Eleatic Stranger @willtochaos@chaos.social
Seeking the good, the true, and the beautiful. Tragic optimist.
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Опустела без тебя Земля
Как мне несколько часов прожить
Также падает в садах листва
И куда все спешат такси
Только пусто на земле одной без тебя
А ты, ты летишь и тебе дарят звезды свою нежность
A positive view - Optimism
A corrective view - Optometry
A post-fucked view - Obstetrics
The problem is, of course, that my mind is pretty much a battlefield.
I need to create a shitposting account. I am containing too much of my randomness.
What if one day you turned on your computer and a gremlin came out of it and punched you?
Dysthimia (low grade, persistent depression) is a life of quiet desperation. Once the veil is removed, the world bursts with life and possibility.
That's a great moon, if you ask me. 🌒
Why did they make Phenibut illegal to sell in the UK?
That's just annoying.
The debt extends to many others, of course.
From Siddhartha and Aristotle, I received the wisdom of the middle way. From Laozi and the six patriarchs of Zen, the lesson that in the midst of emptiness there is nothing holy.
From Plato, a disposition towards the ideal. From Nietzsche and LaRochefoucauld, the antidote of realism.
From Socrates, Epicurus, and Epictetus: cheerfulness in adversity, and contentment with simple things.
I am truly blessed.
As the possibility of catastrophe looms close, I try to remember the Epicurean remedies:
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure.
To do:
1. To just sit when sitting, and do when doing.
2. To practice deliberately and consistently, without consideration for time or progress...
3. ...but also remain curious, and scan the horizon for sensual and intellectual delights.
4. To cultivate une certaine gaieté d'esprit.
5. To be more peripatetic. To digest and assemble ideas while walking.
6. To treat food as medicine, not distraction or narcotic.
7. Morality is character.
8. To keep my eyes on the distant mountain.
FOUR Productivity FEYNMAN- strategies:
i) Stop trying to know-it-all.
ii) Don't worry about what others are thinking.
iii) Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.
iv) Have a sense of humor and talk honestly.
Sat today. Five minutes of #zazen, after a long while without sitting. #dailymeds
There's an ideal, and there are several paths leading there. I must not get distracted. I must not attempt to identify myself with it, even as I attempt to incarnate it. And as I speak my being forth, it shall be none but power in repose. An economy of words, a parsimony of movement.
And with that, good night.
Приветствую тебя, пустынный уголок,
Приют спокойствия, трудов и вдохновенья,
Где льется дней моих невидимый поток
На лоне счастья и забвенья.
Я твой: я променял порочный двор цирцей,
Роскошные пиры, забавы, заблужденья
На мирный шум дубров, на тишину полей,
На праздность вольную, подругу размышленья.
-- Пушкин, "ДЕРЕВНЯ"
Idlers of the world, unite!
@eukara Solitude is when even spammers don't write you letters.
