Your post used the words, and therefore labels, of duality; 'We' and 'I' create opposite polarities, yes? The Tao-hsin quote replied in like mind!
Psychological and emotional pain-suffering is a knot you tie yourself up in. But that's OK, it's all fine as it is....and when you no longer need to learn through pain and suffering, well, then you'll stop playing that game.
Usually when we get addicted to something, it is because that thing affords us some pleasure (even if the pleasure is only short-term and followed by pain). What sort of pleasure does pain give us?
Actually, I did not mean that as a rhetorical question, but I could think of a Schopenhauerian line of thought by which pain--experiencing it and thinking about it--affords us the pleasure of contemplating the world-as-will, much the same way as experiencing and thinking about music does (since music is a mirror of the world-as-will).
The loss of pleasure in an object causes the person to want more to fill that loss. It is a vicous circle. I'd rather watch nature do its own thing effortlessly.
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The fourth Chinese Ch’an Patriarch, Tao-hsin (580-651), stated: “The wise man does nothing, while the fool is always tying himself up.” :-)
Who gives the label of fool or wise man? Certainly not I.
...that's another interesting knot... how best to untie it? ;-)
There is no 'I', except when thinking makes it so!
Your post used the words, and therefore labels, of duality; 'We' and 'I' create opposite polarities, yes? The Tao-hsin quote replied in like mind!
Psychological and emotional pain-suffering is a knot you tie yourself up in. But that's OK, it's all fine as it is....and when you no longer need to learn through pain and suffering, well, then you'll stop playing that game.
Usually when we get addicted to something, it is because that thing affords us some pleasure (even if the pleasure is only short-term and followed by pain). What sort of pleasure does pain give us?
Actually, I did not mean that as a rhetorical question, but I could think of a Schopenhauerian line of thought by which pain--experiencing it and thinking about it--affords us the pleasure of contemplating the world-as-will, much the same way as experiencing and thinking about music does (since music is a mirror of the world-as-will).
The loss of pleasure in an object causes the person to want more to fill that loss. It is a vicous circle. I'd rather watch nature do its own thing effortlessly.
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