One of the things I find myself struggling with is the fact that you can’t always combat violence with passivity. One of the reasons for this is the obvious fact that violence can end the life of the passive, who therefore no longer has the opportunity to defend or express his position and ideas. And [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
Violence
Posted in Life, tagged morality, philosophy, reality, society on January 18, 2012 | Comments Off
Freedom Fighter
Posted in Life, tagged reality, society, truth on October 22, 2011 | Comments Off
The tools that people use against people like me are many, and they are often subtle and complex. They make you feel that you are wrong, stupid, arrogant, that you don’t get it. By the means of their conditioning—that they do not understand the way things really are—they are unable to really love, and so [...]
Fear of Being Alone
Posted in Life, tagged conditioned existence, illusion vs. reality, love, philosophy, reality, truth on August 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Though deep down it is that which we fear most, that which is contrary to everything we truly are, it never ceases to amaze me just how much effort and energy people expend to be alone. Though we go through our lives blindly reaching out for connection, for solace, safety, understanding, in the end we [...]
I am visited again by the recurring idea that I am living in a conditioned, structured, perhaps or perhaps not arbitrary, or at least particular, reality; and that this reality around me, this particular system of ideas, of the way things are, is not one into which I fit very well. I do not consider [...]
The Importance of Motivation
Posted in Life, tagged control, illusion vs. reality, life, reality, responsibility on May 13, 2011 | Comments Off
The importance of motivation—it is interesting to me the difference between doing what is right and good out of fear of punishment or hope of reward—or some other selfish motive—and, on the other hand, doing what is right and good because it is right and good. Now, those who fall into the former category are [...]
Striking Out on Your Own
Posted in Life, tagged control, courage, happiness, illusion, reality on March 19, 2011 | Comments Off
I am excited about striking out on my own, but I’m also a bit scared. Just now, the thought occurred to me that I was sort of hiding in that relationship, hiding from the world, from getting out there and being myself, of living life without fear. What was it about S, or the way [...]
Predictability of People
Posted in Life, tagged assumption, change, conditioned existence, ego-self, illusion, life, reality on February 24, 2011 | Comments Off
I find the predictability of people to be very interesting—how easily you can predict what one person will do, and how hard it is to predict what another will do. Even though, for example, we may be able to predict a co-worker’s behavior in “the office” every day—and we probably make assumptions and judgments about [...]
The Struggle Between Reality and Humanness
Posted in Life, tagged conditioning, happiness, reality, religion on February 17, 2011 | Comments Off
The other night, I was watching The Last Temptation of Christ, and (probably because of the inherent religious overtones) I was having some trouble understanding the struggle between what some people call “the spirit and the flesh.” The yearning to be divine, while at the same time being all-too-human. And I finally understood it, but [...]
