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sounds like straightforward typical minding to me 🤔 philosophers do this kind of thing a lot too

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

the more manic i am the earlier i naturally want to wake up and the more i look forward to all the things i could do while awake so maybe the dude is depressed 🤔

Sasha Chapin

@sashachapin

but a meditation guy who knows a bunch of jhanas could never be depressed, what are you talking about ... idk if he's depressed, maybe he just really likes unconsciousness, whatever makes you happy my guy, but it's just weird to me??????

I think the idea that the world is inherently worthless is pretty baked in to parts of the renunciative Buddhist traditions too

like I was reading a jhana book that

@nickcammarata

casually recommended... agree with it all except "nothing WORTH hanging on to" or "ultimately unsatisfactory"

it's like maybe I'm just not my most enlightened incarnation but I'm team samsara all the way slap me back into the cycle baby it's all good already, in fact too good to comprehend, too good to fit into our puny concepts

Sasha Chapin

@sashachapin

for me letting go of sensations makes them way more satisfactory, when i'm listening to music without discursive distance it's almost too good, painfully good, sure it doesn't relieve all the discomforts of existence but like..... do i need to do that??? is it desirable?

I hope it's not desirable

Sasha Chapin

@sashachapin