Slothrop Reads

We could plant a house, we could build a tree, I don't even care, we could read all three.

The premise is that the world, if we observe it scientifically, is groundless and constantly changing. Likewise, our minds, if we observe them through meditative practices, is also groundless and ever-changing. And the two––the world and our minds––are intertwined; one doesn’t predate the other. If you take these premises seriously, like the authors of this book, you will experience a pretty much paradigm busting shift in the way you perceive, or begin to stop perceiving, a “Self.” Which is how people learn to be happy in a permanent, non-event specific way. An important move and one which western philosophy has yet to embrace, insisting as it does on some kind of postion from which to pontificate. A- 

The premise is that the world, if we observe it scientifically, is groundless and constantly changing. Likewise, our minds, if we observe them through meditative practices, is also groundless and ever-changing. And the two––the world and our minds––are intertwined; one doesn’t predate the other. If you take these premises seriously, like the authors of this book, you will experience a pretty much paradigm busting shift in the way you perceive, or begin to stop perceiving, a “Self.” Which is how people learn to be happy in a permanent, non-event specific way. An important move and one which western philosophy has yet to embrace, insisting as it does on some kind of postion from which to pontificate. A- 

3 months ago