tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post6561035024232368789..comments2024-03-27T20:51:11.303-04:00Comments on Accepting Ignorance: Repair of AnattaAlrenoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-90310560997103426742022-05-20T03:36:05.315-04:002022-05-20T03:36:05.315-04:00Same thing with "ambition" and how "...Same thing with "ambition" and how "power" refers almost exclusively to political power. Rarely even to W = N * d / s. <br /><br />It used to be normal to say things like "great powers of mathematics" referring to someone whose especially good at arithmetic, but it's okay, they fixed it. Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-36347106616878288812022-05-19T23:19:41.162-04:002022-05-19T23:19:41.162-04:00Exactly!
You already knew the answer. Killing you...Exactly!<br /><br />You already knew the answer. Killing your ego to the point that nothing matters is suicide, just as you said at the start.<br /><br />Can't fix it. <br /><br />Regarding words inappropriately having two meanings - yes, this is thought and ultimately behaviour control.<br /><br />Thoughts are a behaviour.<br /><br />"I want that, I'm going to work really hard to get it! I'm MOTIVATED!!!"<br />Oh shit they might terk my jerb<br />"Oh so you ENVY what someone else has? What a sin!" etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-82773379424516178862022-05-19T04:59:57.355-04:002022-05-19T04:59:57.355-04:00Generosity that bankrupts you is ungenerous. If yo...Generosity that bankrupts you is ungenerous. If you go bankrupt you can't afford to keep giving; it's a backhand way of rebelling against a exogenous demand to be generous. On the contrary the bankrupt person is now consuming charity, leaving less for the rest of the recipients.<br /><br />Envy that creates and envy that destroys are strict opposites; that they can even be named with the same word in English is a terrible indictment of English. <br /><br />Envy that motivates is self-love, and giving face to the glorious.<br />Envy that destroys says good things are bad; it says "I can never be glorious," which is a form of self-hatred. Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-67710198226673424702022-05-18T23:05:15.542-04:002022-05-18T23:05:15.542-04:00Ah another thought crossed my mind.
You note in a...Ah another thought crossed my mind.<br /><br />You note in a previous post the peasant view on firearms as strictly negative (its just a device for killing people!). <br /><br />No nuance. <br /><br />So, to deconstruct Siddharta a little more, it's like philosophical gun-control.<br />"Stop wanting things and you'll be happy" <br /><br />Pretty close to<br /><br />"stop wanting MY things, they're mine!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-59628447172662145672022-05-18T19:13:50.074-04:002022-05-18T19:13:50.074-04:00Hmmm.
It's like everything. It can all be a v...Hmmm.<br /><br />It's like everything. It can all be a virtue or a vice; it's all a balancing act.<br /><br />Envy can be a motivation for productivity (I want what my neighbour has)<br /><br />Generosity can bankrupt.<br /><br />Social shaming can be used to shape or destroy.<br /><br />In a way, the story above is a terrible indictment on the character of the thief. He was still so attached to gaining "things" that mean nothing he was willing to take the used clothes off the masters back. They could have told it a different way; where the thief "takes" the appreciation of the moon.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-33920097071243481182022-05-18T02:22:19.808-04:002022-05-18T02:22:19.808-04:00Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of l...<i>Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal.<br /><br />Ryokan returned and caught him. “You have come a long way to visit me,” he told the prowler, “and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.”<br /><br />The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.<br /><br />Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. “Poor fellow,” he mused, “I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.”</i><br /><br />Looking at this in a positive light, yes, I too wish I could give him the beautiful moon.<br /><br />Realistically the "master" is encouraging thieves, meaning encouraging theft, which means more folk are going to be too poor to relax and realize the moon is actually nifty keen. <br /><br />As with all Communism, if you take this "virtue" seriously, everyone ends up dead. And not in the "went to nirvana" sense. Corpses don't appreciate the moon either.<br /><br />While I've extracted some neat Hinduisms from Buddhism, ultimately the latter does nothing but ugly up the place. <br /><br />"Alrenous, the but-for-real zen master, wished he/she/it could give Ryokan this beautiful honour, responsibility, and property rights." Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-52214154796312387432022-05-18T01:03:03.518-04:002022-05-18T01:03:03.518-04:00I read the quote as being, basically, a call to ni...I read the quote as being, basically, a call to nihilism.<br /><br />Let's quote Fred lazily<br /><br />"Every belief, every considering something-true is necessarily false because there is simply no true world"<br /><br />“Nihilism is . . . not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one’s shoulder to the plough; one destroys”<br /><br />Your quoted paragraph has much the same tone/ spirit as the first.<br /><br />The second quote is also accurate, too, as you point out in your first comments - it's suicide. If nothing means anything, no point being alive. <br /><br />There's no fixing it. You need a value structure or you may as well be dead.<br /><br /><br />(As an aside, I believe that Herman Hesse' intention was to write Siddharta to be a Zarathustra-esque character. )<br /><br />And so why would the buddhists make this a part of their philosophy? There's the real question.<br />What easier way to deal with NPC's who ask - why do I suffer - than to convince them that they should let go of everything? Stops them from complaining and causing a ruckus. <br /><br />Hmm... let's JBP the shit out of this one. Siddharta was a prince, probably he had responsibilities. What better way to avoid them than by adopting the philosophy of nihilism? <br /><br />Finally, sorry. Promoting nihilism is satanism. "Have no attachments so I can take everything you have".<br /><br />Example : " anatman is more accurately described as a strategy to attain non-attachment by recognizing everything as impermanent, " <br /><br />Does someone who achieve this state of being care for property rights? <br />By definition they will accept any and all abuse, since, its impermanent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com