The worst thing about being human. loneliness. Aloneness. Knowing that whatever you experience is only that. YOUR experience. Do we ever share anything? Do we? Everything that's seen, felt, touched, heard, tasted is always a unique experience and totally contained as a point of view. We try to share, but it's a subjective experience. How shit is this. That we can never touch another. And that's the essential yearning of living. To connect, touch and share. And we never can.
Until we're not.
You've just triggered a thought. The separated human mind can also be a place to hide, safe from the perceived horrors and disappointments of the world. A place where any kind of fantasy world can be created and controlled.
ReplyDeleteSo even if the belief in the individual is seen through there can still be a running back to the supposed safety of the mind. It's a fallback mechanism. And as such it's nothing more than a habit.
But yeah, still shit. :)
I-Robot said: "The separated human mind can also be a place to hide, safe from the perceived horrors and disappointments of the world. A place where any kind of fantasy world can be created and controlled."
ReplyDeleteCan it? What does that? What chooses to do that?
Yes, as you say when the belief in the 'I' is seen through there CAN be a running back to the supposed fantasy of the mind. There can be anything. But it's not being done by an autonomous, separate, discrete indivudual. And yes, it's a habit, or more accurately, I would say: a movement. Mind (or rather a thought) happens. and another and another. And it can appear to constitute an experience that is shit. Or not shit. But when it's seen that it's not done by 'me', then it's not latched onto. It doesn't linger. Actually it never was or did, but it may have felt like it!. :0).