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- Jul 19, 2021
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"Everything, including love, hate and suffering needs food to continue. If suffering continues, it's because we keep feeding our suffering. Every time we speak or act without mindful awareness, we feed our suffering."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddhist perspective on suffering is that suffering is in relation to our mindless actions. When you go to the fridge and you mindlessly choose a food which is sweet and tasty in the moment but will weaken your body later, that's mindless behavior. Let's say our bodies are weak and we feel achey, if we are mindless and choose to ignore that, our bodies degenerate into complete weakness. If we strengthen it consciously, we feel better, even though it's the harder decision. I don't know if I agree with the perspective of meta awareness being in our control, since it seems as if everything in modern society is designed to drown out meta awareness and hijack our biology into doing things we really should not do. Think of mindless scrolling on social media, think of repeating others thoughts and views without thinking for yourself, among other things. Sometimes I wonder how the future will be like, after our biology is fully understood, fully gamed by outsiders.
I believe I'm hyper reflective. Not necessarily the long past (I don't think about it that much) but the present moment largely. I wonder why I do anything, all the time. If everything is a result of deterministic thought processes, what is it in that chain of deterministic processes that led me to be here? Well, I can easily answer that question, but that'd take a much longer post. Why I get hungry, why I get happy, why I get sad, the processes are there. I believe most people are only superficially aware, for example, they might feel depressed. They could blame their childhood or some long ago event, ignoring that they're sedentary, eat fast food, sleep 5 hours a night, etc. The quote does ring true to me, when I'm suffering, it's pretty clearly the ways in which I feed my own suffering.
Random ramble, how aware of your own thoughts and moods and actions would you say you are honestly?
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddhist perspective on suffering is that suffering is in relation to our mindless actions. When you go to the fridge and you mindlessly choose a food which is sweet and tasty in the moment but will weaken your body later, that's mindless behavior. Let's say our bodies are weak and we feel achey, if we are mindless and choose to ignore that, our bodies degenerate into complete weakness. If we strengthen it consciously, we feel better, even though it's the harder decision. I don't know if I agree with the perspective of meta awareness being in our control, since it seems as if everything in modern society is designed to drown out meta awareness and hijack our biology into doing things we really should not do. Think of mindless scrolling on social media, think of repeating others thoughts and views without thinking for yourself, among other things. Sometimes I wonder how the future will be like, after our biology is fully understood, fully gamed by outsiders.
I believe I'm hyper reflective. Not necessarily the long past (I don't think about it that much) but the present moment largely. I wonder why I do anything, all the time. If everything is a result of deterministic thought processes, what is it in that chain of deterministic processes that led me to be here? Well, I can easily answer that question, but that'd take a much longer post. Why I get hungry, why I get happy, why I get sad, the processes are there. I believe most people are only superficially aware, for example, they might feel depressed. They could blame their childhood or some long ago event, ignoring that they're sedentary, eat fast food, sleep 5 hours a night, etc. The quote does ring true to me, when I'm suffering, it's pretty clearly the ways in which I feed my own suffering.
Random ramble, how aware of your own thoughts and moods and actions would you say you are honestly?
