the teenager, the entheogen addict, and the overly precocious all suffer from a belief that they see through a fake world and yearn for something more.
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in the normal process of growth they burn their worldviews down and with that ash they fertilize a new world
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however if the ability to see through the world is too powerful relative to their ability to create a world, then they spiral into increasingly cynical outlooks
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because the idealism is no longer tempered with the bruises of contact with reality (often bc of increased sensitivity or neuroticism) the concept of an ideal is entirely lost
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like the child who claims to understand infinity but then proceeds to try to COUNT towards it and succeed
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if the child is pure willed in its attempt at a certain number it will truly GET and understand the concept. but until it tries itself wo relying on the crutch of regurgitating language, it will not *actually* understand
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and so it is with other concepts like Utopia or Awakening they are all more “advanced” versions of the teenager’s obsession with “realness” actually trying to ACHIEVE them is indicative of lack of understandinf
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the desire for utopia often paves a road to hell the desire for meditation to be meaningful, to be a “thing”, destroys it very essence as “anti-meaning” is the washing clean of the canvas.
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just as you cannot paint on an existing painting or fill a cup that is already full, the purpose of an infinite ideal is to make what you have feel like nothing. it GIVES you space, it does not FILL the space that u must do urself and at that u will surely fail
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