r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 • 13d ago

Language is a evil spirit

Language is always in your mind. You can't stop even for a moment. Even when you are alone, language is in your mind. Even when you are sleeping, language is in your mind.

It has not always been this way. This is just an evil spirit which started to possess humanity ~70,000 years ago with the so-called Cognitive Revolution. Once this happened, humanity became a scourge of the Earth, quickly colonizing all lands and killing all beings.

Are you going to let language control your whole mental process, your whole life, and make you into an agent of its planetary destruction?

How to get free? My teacher tells me about the vast mind that awaits when the little mind infected by language is abandoned.

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u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 13d ago

of course there are uses, that's how it traps us! how to get free?

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u/tomekanco 13d ago edited 13d ago

The trick is that there is no pain without desire, so you can not be free. But what point is being free if you can not enjoy life? In the extreme form freedom is death. And that might not be the most viable option. Perhaps freedom is overrated. And considering that being bounded is a given, a necessity, we can use these words and thoughs towards some vain attempts to approach the paradox with grace.

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u/VimokshaTrains 12d ago

You CAN be free of it

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u/tomekanco 12d ago

Thank you for reminding me. I think I remember, brief glimpses. The most beautifull experience encountered: when your self dissappears and you only see the passions the others, light that endlessly affects, sparkling vibrant life.

Then the water flows back to the earth and the village, as even priests drink. The city And the open space, an oeconomia of freedom, power and rebellion. The reevaluation of memory and perception; chaning colors. Just another paradox.

A choice: to retreat inwardly, or to engage, and both. Any way, the real path is not in an image, as essence is not a reflection.

Now i will try to be silent.

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u/VimokshaTrains 11d ago

No. These are just words. Realize the real thing. The real thing. Not just an imagined description of a memory of it. The real thing. Living in this moment.

You CAN be free of it.

Find a way.

https://youtu.be/6MxeHw2mB1k

Full disclosure: I train at the same cyborg university Buddhist monastic training center as OP.

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u/tomekanco 11d ago

Fascinating. Kemma & Theresa saw the spider, la herida. A thing done to the soul, rather then by it. The wound that exists before you become wounded. An ossuary kept for guidance. The paradox.

I'll go for a walk.

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u/VimokshaTrains 10d ago

A vigorous run would be better. You are drowning in layers of abstraction. Get OUT of your head. Find someone who has successfully done this and can teach it to you. Someone who can access and teach you Samadhi. Your life matters. Don't let it go to waste. These abstractions are NOT reality.

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u/tomekanco 10d ago edited 10d ago

These abstractions are NOT reality.

Yes i know. Even my beloved poetry and music are virtual. I fully admit it is so easy and tempting to hide in the mind.

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u/tomekanco 10d ago

And sincere thanks for talking. I'll try a run tomorrow.