But that's simply a feeling. Like all other feelings.
So I blew on it. It moved. It was alive. Then it dawned on me: it reacted. It would have been just a different reaction if it would have sat there motionless, dead. Death and life are no different, there is no real distinction between the two. And I am like the spider.
Today I was driving. The road went trough the woods. I was thinking abut justice and guilt. There is actually no right and no wrong, no one is ever guilty because no one is. This does not mean and end to laws, jails, the police, holy wars and so on. All these things can exist even withouth selves. This means that there is no basis for theories about good and evil, and no need for feelings of guilt and of shame. This does not mean that those feelings cannot arise anymore and condition life. They can. They did and they can arise again. But that does not change the fact that they are empty. There is no need for building and keeping a moral code and for practicing what you preach. Or, as happens more often, for preaching what you practice.
So yes, you are free to preach online about balls and fearless approaches and you are free to hide behind a newspaper in the bus instead of approaching. Can you do anything about that anyway? Could the spider not move when stimulated? Of course this does not mean you need to drop all self-improvement efforts, but only that "self improvement" is a misnomer in the first place. There will still be thoughts about improving your abs, jogging, goign to the gym. And that's ok. You can still feel like you are taking control of your life. But that's simply a feeling. Like all other feelings.
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