The Wisdom of Insecurity

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Quite the contrary, it’s the stability and usefulness of this abstraction that makes it very easy to confuse for reality. We are forced to wrestle with the demon of nothingness, until that day when, through thought, prayer and meditation, we - or rather the Being of God - melts it in a Fire of Attention, Love and Peace. A friend of mine captured it perfectly writing to me: “it’s almost as if time at once is and is not, in that the future/past never actually “exist” but at the same time seem to be such a substantial part of what makes any sort of present”. Showing the path forward by pointing out that words are symbolic representations of reality, in the same sense that money is representative of value and not value itself. But the thought, “this living in the present sounds like something I’d like to have, how can I get it?

Because if someone asked me what I thought of this book in conversation, that would be my likely response.Glas i misli Alana Votsa sam prvi put čula u numeri "Dreams" grupe Nuages a guglajući dobila sliku gospodina evropskog porekla sa ducktail bradom i u kimonu. This book forever changed my life and irreversibly changed the way I look at anything and everything. To the extent that we can say ideas are technologies, this gives the impression that these “spiritual” technologies for living a vastly improved life have been widely available but very rarely employed.

In such feeling, seeing, and thinking life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself.And so it goes ad infinitum, or until suicide, which will present itself as the only escape if this circle gets its way. The desire for perfect control, of the environment and of oneself, is based on a profound mistrust of the controller. Traveling in Asia makes it clear that most Buddhists and Hindus there are engaged in superstitious rituals with a more literal interpretation of scripture than Watts’ winking at the reader suggests. However, I do think there are some interesting possibilities for investigating what this kind of experience he describes may be. I feel such a dressing down does almost a disservice to the book (as it does with the much later The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, which expounds on very similar themes).