A strong ego can fight the pain body and have less losses. The hyper-competitive are those who are have fewer losses and many wins precisely because a childhood loss looms so largely in their subconscious..
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But it should be tempered by the distance neighbors keep in order to keep on being good neighbors.
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Once the 'house' rule mechanism is identified any game can be unwound and a new one begun even if it takes time. Seeing that reality is nothing/death/consciousness is the way to recognize that everything is a game and that every rule can be changed.
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When you see how your 'game' is actually killing people.. that's when you stop.
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Imagine a fight you had with a colleague, some string is increasingly aggressive passive aggressive slights. Now imagine their entire family is dying from COVID. See how quickly your anger drops. See how quickly you recognize your pettiness.
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That's how quickly a real reminder of death sharpens your senses and stirs you from ego's grasp.
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The death signal has started ... Will it reach those who need to hear it in time? It will. Either they will hear from the signal itself. Or from the angry armed mob delivering the message.
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But in the case of the latter... they will not be able to act on their new found information. And the angry mob that is now executive leadership? They now have the privilege of realizing just how difficult game design is.
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I'd venture to say that this "Neighbors" problem is the key to world peace. Being able to have a close relationship with all your colleagues means you have the skill to solve world peace.
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Most of us keep distance through protocols. We're good neighbors only because we keep distance. At large companies everyone maintains this ritualized distance.
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At startups you have the potential for more intimacy but more than likely it's a cesspool of suppressed negative emotions. If it feels 'right', it feels like a 'family'... and happy families are so hard to form...
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Recognizing that your family relationship is shit (most families are) is the first step to finding a real family sense. If you're stuck thinking your family relationships had no issues you end up aspiring to a past image thus rebirthing old neurosis'
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E.g. the girl who goes through terrible boyfriend after boyfriend while her friends can obviously see that's she is going after the same type over and over again.
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Realizing that what you're looking for isn't an experience you've actually experienced gives you the 'beginner's mind' to recognize what it is when it occurs.
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How do you know you've felt love for example? How do you know you've never felt love? How can you be sure? (You can't)
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This Infinite Question Mark (God) is what keeps our eyes filled with wonder rather than shadow.
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The optimist goes "Love is real, it's all around us." is just as unbelievable as the pessimist who goes "There's no such things as love." Both are absolute stances towards something that by definition cannot be absolute.
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Depression is a feeling that you'll experience your life in circles. That nothing 'new' can every come into your life. Cutting yourself introduces something 'new', a new negative experience. As does creating something new.
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The tortured depressed artist is tortured because their stuck in their own minds going in circles. Getting insanely better at a thing because they're stuck. Normal people would have moved on. But they're obsessed.
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They think that by drawing THE perfect donut THIS time, they'll have drawn the Donut of God and so reach just once, the feeling of perfect love.
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Summarizing... The game of life is to spread love. Level 1: Love yourself Level 2: Love someone else Level 3: Loving family Level 4: Loving Community ... Level 50: Loving World ... Level 99 : Loving Universe Most get stuck at level 1 or try for level 99 directly.
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