Sunday, August 26, 2018

Duck, Duck, Soup - The Role of Altering Brain Chemistry in Achieving the Profound Goal of Supreme Enlightenment



It ain't there.

If this be error and upon me proved.
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  1. The brain is a complex tangle of nuerons (Ikkyu's garden of weeds, no doubt) sitting in a soup. 
  2. Yes, you can alter the soup so the nuerons function differently. 
  3. The different functioning can feel like something. It can affect emotions so that it feels quite profound and special. 
  4. The spectrum of soup recipies across humanity is the result of evolution.
  5. Do not consider the romanticized, anthropomorphicized version of Darwins "survival of the fittest", think of the more pragmatic reality... "what can exist, will. What cannot, will not". 
  6. The way society is structured now allows all sorts of soup recipes to be effective that would not have been many years ago. 
  7. A "drunk" can be protected by society for a long time. 
  8. A "drunk" when drunk probably could not survive a wolf attack. A sober person might. 
  9. Thinking of the basic things you might like to be capable of in any moment - fucking with your natural soup recipe in ways that takes you away from being fit for them. Best not do it. That is what underlies the intoxication precept. 
  10. The soup affects how you feel. 
  11. Feelings are different from consideration (wisdom?). 
  12. Taking action because of feelings can cause trouble directly to you or comming back atchya later on.
  13. You might have experience differentiating the feelings you normally experience and managing the actions you are motivated to take with your consideration. In most people it takes a long time to even appreciate the difference between feeling driven actions and consideration. 
  14. If you fuck with your soup too much you might have feelings that drive you to actions and have no experience to moderate those urges. That way there be beasties. 
  15. There is one single reality as it is. It is out there. It is rather boring though quite majestic in its incomprehensibility. 
  16. Our bodies are not able to apprehend reality as it is. There's all kinds of stuff going on that we can't sense, or can't sense with complete resolution to see how all be bits work. 
  17. We are indeed fish looking out of a fish bowl. Frogs in a well. 
  18. Altering your soup can only mess with the perception's appearance in your consciousness. It does not open any magic doors. You can dick with the horizontal, you can dick with vertical, but the picture you get is still limited by your flyback transformer.  
  19. You remain separated from complete full spectrum, exact detail experience of reality as it is. Even language separates you as it puts borders on things that have no borders. 
  20.  As a side note, "the mind waves" was the third truth not a correction of the first two. 
  21. You are on no journey to anywhere that can be actually facilitated by messing with your soup. 
  22. You are just here. A bowl of soup sitting in reality as it is, trying to make sense of reality as it is. 
  23. It's like it's night and you have a cluttered porch sitting in darkness. "enlightenment" is turning on the porch light. You can see the clutter more clearly, but that's all you get. A better, perhaps longer lasting, view of reality as it is.
  24. Best not mess with your soup too much. Learn to discern how your feeling and your consideration work with the soup you normally have (and its inevitable variations in the course of a day, based on all kinds of influencers from diet to biom to sleep, etc....).  
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