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June 2008 
Wisdom in 400 Words.
Posted on Apr 2nd, 2008
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Wiseman
Wiseman
"In a future time, children will work together to build a giant CYBORG" ~ They Might Be Giants
We are each a neuron in the consciousness of the universe, when we are not performing our true purpose, we revert to animal states of consciousness. We are slow-fucking our way into the 90% of brain cells that serve no purpose save making the remaining 10% look good.
When you are aligned to your true identity, your purpose as a neuron becomes completely transparent, and you begin to appreciate such function. As one neuron in the brain simultaneously is the most critical and unimportant: so are you. This is the way of all wisdom - appreciation.
Self organizing systems are fractals and the smallest pieces are identical to the biggest pieces. Reduction to the absurd only points out the relative absurdity of everything - since no one piece of the system is disconnected. This is the way of all structures - they are perpetually interconnected.
The biggest problems arise with misleading self concepts. Who and what you were and who and what you will be are both false pretexts. Your memories are reforged daily, your future is redesigned moment by moment. To be disappointed in the present is to attach too much to your past or your future and cease appreciation for the now. This is the way of the ego - all real and potential worlds are created by me.
In the absence of self identity - we return to object identity. We superimpose elements of the self onto objects in the material world. Our psychological shadow projects itself in the perceived behavior of others. Our insatiable hunger for more is the battle cry of consumerist culture. My body is the whole of my identity. Abandoning such object fixation frees energy to spend on worthwhile endeavors. Energy spent otherwise creates a type of magnetic bottle that prevents movement and growth. This is the way of energy conservation - you spend all of your energy one way or the other, keeping you moving or keeping you fixated.
All progress towards wisdom is the unlearning of the behaviors that keep you from it. The simplest things are the hardest to explain, and the complex things are often simplest. The proof of this can be found by trying to define simple words like truth, or god. Fission is easy to explain, hope is not.
We are each a neuron in the consciousness of the universe, when we are not performing our true purpose, we revert to animal states of consciousness. We are slow-fucking our way into the 90% of brain cells that serve no purpose save making the remaining 10% look good.
When you are aligned to your true identity, your purpose as a neuron becomes completely transparent, and you begin to appreciate such function. As one neuron in the brain simultaneously is the most critical and unimportant: so are you. This is the way of all wisdom - appreciation.
Self organizing systems are fractals and the smallest pieces are identical to the biggest pieces. Reduction to the absurd only points out the relative absurdity of everything - since no one piece of the system is disconnected. This is the way of all structures - they are perpetually interconnected.
The biggest problems arise with misleading self concepts. Who and what you were and who and what you will be are both false pretexts. Your memories are reforged daily, your future is redesigned moment by moment. To be disappointed in the present is to attach too much to your past or your future and cease appreciation for the now. This is the way of the ego - all real and potential worlds are created by me.
In the absence of self identity - we return to object identity. We superimpose elements of the self onto objects in the material world. Our psychological shadow projects itself in the perceived behavior of others. Our insatiable hunger for more is the battle cry of consumerist culture. My body is the whole of my identity. Abandoning such object fixation frees energy to spend on worthwhile endeavors. Energy spent otherwise creates a type of magnetic bottle that prevents movement and growth. This is the way of energy conservation - you spend all of your energy one way or the other, keeping you moving or keeping you fixated.
All progress towards wisdom is the unlearning of the behaviors that keep you from it. The simplest things are the hardest to explain, and the complex things are often simplest. The proof of this can be found by trying to define simple words like truth, or god. Fission is easy to explain, hope is not.
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