Right, because the clearer you see a fiction, the harder it is to break free. And the more elaborate the fiction gets, the further away you are from truth.
“One of the Stonefish’s favorite disciples, Alan Watts, used to joke about our real decision making process. What we do, he said, is we sort of go through the motions of worrying for a bit until we get a vague sense we’ve made ourselves sufficiently miserable, and then we call it a day and do whatever we decided in the first two seconds.”
― Cleave the Sparrow
― Cleave the Sparrow
“The man of Tao remains unknown.
Perfect virtue produces nothing
No-Self is True-Self
And the greatest man is Nobody.” Chuang Tzu”
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
Perfect virtue produces nothing
No-Self is True-Self
And the greatest man is Nobody.” Chuang Tzu”
― Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
“Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.”
― Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
― Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
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