"prompting the “self” to seek satisfaction through actions driven by “craving” " - this struck a chord. The optimiser is usually miserable as he is changng things to consistently re-align with his world view.
"Living in proliferation means living amid rigid concepts, suffering when categories clash with experience or are overgeneralized." - so the alternative "against the grain" is to notice, understand and endure instead of notice, feel dis-satisfaction, optimise?
So you view things as a person in a boat experiencing waves rather than a person in a car correcting course constantly? Did I interpert that right?
Nice. Did not know those two terms. They contrast as metaphor with our "go with the flow" and "against the current", where "go with the flow" equates with less suffering, greater ease. Yet with the direction of hair in the original here, stroking to raise the hair can feel better, or at least as good, as stroking in the direction it lies.
I really enjoyed this! I finished and published my Substack on the self yesterday. I wanted to write more about the self in Buddhism and Anattā. but I think this needs to be a whole other post. And I don’t know that much about it yet, so reading this was helpful.
"prompting the “self” to seek satisfaction through actions driven by “craving” " - this struck a chord. The optimiser is usually miserable as he is changng things to consistently re-align with his world view.
"Living in proliferation means living amid rigid concepts, suffering when categories clash with experience or are overgeneralized." - so the alternative "against the grain" is to notice, understand and endure instead of notice, feel dis-satisfaction, optimise?
So you view things as a person in a boat experiencing waves rather than a person in a car correcting course constantly? Did I interpert that right?
Nice. Did not know those two terms. They contrast as metaphor with our "go with the flow" and "against the current", where "go with the flow" equates with less suffering, greater ease. Yet with the direction of hair in the original here, stroking to raise the hair can feel better, or at least as good, as stroking in the direction it lies.
I really enjoyed this! I finished and published my Substack on the self yesterday. I wanted to write more about the self in Buddhism and Anattā. but I think this needs to be a whole other post. And I don’t know that much about it yet, so reading this was helpful.
So glad the time in Canada has been successful!