If I have got rid of my ego, I won't be tweeting.
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Replying to @mindless1729
The levels of cognitive dissonance are strong with this one.
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Replying to @mistermircea
Becoming egoless creates meta egos that are hard to get rid of. I suspect my optimisation journey has in fact created such meta egos/ meta sense of selves. The tweets are carvings on stones capturing the journey. Why do I carve, if I am not attached to it?
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Replying to @mindless1729
Only ego can conceptualize itself and oppose it. It can split itself infinitely. It's a lost cause.
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Replying to @mindless1729 @mistermircea
Since you are here, I would like to know what is your take on this one. I see art as a selfish endeavor, but why would the artists share the art with the world than keeping it in their basement, if art is only a selfish endeavor?
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Replying to @mindless1729
At first it is a selfish endeavor because one does it to establish a relationship with themselves. Art is way of communicating and relating, to self and to existence. Art is an ever-expanding circle: while the self remains in the center with each iteration, relationships expand.
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Replying to @mistermircea
We forget that the artist as an individual expression is a recent phenomenon in human history. It was not always so. Art was once symbiotic with existence, an expression of community, tradition, a collection of relationships, a function of the group, and so on.
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Replying to @mistermircea
"Symbiotic with existence." We're meant to do it. Art is a selfish endeavour because searching for Enlightenment is selfish. We practice art because we rediscover we're supposed to practice art—if indeed we are
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If you have created art you have a deep feeling that while you facilitated it, it doesn't belong to you, not entirely. It's like a child, you have to let it go into the world where it belongs. Part of you goes with it wherever it does. If there's no let-go there's no art.
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