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Tremendous book! Short but keep it together. All your ming, qing, tang, song, ding dong dynasties are covered. I forget all the dynasties and emperor names. Only remembered their eccentric shi!

Fun fact - Ghengis wiped the entire Jin dynasty on glorious slaughter basis which means pleasure of wiping enemies as a hobby. Its noted 7 outa 8 died. 8 mil decreased to 1.1 mil pop. Nice eh?? Now u better sip ur tea huh

The name China comes from a Sanskrit word Chin (pronounced “Cheeeen”) which originally was came from its long ruling Qin Dynasty.. Qin is pronounced as Chin instead of Kin in Mandarin.

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.

— David Lynch

Its almost like a absurd joke on the entire existence when someone in every while discuss things like the future of our countries or something you know on a profound scale that involves more than just a few thousand people..its absurd cause its ridiculous to change something which is remotely far away from our control. In a way such people are more pessimistic than they’ll ever know!

I originally bought this book 5 years ago for venturing into screenwriting and eventually given up the book and now it feels like i am just reading something that intuitively i know all about already..i mean what it takes to make something and not just screenplays but a dish, a marathon or a beautiful photograph but what i feel like missing entirely is the Will, spirit or something like that energy…Its bit sad

The things that we love tell us what we are.

— St. Thomas Aquinas

I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends
nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.

— Wendell Berry

Good, simple and very precise! No gimmicks.

A rational society cannot understand this man or his teachings or awakenings…rational enquiry has nothing to do with a spiritual self-enquiry. Thinking is merely a part of how the brain works in parallel without any cantered headquarter.

Nietzsche might have been one of the GOATS of thinking but these are just bunch of thoughts of that so called GENIUS MIND…i am open and humble but sorry this shit didn’t shake me anything… I stumbled to Lovely Day by Bill Weathers this morning and i exhilarated alive really..its so strange how random things hit you not decided ones..

“Reasons for consolation — When someone dies, we usually need reasons to be consoled, not to so much to soften the force of our pain, as to excuse the fact that we feel consoled so easily.”

Nietzsche is cold lmao!

Nothinngs wrong about reason and science except when its the exclusive approach to understanding life i think!…Its not much matter of which one is at edge, a scientific mind or the religious fervour, when one is fanatic enough to cloud one’s own belief system above “truth” … and one may never find the truth if we don’t even know what “the truth” is really?

Theres a difference between reading and a reader…a reader consumes, eats and chew books while reading is living..you read and live it at the same time. If it makes no real life difference then its just reading..like watching movies and listening music…its just a fkin routine…

A bible for clinically depressed ones? Why not!

It should take some time …

Nothing so far except New England vocabulary and Thoreau’s practical living experience…huge disappointed from the book but cherish the message as always

Another short chapter on “Reading” was not much of interesting to me of any sort! I keep sensing that this book maybe only good for its primal message which is “absolute simplicity and reductionism of life”so we can see it face to face in its most raw form. But mostly its full of words and sentences.

Thoreau spent all talks in this book so far which he saved for silence during living in Walden alone! LOL!

The edition that i have of this book has total 280 pages of which first chapter Economics is of 70 pages alone. I completed 1/4th on first day reading, highly unusual for my fragile impatient mind.

As this is a very anticipated book for me from years, i would conclude first 40 pages is only worthy of interest for North American readers as its their own houses history etc.

Thoreau holds a holy figure in my world

The middle part was the most irrelevant for me!

Not disappointed from book as much as my progress of reading it :(

This dude feeling like a reminder that life is short so select your books carefully…indeed sir!

Good bits so far >

Mind identification
False self (ego)
Time delusion
Past and future labelling

Bad bits >

Emotions as pain-body
Lot of other unnecessary talk.

Mostly its a book that has introduced me lot of important things to reflect about! Thats the best so far i can say on this as positive as possible.

Enjoying it!

This looks promising! One of the anticipated one for sure.

I want to read lot of books on both sides and serious ones but i think its impossible for me to become a believer ever. Nor was i ever cause i just was habitually following, reacting to what i saw from childhood around society. And i did it as long as i stayed completely limited to any other perception about this. So i think to myself now, when did i ever lost my faith? Never cause i never found one.

Weird why i bought this one! I hope i don’t get indulged in it and into real life cause i felt this subject has been too drastic for me over the last few years.