one of these things is not like the other

I was reading Osborne  when I came upon Nietsche... ( how did the shift occur ? I remember Lisa Lisa in the bombardiers reading nietsche to help with the job, ( weird book - contrarian/non-standard perspective for that world but not really touching bedrock I felt ) , I have been using Power as my first Wordle attempt, maybe I googled 'will to power' or something... ) 

turns out, nietsche's philosophy is the wind right underneath Adler, Jung, Frankl, Sartre, Camus, Focault, Kafka, Hesse, Shaw, and also ....  Batman .... and of course, the life is difficult theme in our recent resort - Scott Peck....

Gemini has given a four book reading list, will to power not on it.

Will to power starts with an observation that .....the distinguishing feature of our nineteenth century is not the triumph of science, but the triumph of the scientific method over science.

btw, Sherlock Holmes was a 'scientific-method'-ist first,  a detective later , the method amplified his talents and if you remember , if he weren't to be a detective, he'd have been a thief ( the tv series say pirate) , and while Doyle's stories are more pulp , The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes identifies Victorian thought as the ground which gives rise to the bloom that resides at 221b... the squarest of the squares (hence the sener at women). A similar model was put forth by Jules Verne in Around the world in 80 days , a man who can plan a project so big ( a trip around the world) in precise steps and times ..... 

 cartesian abstraction as the source of square-ism, wholism was lost/ignored ( his-story/leviathan), deleuze - the latest knight of the method ?

 religion and alcohol , descartes and god, afterlife as opium, Deida's superior man advise about naked unadorned life (no scrolling on the pot) .... eastern religions help you go into the pain, western religions avoid

there is the thread of suffering tht runs through all the works of men

Puff the fractal dragon caught the error and Grew from naught again. Can you turn shit to sugar ? Or will you brood and get depressed at the unfairness of life, can turn your sorrows into wind of your sails ..

 There is only one treasure, and that is the self, from/to which all joys flow 

Saturn -  discipline, persistence, blue-collar-y

 Person Of Interest is Matrix meets Enemy of the State

And jn 2026,  it hasn't aged at all ... 

 was reading osborne's book on the maharishi's teachings. there's a dialogue with  a jesuit , who asks questions like 'i am finite, god is infinite.... how can i know god' , and then it hit where I had heard this before... 

 DAVID
		What was your idea Elijah?

Beat.

				 ELIJAH(soft)
		If there is someone like me
		in the world, and I'm at one
		end of the spectrum...
		Couldn't there be someone
		the opposite of me, at the
		other end?
			(beat)
		A person who can't be hurt
		like the rest of us. A kind
		of person they were talking
		about in those stories.

Elijah points at the framed comic sketches.

				 ELIJAH(soft)
		A person they believed was
		put here to protect the rest
		of us. Guard us.

and then I remembered what this sounded like ... this is actually just a rehash of Descartes' argument for the existence of God ...

so it looks like armies have been , since forever, carrying these arguments in their arsenal, persuading millions into membership by the simple device of looking decent, claiming to be holy, and presenting logical arguments ....

can you spot the fallacy in this ? would you be immune ?


 

 the human is like the hand

what he grasps he becomes

the hand that can let go

can grasp anything

 become anything 

it chooses

 pro-tip while meditating - since one needs to suppress the fault-finding mind, we just need to remember when we do meditation wrong, for eg, no zafu, no mudra, no 10 min -  so that it automatically becomes a full valid session !

 If you jump up fast enough and turn around, would you be able to see yourself in the past moment ? Youll have to whip faster than the speed of light though ... and become momentsrily infinitely heavy so that all yomama jokes suddenly become about you....

I think of light (or the speed of it ) as a primal consciousness; speeding it up causes time to slow down, ask any meditator ....

Meditation doesnt reverse ageing, a meditator has moved less through time, hence has aged less...

Similarly i think of the Huayen jewel net as  where each jewel is a shard of consciousness reflecting imperfectly.... as they 'purify' they becme clearer and clearer , and eventually turn invisible then insubstantial, dissolving into the substrate which turns out to be ..... more consciousness itself until everything collapses into a single point of itness.the world as we know it ,not being percieved anymore,  disappears snap,  like an old.memory...

Now reading intro to mahamudra (tibetan)

 The journey is the destination 

Therefore the ticket price is the integral of infinite sub journeys to each point in the journey, limit tending to zero and all that, yknow, and thanks to Zeno, we'll never arrive. Therefore, to arrive wt a destination is to never have travelled....