These are some of my experiences and views.
My main influences are zen, advaita, psychology and natural science.
SPIRITUAL
...I could look straight into the soul of the other. With that I refer to an experience we all
know, but it was much clearer and deeper than in ‘normal life...’
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...During this, I rose above that polarized state and experienced that my primitive indulgent side and my higher moral side are ONE AND THE SAME...
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...In that moment I saw that conventional religious belief is a dictatorship of the mind...
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...I saw that the fact that there are difficulties in life is not a problem, but the fact that
you WANT TO GET RID of those difficulties make them into a problem...
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...You are convinced that you are angry at the other person while you are actually angry
with yourself...
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...So humor has to do with something that makes humans unique. What makes humans unique in comparison to animals is our highly developed ability to think in concepts...
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PHILOSOPHICAL
...Punishing people by killing them is not the way of understanding. Killing people as a punishment is the outcome of NOT understanding...
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...Clinging to materialistic life goals is a deluded attempt at trusting that which
cannot be trusted; it will all turn out to be fleeting and empty...
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...So the necessity for having an identity is caused by the same mechanism that causes the necessity for
having a concept of God...
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...I did not want to believe that nature, reality and the universe for that matter, were
cruel in essence...
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...So when he went completely downhill, doing everything that he was not supposed to do and didn’t try to get enlightened,
the result of that was enlightenment...
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SOCIETAL
Making as much profit as possible is the chief aim of a lot of businesses. Their commercial activity is based on
greed and deception...
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...Naïve in the sense that they really believe, like a child, that the new government
will put it all right...
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...At a certain point, after hearing one ‘corrupt master’-account after another,
I even
got the impression that being corrupt is a prerequisite to becoming a renowned master...
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...A president who takes his country to war on false assumptions should not be rewarded by being re–elected, but
should be held accountable for being dead wrong.
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...So if Nader would not have entered the 2000 presidential race, the war in Iraq would
very likely not have happened...
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