Walking among Paradoxes




My philosophy teacher used to tell me to reject paradoxes, he used to call it mental laziness to accept them. Yet I continue to hold that certain paradoxes can exist within us, without destroying us. Lately I've been thinking of our need to have a clear focus and intent, while being free of outcome. They're ideas or believe systems that appear to be irreconcilable, yet are necessary to what I would call a healthy and successful path in life. Without clear intent you lack commitment and true immersion. Without freedom of outcome, or being dependent of outcome, you are too focused on short term results. You forsake the process, and fail walk the path long enough to carve your imprint. Both are two sides of the coin that we neither ought to neglect or ignore.

The system




They say that the most used word in the English language is "I". I say its a bit of a nonsensical term. There is an intricate system of neuron networks, and organs working together to weave design along a web. That intricate and lovely design turns out to be us, consciousness. As no single tree, river bed, or rock could ever claim complete identity over the Amazon Rain forest, neither can a single organ, neuron, or neuron network ever completely be us. Yet at some point, if you remove enough rocks from the mountain, it ceases to be such said mountain. The concept, the idea of the mountain, rain forest, or identity only serves us as a label in a map, but we ought to not confuse the map with the territory. Consciousness is the illusion that the sum of the parts sometimes creates. As Einstein once remarked regarding reality:"...is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."