In a yang heavy culture the men feel larger than the women. It takes time to know who a man is, but women are sized up 80% in a second purely on appearance. The 'smaller' person is easier to understand.
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E.g. the japanese craftsman honing a detail down to a precision way beyond the point where you can't tell the difference. You wonder why they care about something no one will notice. You see their eyes pierce past reality and into god.
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Yet if some guy has dedicated his life to perfecting the perfect egg it's not something that seems reasonable to actually do for your life. You eat the meticulously prepared egg, pretend to taste the difference, and pay a larger amount to have an egg layered with godliness.
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Because the path of godliness is unique to each person, we can only sense the 'light' of the person following a path. To take the perfect egg path for yourself personally is mimetic and dumb.
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What you should gather from these 'enlightened' experts is that the kind of discipline, focus, dedication, and intensity with which they do things are tools that you *need* when you follow your own path.
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If you see that the true path is one where you have to achieve these traits it's easier to distinguish between true obstacles that should be avoided, and pseudo obstacles which you just have to punch through because you can.
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A pianist like Beethoven for example is considered a "high" kind of person just like a famous artist or scientist. They all exhibit the same high quality of self despite taking completely different paths.
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They set off in different directions yet mysteriously find themselves united in being worshipped, sharing the same altar.
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What brings you closer to reality? What makes you feel grounded? What makes you feel "home". Everything else is a story.
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Stories are greatly enjoyable and a numbing release from a frightening "home". The more frightening the home or the more lost one is, the more one latches strongly onto a story.
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A new home can never be found in a story. The only true home leads away from the stories.
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What makes you drop your stories? Death? Children? War? What makes you "get serious". Think being angry at someone at work for stealing your work and then realizing their mother and entire family just died in a freak accident. That "dropping" of anger is "getting serious"
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Even something that felt really real in that moment like being angry about your entire future career being sabotaged is realized to be a mask and dropped.
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It's eventually picked up though. In our minds while we still see the spirit in a lifelong devotion to perfecting something menial we admit that we can't tell the difference. "I" would bore myself to literal death.
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Indeed "I" does thrash wildly away from boredom the same way a cat avoids water. It is an intense dislike of the feeling of dying even if you know you're not literally dying.
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What brings you closer to reality? Where you see subtleties no one had seen before. Mostly we're not aware of them. Everyday feels the same to us despite how everything is always changing massively.
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E.g. our atoms relative to the sun and relative to the center of the galaxy are whisking away at incredible speeds through the universe yet we feel relatively static.
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As aspects of reality, we are closest to reality when we're LEAST trying to BE. There's a natural tempo to Wu Wei. Too fast and you rush the tempo trying to be more than reality. Reality feels boring. Too slow and reality feels anxious.
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people who "think fast" will feel bored by reality and try all sorts of things to spice things up. people who "think slow" see reality as threatening and try to seal themselves away from or learn from it in an "understand and respect thy enemy"
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E.g. people who see the world as small vs people who see the world as big. In the former you have more capacity for creativity, games, and optimism but also ham fisted mistakes of idealistic low resolution thinking.
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In the latter the world is seen in much higher definition but in a far more focused area. The world can feel like a source of endless mystery and wonder but also a dark and dangerous forest.
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Ok I've looped back to the idea of seeing people/world as bigger or smaller. Idea circle completed.
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If a bunch of idea circles are linked it becomes an idea chain. The superior form of an idea thread.
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