Is anyone really happy or is life just a series of interludes between terror?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
the Buddha says all extreme emotional states, positive and negative, are unsustainable
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah that's probably true. I just wish I had a baseline of meh and not tension
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
my solution is to develop a baseline of narcotic stupor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the Buddha would disapprove but he's dead
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
also drinking yourself to death is closer to enlightenment than entheogens and shit if you really think about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
seeking to increase your capacity for experience is the opposite of detachment
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Replying to @arthur_affect
that's the reason I hate the concept of enlightenment as Buddhism traditionally formulates it.
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IMO what mediative practices strain for is basically death
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they strain for acceptance of basic truth, including that death is inevitable and the baseline state of things that exist
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transhumanists love Buddhist imagery/language but they're fundamentally anti-Buddhist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
wanting to transform the physical universe through tech to go from being mostly unconscious to mostly conscious
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