Put another way, if “dying before you die” (in the Eckhart Tolle sense) is an A+, then the “Good Student” may say “Is just dying a C? I just need to pass this class.”
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The trouble w/ trying to systematically create enlightened beings is that to date, the most successful system has been a concentration camp. This is well documented:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning …
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n = 1 tho Besides, by his own writing. It brought out the hero in some people and the evil in others (prisoners who would help the guards) But the more interesting question tho. Provided that a concentration camp was in fact the best way to enlightenment, would you make one?
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not sure the moralistic lens is the right one here. I’m just amusing the idea that if “more homo sapiens should feel as one w/ the universe.” is the goal then humans have been fairly good at this self-destruction relative to other animals.
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From the wiki: “The last stage is bitterness at the lack of responsiveness of the world outside—a "superficiality and lack of feeling...so disgusting that one finally felt like creeping into a hole and neither hearing nor seeing human beings any more"” 1/x
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“Worse was disillusionment, which was the discovery that suffering does not end, that the longed-for happiness will not come. This was the experience of those who—like Frankl—returned home to discover that no one awaited them.”
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