on schopenhauer, arguably the first serious western philosopher interested in buddhism and its enlightened pessimism:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zmfNx7OM4&ab_channel=TheSchoolofLife …
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"the truth was that this world could not have been the work of an all loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in their sufferings" - Arthur Schopenhauer
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> we are driven frantically to push ourselves forward, we want to get good jobs to impress prospective partners, we wonder endlessly about finding The One, and are eventually briefly seduced by someone just long enough to produce a child and then spend the next 40 yrs in misery"
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regarding that scary lonely moment right after orgasm he remarks: "directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard" -
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"There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy... so long as we persist in this inborn error... the world will seem to us full of contradictions." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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> he spent a lot of time trying, yet failing, to be famous. > he spent a lot of time trying, yet failing, to have good relationships.
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near the end of his life he was alone, no spouse, no friends, no family, just a dog he named Atman whom the kids mocked "Mrs Schopenhauer" but he died having achieved peace and serenity
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the kids were right, you shouldn't marry your spirituality. but spirituality is about your internal world, it changes nothing about how other (mis)perceive you externally. ur goal should not be to shout "I DECLARE ENLIGHTENMENT" in the middle of the Office
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