Friday, September 27, 2013
Icelandic Dharma
We are under media blackout. Iceland has staged a peaceful revolution. The Icelandic people nationalized their biggest banks, forced their whole government to resign, arrested perpetrators, banned the implicated parties, devalued their currency, and rewrote the constitution. This is the world's greatest national success story and spells the end of the War of Terror and demise of Reptilian fascism. If we were to describe this revolution, we might call it republican socialism. Critics will certainly point out the colossal failures of republican socialism (U.S.S.R) , to which I would reply the USSR was no more republican than the USA is now. the USA is not a republic but an empire, and the USSR was not a republic but an empire also. The USA is Imperial Capitalism, and the USSR was Imperial Communism. What a bummer.
I posit that a real democratic, capitalist, socialist republic would look a lot like Iceland these days.
Lets make a documentary that reveals how to transform the world. Lets document the process by which a republic holds manipulative, constitution-violating oligarchs accountable for their crimes against humanity, and - more importantly - how these republics move forward into peace, prosperity, and an age of global cooperation. I'm pretty sure that by documenting it we can popularize the theme, and viralize it, so to speak.
Because the victory of the republic over empire is equivalent to the victory of the Gaian commons over the Lords of Materialism,
victory of the laws of karma over the laws of physics, the victory of the Kingdom of Heaven over the empire of mammon, the age of Shambhala taking the place of the Kali Yuga.
Then we'll go to Uruguay and get Irie.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Inhale, exhale, rejoice, repeat
Language pits man against nature.
Preconceptual mind is nondual, yet when recognized ("re-cognized") the cognitive function must categorize, differentiate, and memorize, leading to concepts and their consequent dualities.
The nondual state may be perceived as a nonspatial state, or a nonlinguistic state, or a non-ego state. Good luck describing it, I sure can't. It is orderless, uncategorical, evolving, and empty.
The subject/object dualism inherent within linguistic syntax is recapitulated in cognitive thought. This dualism predisposes man's interpretations of sense data as bipolar phenomena with either a subjective or objective bias. I am 'in here' and nature is 'out there'. 'I' therefore necessarily exists. This is ignorance, and suffering.
The sensory phenomena is interpreted cognitively and cognition is dualistic. This means that sensory phenomena tends to be experienced by a distinct, separate 'me' which is consequently doomed to suffer a paranoid and putative existence. We believe ourselves to exist, which gets in the way of being.
Language is a map. The actual territory is inexpressible.
Dualism is the split of self into self and other, and language is syntactically dualistic. So the very act of thinking is suffering! Language itself led man's evolving thought patterns into a negative feedback loop - a closed loop - in which he was trapped, syntactically separated from his own inherent infinity by his perpetually evaluating mind.
This is the wasteland of the 20th century cogito: I think therefore I am, so my very being is trapped in the prison of my own thoughts. In order to be, we must follow the demands of our thoughts, unstable as they are. Such a perspective has nearly destroyed the world.
The modern western meditation - surfing, skiing, climbing, biking, running, paragliding, kitesurfing, skateboarding, dancing, takes man out of his thoughts into his body, suspending the dualistic, discursive, and ultimately insatiable mind. It is here man finds peace from his demons, for all thoughts beget unanswerable questions regarding assumptions behind the geometry and syntax of thinking, as well as the existence of the thinker. And if you could follow that one your head probably hurts and you need to talk a walk in the woods now.
So take a deep breath and let it out and keep doing that for the rest of your life, and pay more attention to your breathing than your thoughts, because Descartes was dead wrong and yoga scientifically proves it. Even when you are paying attention to your thoughts, pay attention to your breath even more. You will notice that better breathing leads to better thoughts. This is the revelation of somato-psychology, wherein the cogito is turned on its head: I think therefore I am is out of date.
I think because I am.
keep breathing
Preconceptual mind is nondual, yet when recognized ("re-cognized") the cognitive function must categorize, differentiate, and memorize, leading to concepts and their consequent dualities.
The nondual state may be perceived as a nonspatial state, or a nonlinguistic state, or a non-ego state. Good luck describing it, I sure can't. It is orderless, uncategorical, evolving, and empty.
The subject/object dualism inherent within linguistic syntax is recapitulated in cognitive thought. This dualism predisposes man's interpretations of sense data as bipolar phenomena with either a subjective or objective bias. I am 'in here' and nature is 'out there'. 'I' therefore necessarily exists. This is ignorance, and suffering.
The sensory phenomena is interpreted cognitively and cognition is dualistic. This means that sensory phenomena tends to be experienced by a distinct, separate 'me' which is consequently doomed to suffer a paranoid and putative existence. We believe ourselves to exist, which gets in the way of being.
Language is a map. The actual territory is inexpressible.
Dualism is the split of self into self and other, and language is syntactically dualistic. So the very act of thinking is suffering! Language itself led man's evolving thought patterns into a negative feedback loop - a closed loop - in which he was trapped, syntactically separated from his own inherent infinity by his perpetually evaluating mind.
This is the wasteland of the 20th century cogito: I think therefore I am, so my very being is trapped in the prison of my own thoughts. In order to be, we must follow the demands of our thoughts, unstable as they are. Such a perspective has nearly destroyed the world.
The modern western meditation - surfing, skiing, climbing, biking, running, paragliding, kitesurfing, skateboarding, dancing, takes man out of his thoughts into his body, suspending the dualistic, discursive, and ultimately insatiable mind. It is here man finds peace from his demons, for all thoughts beget unanswerable questions regarding assumptions behind the geometry and syntax of thinking, as well as the existence of the thinker. And if you could follow that one your head probably hurts and you need to talk a walk in the woods now.
So take a deep breath and let it out and keep doing that for the rest of your life, and pay more attention to your breathing than your thoughts, because Descartes was dead wrong and yoga scientifically proves it. Even when you are paying attention to your thoughts, pay attention to your breath even more. You will notice that better breathing leads to better thoughts. This is the revelation of somato-psychology, wherein the cogito is turned on its head: I think therefore I am is out of date.
I think because I am.
keep breathing
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