This is the good stuff I got out of Zen Buddhism. It's also in qi gong with the idea of circular movements.
The true peace is in accepting the chaos.
To stop your thoughts let them happen and watch/feel them, like you did the gnats. Eventually they change and the exercise changes. It builds a steady calm among chaos, instead of what pharma and major religions do- claim a safe space against chaos by assuming there's an afterlife you must invest in.
Chaos is why nature can't be controlled and why it persists.
Same with the body.
BTW, one health thing that helped me a lot was castor oil. On the skin it helps speed healing of wounds. Why? Because as a solvent (chaos energy to break down) of fat soluble molecules, it helps the body mobilize those things easier.
Loved this piece. It chimes with my thinking on both how our traditional ideas on evolution and on learning are so out of step with reality. In the case of evolution with the Cambrian explosion; in the case of learning, the collective unconscious and how children grasp, seemingly untaught, new technology.
Thank you! Re children, also how they learn language from mothers. AI robot wouldnt be able to replicate that because they are unable to replicate a natural form of deterministic unpredictability..
Good point. For me this whole idea fits well with the animistic beliefs of most non-civilised peoples.. It certainly seems to me far easier to see the universe as springing from, and fundamentally made OF consciousness which at a stroke solves canards like the 'hard problem' of consciousness.
This is the good stuff I got out of Zen Buddhism. It's also in qi gong with the idea of circular movements.
The true peace is in accepting the chaos.
To stop your thoughts let them happen and watch/feel them, like you did the gnats. Eventually they change and the exercise changes. It builds a steady calm among chaos, instead of what pharma and major religions do- claim a safe space against chaos by assuming there's an afterlife you must invest in.
Chaos is why nature can't be controlled and why it persists.
Same with the body.
BTW, one health thing that helped me a lot was castor oil. On the skin it helps speed healing of wounds. Why? Because as a solvent (chaos energy to break down) of fat soluble molecules, it helps the body mobilize those things easier.
Loved this piece. It chimes with my thinking on both how our traditional ideas on evolution and on learning are so out of step with reality. In the case of evolution with the Cambrian explosion; in the case of learning, the collective unconscious and how children grasp, seemingly untaught, new technology.
Thank you! Re children, also how they learn language from mothers. AI robot wouldnt be able to replicate that because they are unable to replicate a natural form of deterministic unpredictability..
Good point. For me this whole idea fits well with the animistic beliefs of most non-civilised peoples.. It certainly seems to me far easier to see the universe as springing from, and fundamentally made OF consciousness which at a stroke solves canards like the 'hard problem' of consciousness.