This is a wonderful essay Oshun. I had been thinking, “golly, my mind feels like this all the time!” and arrived to the part where your partner says the same. Maybe we should be friends 😂
> "But even if so, that tells us something about pure awareness. It’s no place to live."
I too have always thought this (though perhaps for a different reason). This state sounds truly blissful, but at some point, I'll still have to eat! Snap back to reality..
Ultimately in my opinion this comes down to intrinsic vs. instrumental living, and most of our lives, we live in the latter, though we admittedly often miss the whole point of what living is for (intrinsics).
This is a wonderful essay Oshun. I had been thinking, “golly, my mind feels like this all the time!” and arrived to the part where your partner says the same. Maybe we should be friends 😂
haha yeah probably — thank you!
Very well written and an interesting thesis!
> "But even if so, that tells us something about pure awareness. It’s no place to live."
I too have always thought this (though perhaps for a different reason). This state sounds truly blissful, but at some point, I'll still have to eat! Snap back to reality..
Ultimately in my opinion this comes down to intrinsic vs. instrumental living, and most of our lives, we live in the latter, though we admittedly often miss the whole point of what living is for (intrinsics).