This cursed Wasteland

She was such a nice, delicate and good-looking girl before. 
The daughter of my cousin.

When I saw her lately I got scared and dumbfounded: taking after and obeying the zeitgeist vainly indulging in outward pursuit only, totally ignoring her inner person, despite being in her twenties, she had become like an old woman - an ugly shadow of herself…

So immensely sad…

Inner beauty is constantly ignored and neglected, and if you venture to remind
many a woman about the intimate relation between inward and outward reality,
they will laugh you in the face. Like she would have done now.

We pay the price of our opinionated ignorance – overlooking the Soul has conspicuously
dire consequences.

Alas, the legacy of these age: turning beauty into monstrosity.

What is Method and Science?

Cornelius Agrippa:

Science is not a collection of facts, it is a method. There are limitations to this method, that is, areas of human experience that do not yield to the scientific method, such as ethics and aesthetics. Of course scientists do look at these areas, but as it were from the outside – that is, we may be able to say something about how a sense of beauty evolved, but that enquiry will not lead us to the experience of beauty. On the other hand, if there are ‘secret vibrations’ that manifest physically then there is no reason in principle why scientific method should not be one valid way of investigating them.

Me:

As long as science looks to ethics, aesthetics and pathos from the outside, not penetrating deeply into these perennial matters, as long as Beauty and the Imponderablity of Life is left aside as “secondary”, then this very “method” of investigating is nothing but shallow undertaking, vanity and felony hidden behind grandiloquent terms and overblown achievements.

So how can Method investigate things that totally surpass Its conditioned frame of
perception…?

http://julienmatei.com/2012/12/09/questions-to-you-an-excerpt-from-an-earlier-post/

Unhappy trying to be happy – the pursuit of happiness

buddhasal:
How can you be happy if you don’t know what unhappy is? For happiness to exist unhappiness and discontent must exist. So there is some good in unhappiness.

Me:
It´s a very tricky thing:
“For happiness to exist unhappiness and discontent must exist. So there is some good in unhappiness”, you say.

Let´s explore this!
From the perspective of duality you are right. We all know what discontent and unhappiness is, that´s for sure.

The point is – as I emphasised before – once you feel discontent and misfortune you automatically strive for “happiness”. As long as dissatisfaction is the starting point of our journey to wellness, we will attract and encounter nothing but deceit and more displeasure. Can you see this?
What else can we find other than unhappiness when unhappy?

In this sense, the troublesome pursuit of happiness becomes vanity and hypocrisy…yes, imposture…- Ego craving for pleasure, eventually ego vehemently trying to escape its inherent predicament – conflict and suffering.
In this sense, the chasing of happiness becomes “important”…

Happiness becomes thus a mere futile projection, an inane and trivially stupid pursuance
for the illusion of self-aggrandisement.

Just look around at out present age and check for yourself if what I say is right…
UNHAPPY TRYING TO BE HAPPY!
Witness what dire and fatal outcome has this very quest for happiness for ourselves
and everything around us.

Now: Is happiness a projection?… An outcome, something to look or strive for?

Does happiness ever go hand in hand with discontent and unhappiness?
Is happiness to be found at the level of duality?
Does the sense of real wellness and felicity belong to “the known”?…
How can something “known”, ever become worthwhile having…?

How can effort and repetition equate well-being…?

Bottom line:

Happiness is the beloved and distinguished guest who comes uninvited the moment
we fully realize the vanity and hopelessness of the endeavour to be happy.

http://julienmatei.com/2012/12/08/think-about-this/

A quote

Vanity competes with the irrational and the battle is always won by the tragic.

Life is a menace

Due to a deep existential fear, we have excluded  life´s mystery .
Everything (no matter how “good or bad”)  that does not fit into our fragile mental construction, is  rejected and regarded as a menace. For most of the humans, Real Life is very threatening indeed . :)

But without the readiness to approach  what “we do not understand,” everything we do, becomes pure pettiness, shallowness  and unbearable vanity. To live non-essentially is the sickness of this age. The consequences are obvious : collective neurosis, a striking alienation between people and an unbearable existential inner emptiness, which no one will acknowledge, but all suffer from.

Facebook

We give away our valuable time to fear, and other people get rich on our weakness, loneliness and lacking courage to live.
The founder of Facebook makes billions on our vanity, narcissism, and  frustration. We have become so irrevocably crazy and neurotic, so afraid of confronting life spontaneously, so we let our lives be confiscated by whatever illusion of togetherness.

Perfect illusions for perfect idiots.

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