I think there's a sort of isolated safety in ridiculous things. Much (most?) of the items of any culture are suffused with the internal struggles of that culture. Anyone who gets the items gets the struggle with them, inherits them in a sense. So science fiction often comes with an undercurrent of triumphalism or despair of humanity, video games come with over-sexualized women characters and the notion that violence solves problems, science (often) comes with an antipathy to religion and vice-versa. But things that are ridiculous are at great distance from these struggles, so maybe that's why they have their particular usefulness in exploring oneself.
It's "stop putting all your energy into trying to find a concrete connection between A and B, or a theory for A's existence: that is mu. It's so far beside the point that it is detracting from the point. What matters is that you get insight from A".
Sorry for the minor rudeness, but at the moment the more interesting question to me is, at what point in one's spiritual development does one start telling all the world what matters and does not matter? Because I don't think I've met someone who did not do so. We praise our path most fiercely when we first set out on it. Maybe indifference, in the Stoic sense (you can call it neutrality, confidence, rolling with the punches, peace of mind...) is always preceded by the preaching of indifference.
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Date: 2011-03-30 08:06 am (UTC)It's "stop putting all your energy into trying to find a concrete connection between A and B, or a theory for A's existence: that is mu. It's so far beside the point that it is detracting from the point. What matters is that you get insight from A".
Sorry for the minor rudeness, but at the moment the more interesting question to me is, at what point in one's spiritual development does one start telling all the world what matters and does not matter? Because I don't think I've met someone who did not do so. We praise our path most fiercely when we first set out on it. Maybe indifference, in the Stoic sense (you can call it neutrality, confidence, rolling with the punches, peace of mind...) is always preceded by the preaching of indifference.