by Tyler K | Jun 21, 2020 | Sapiens, What should our species be striving towards
“I personally think we should stop striving. For what? Where are we trying to go? For what reason? To what end? Where is that taking us? The hustle and bustle of striving i feel is what created our fast paced consumeristic culture. The idea that we should always be striving to improve ourselves and the world is a direct statement that we don’t trust the natural world and we think there is some inherent flaw in it that we must take action to make it livable for us, as if nature doesn’t and isn’t already doing that. subconsciously applying this delusional view about the world to our experience then actions extracts all the mystifying beauty and the divinity that is the sacred worlds eminence of everything that is. I believe that is why we are seeing the problems we alone created today from an over emphasization of needing to improve nature and our experience when it doesn’t need it.
Striving is exhausting, distracting from nature, and I personally don’t want to sell my spirit to the conviction of constantly being in strain to always be going to the next objective, then the next, never without stopping to smell the sweet roses of life? What have we produced while striving other than strained faces, working at paces and periods of times that would exhaust a bull. We are crystalized in our demanding activity. Unable to smell lifes sweeter smell and to see all the other present aspects of nature. For what? To do it again, and repeat this strain? For if life were truly just tireless painful work, what is the point of living if there isn’t any type of enjoyment there? What makes life worth living? This is something we should investigate in ourselves. We never have time to see the world for how it truly is because we are so distracted by these “goals”, of not only bettering the world but also with bettering ourselves. What a worthy excuse for a distraction. hah! It distracts us from what we know subconsciously in ourselves, what we really should do right here, right now: What we avoid and don’t face in ourselves..
Our own dissatisfaction with nature, our life, our place in it and our choice to feel this way about it. When dissatisfied, we desire to be somewhere else, and to get there we strive. Not saying all striving is bad, but it shouldn’t be on our daily plates, it should be in the medicine cabinet when the time is truly needed. Conclusion: i believe we arrived at this need to change nature and ourselves because of our faulty underlying view on the reality of nature. So that naturally produced the symptoms we see wrong with the world today. Big factories pumping fumes out, piles of garbage, garbage in the ocean. This came from striving. Everyones striving for something. And that faulty view is that natural reality needs improving, is what got us here in the first place. So i wont use the word “strive” i will say “focus”.
So if i were to say one thing we should focus on, is our underlying world beliefs coming from yourself, no one excluded, because that orients our perspectives on how we see the world, and what it means to us and from that how we act towards it. Not only does it influence how we engage and affect the world, but also how you affect yourself internally, and that is the quality of your experience of life which branches out into the actions that affect the world to what it is now. When our inner views are oriented in accordance with nature our actions will naturally be aimed towards regenerative and sustainable practices. Which leads me to my second more practical answer. A constant aim towards becoming 100% sustainable in everyway, and striving is not sustainable.”
by Tyler K | Jun 21, 2020 | Sapiens, What is happiness
“If you are talking about temporary happiness, it arises out of the context of knowing what the opposite feels like. Sadness gives meaning to happiness because they are connected and on the same plane. We ‘want’ to be happy not sad. That is how you know they are opposites. Some things make you happy and some things make you sad. These are usually external events that trigger an inner reflection in you. You are more at the mercy of your inner workings than external stimuli because the external world doesn’t move you nearly as much as your mind does. It is your inner workings that move you and present you your feelings of experience which is what you act upon. This is what you are most truly intimate with.
Given the context of the rest of these questions, I assume you mean the lasting true wholesome happiness? I’m not sure if it exists yet, though I have found it a worthy thing to prod at to find its potentiality. I have a theory that it’s more of a balanced contentment with life. Contentment is the state of non-desire (an oriented perspective or operating state that which has abandoned all control of trying to ascertain pleasure and reject pain) an immediate association of grace with whatever may come in the present natural reality. In contentment, you don’t wish a thing to be different, rather a gratitude for how things are, especially in adversity. For in the state of desire, you subconsciously declare the natural reality of existence is not good enough and is inherently naturally flawed, and your naturally flawed being (a part of nature) is somehow supposed to fix this crucial and urgent flaw of nature as if the entirety of existence depends on it, when it doesn’t at all.
If existence were possible to be extinguished it would have been already, yet here we are, Now genocice, oppression, limiting of natural rights, that may be a worthy desire to have to fix and bear because the alternative is to let the suffering of other self experiencers happen when you know all too well that it is me suffering. Let us only use desire like medicine in the cabinet. When we truly need it. The state of desire is never content. It is the state of wanting, longing, the state of not enough. The state of lacking fulfillment. If you don’t desire there is no problem. There is no wanting. No reason to distract yourself. You could say wanting started the problem. Why want? If I am thirsty I just go get the glass of water and that’s that. I don’t sit around desiring about it, I just go get it and don’t even think about it. This long term contentment without desire, is the happiness i think you’re asking about.
Like i’ve stated previously i don’t currently necessarily believe in an eternal bliss state, i feel even feelings need to waver like the sea and light. It takes conditioning of practice to find for yourself what is the end of desire. What end does it meet? What goal does it accomplish? What does it mean to indulge and desire and repeat. What does it do for you and others? Are you content with yourself and your decisions? Contentment actually i feel would be our normal state if not overstimulated by our minds needs and wants pulling us in all sorts of directions. Our culture naturally creates the brain structure to form in this way, if you always get more, you’ll begin to expect more.
So stop all this incessant trying and just be with and dig what is without wanting it because wanting it does nothing but put you in an unsatisfactory state of experience. The alternative to really getting with life and being grateful for it is to turn away from what is and to resent it. You can see obviously which one sounds like the better life to live.”
by Tyler K | Jun 20, 2020 | Sapiens, What happens when we die
“There is no heaven or hell, or spiritual plane, or even eternal void you go to when you die. Just an infinitude of an inevitable conscious experience of self-worlds. Eternal hell could never exist, nor eternal heaven. Nothing ever remains in the same place forever. The experiencing world NEEDS contrast. If the up line means you’re happy and the down line means you’re sad then If you were always going up you wouldn’t have anything to relate to happiness to give it its meaning of happiness. No down line to know what up is or what it means at all, it wouldn’t be happiness anymore. You only know you’re happy because you’ve been sad. Everything is bound to change and it would need to be naturally.
This is the part we often refuse to accept in my opinion. We want imperturbable happiness and can’t get it and wonder why. You can’t stare at just one color and see difference, you need the contrast of other colors. So how could these spirits just self experience in one place (heaven or hell) never moving from that place/ state with no contrast for eternity? Seeing only one color is equal to experiencing void. If you only saw all white (heaven (eternal bliss)) or all black (hell (eternal suffering)) there would be absolutely nothing to see. We lose touch with what it means to be happy because sadness gives happiness its meaning and purpose. Without sadness how could we know the value of happiness? And vice versa. We are truly only able to see and feel by contrast and change.
This belief of heaven and hell is founded on the idea that God created these beings under these circumstances (as if God had no influence or connection to the situation at all… yet he/shes god theirself) and made it up to god’s subjects to decide, putting the decision on Gods subjects, fully knowing of their sinful nature as he created them that way and if they failed which is likely since god made them sinful, they deserve to suffer eternally in hell? What kind of God would we be worshipping then? God would be too intelligent to create sinful beings just to command them to worship and be like his ONLY unattainably divinely perfect son god has EVER had (disowning the rest of existence as gods children) and condemning the beings God made in sinful nature for not acting in divine ways like his son when god theirself created them in that way. That makes absolutely no sense if god is supposed to be all knowing and of the highest intelligence?
I don’t see God as watching from the sidelines in the void saying to itself “ooo lets see what that guy’ll do” at the ready to deliver divine justice. Hah no. I see God tilling the fields personally. I see god blowing the breeze. I see god on the frontlines AS nature. That is why I do not believe in a heaven and hell beyond your present state of experience. So I really can’t get with this idea. Because I’ve felt so much from personal experience that contrasts christianities primal belief that God is seperate from you. God would never create a situation where there is eternal suffering, because God/Nature is the one experiencing it. Who else other than god/nature could actually experience it? There’s noone-nothing else here? So what you truly are is the primordial source of any arisal. The inextinguishable. I believe our experience may blend into the next, moving on from one painting to the next. Not that your experience is now lost in void. There is nothing to be experienced in the void. It’s impossible to not experience anything, even if you’re not conscious of yourself as yourself. But since there are countless self experiencers being born into the world in every moment, it’s unnecessary to worry about losing self experience to the void, for you are self experiencing now aren’t you? And the same self that sits in you sits in all self experiencers.
Self /god/nature is at the center of everything. So when you die I feel the individual you simply dies, or fades from experience. Though you can’t experience void of experience. So inevitably there is evercoming self experience. However it happens though I am not sure. Too many unclear variables from my limited relative perspective. On the premise that happening-consciousness are universal constants,,I feel it’s more like this: Red has its place as a color in the spectrum of colors. Although it shows its unique characteristics to the world it still blends back into the spectrum of everything from before its birth and after its end. Yet between its beginning and end, it colors and lights the world with its particular brush stroke, (your conscious experience-expression). Just because there isn’t red in a painting, doesn’t mean red is dead. It’s just not being experienced right now, but this blue painting is! My main point is you can’t experience non-void, and you can’t experience the same feeling/experience (heaven or hell) forever. The only thing that’s left standing is an inevitability of experience.”
by Tyler K | Jun 20, 2020 | Sapiens, What separates humans from other life forms
“Other than naturally contrasting unique characteristics, any separating identifying belief. All organisms act out of their own need and have unique qualities and characteristics. Because we’re all different, that fact makes us the same. We are all equally alive in this world. You could say we are different because of our massive needs and desires vs other organisms who live simple unharmful lifestyles towards the environment. One unique characteristic i can name about humans vs others is no other organism has enslaved races or species of animals to work for them like we have. No other organism has made such a massive harmful impact on the ecosystem. But whos to say if kangaroos became the dominant species they would most likely do the same thing. Not realizing their affection until it starts causing bigger problems.”
by Tyler K | Jun 20, 2020 | Sapiens, Who / what are we
“We are the process of ever being nature. Some say we are just bodies seeing through nerve ends sent to be processed by the mind. Or others say we are just the eternal consciousness of self or maybe spirit. None of those are wrong, it’s just when you say it’s one way, you also say it’s not the other way. I feel Nature is a blend of all aspects in things, not one more needed but all integral parts for the fruition of existence. Being affects consciousness and vice versa. And the body is spirit, a part of the natural expression of the naturally occurring world. We think spirit is just in our chest or in or expressions or intentions, or in some spiritual plane beyond? It’s everywhere you look in my opinion. The natural world is the spiritual plane and you could say God or the Universal self is expressing itself with its spirit and we naturally are that and take part in that.
I say nature/natural because it doesn’t have any special associations with it and it is ‘what is’ in the natural world, unlike god, how it subconsciously infers some separate entity somewhere beyond pulling all the strings. Whatever is the true nature, left right up down, it is always itself and could never be disconnected with that selfness. For how could anything ever not be natural whether it is ourselves or god or anything. This world is functioning successfully without us trying to make it so. We just sort of inevitably find ourselves here, awake, and alive, but in this simple process the world is lit up by natural being. Because It is inevitable to experience in a universe with being-happening in it. The only other alternative is void, which is the void of experience itself which wouldn’t be an experience at all.
This question is one of the hardest questions to answer because I feel it is paradoxical, because it’s asking for a true description of who/what we are which is nature- everything by attempting to dissect nature into different parts when it’s not separate and we could never truly dissect it. We use it as tools for communicative purposes. To say it’s one way is to say it’s not the other way but nature is all possible ways in whatever way it does and could happen. And also I can’t tell you who or what I am unless there’s something different I can compare it to. Now if you’re asking my identity I can easily tell you that. Because those are our unique qualities. But the underlying essence of who we are is a constant in everything, so how can i begin to describe that? We are a combination of both of those things. Though still, there is nothing else to compare it to in order to serve you an edible dish of information. Because it is everything. The fundamental being that cannot be destroyed. If it were possible to extinguish the universe forever it would have already happened and we wouldn’t be here now.
If i were to simply answer i could answer it in 3 ways equally. I would answer, i am, because that answers the question not with words, but with natural unowned undefined, being as its own description. Isness, amness, thusness. I know its sort of a cliche answer but i feel it actually does a good job at pointing at the moon. It requires your genuine inquiry to find the answer in yourself. Or Source, the indestructible essence that underlies, sustains, and is everything. Lastly Nature, because it is the natural word, in natural processes that we find ourselves. Existence – non existence could never not be natural. No-thing could not be natural. Everything – nothing is inevitably natural. I am the natural world. Identity truly is not limited by boundaries of skin. Because all is inevitably self.
by Vesela M | May 31, 2020 | Sapiens, What happens when we die
“The process of dying has been explained in detail by many indigenous tribes and ancient sciences. I have chosen to read and study Tibetan Buddhism, Vedic Teachings, and Tantric Practices. This is an attempt to present, in short, my understanding of the process of dying and rebirth according to the teachings I mentioned above. If you want to read more, I highly recommend the Tibetan book of living and dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. The human organism is sustained by 5 elements-earth, water, fire, air and space. Once we die, the elements dissolve into the macro universe. Together, with the elements, in specific order the ego, intellect, conceptual mind disintegrate as well-stripping everything away from us-senses, emotions, feelings, rational thinking until nothing else remains but our true nature/consciousness/soul/ higher-self/spirit-whatever you need to call it.
This is where the practice of meditation can help one remain connected to the source and not get lost in the many layers of illusion that the dying mind will create. Without the familiar physicality, the mind is very powerful. As each thought can easily become reality, every irritation or bad habit, or fear can send the dying person into a helpless and scary spiral of load sounds, colors and hallucinations. If you lose connection with your true essence and give in to the projections of the mind you will be reborn back to the cycle of samsara. You will have many many opportunities presented during the process of dying to escape the cycle of life and death. That’s why the moment of death is considered to be extremely important. We can even, suggest that we live to prepare to die.”
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