Hey Guys,
This has taken me a while to come up with, and a while to get down on paper. This article is best accepted with an open mind. The information here will be difficult to digest if you decide to fully believe it and even put it to use,
for its principles contradict many common thoughts that you have likely been conditioned to believe during your lives. This document will delve into certain aspects of Eastern philosophy without getting into what many of you may
believe to be eccentricities. I am not a Buddhist. This article is written from an atheistic perspective with an Eastern twist, yet it can present much value to anyone. I am not saying that what I am putting forth is in any way the right way to live life, and I am aware that this article may be in many ways inaccurate.
With that said, this article is not about seducing women. Not directly, at least. It is searching for something deeper, something that I believe pertains to the DJ mindset: how to live a good and happy life. Many of you might be turned off by that sentence. Perhaps you are focusing on different things and don't want to focus on finding happiness in your life. Perhaps you think you've got it all figured out and don't want another article or ideology to throw you off again. Whatever the case, I would suggest that you read this article with an open mind. It might, if not completely alter your perception, help you see things slightly differently.
Anyways, this article will start by illuminating many of the problems in our daily manner of perceiving things. Some of these statements may be obvious to you, some may "click" and put much of your perception into perspective if you give yourself the time to think about them.
I. The Nature of Reality
As far as I am concerned, throughout history, we have been fooled into many manners of perceiving things. I would like to tell you right now: our manner of viewing things is not the right one, any more so than that of a bird. Our perception is simply a tool that has allowed to survive throughout history when other species have died out. We live much of our life in a box that serves a great evolutionary purpose but that does not necessarily help us to experience the essence of reality as is. We have not simply been born divine creatures with true perception of the world around us. We are not the center of the universe. We, like all other animals, will live and die after a relatively infinitesimal period of time. We have a unique manner of perceiving things that we can in no way prove is the right one. This manner of perceiving things serves a purpose.
An example of the usefulness of our perception put into use is that of our ability of categorizing things. We as humans have a huge obsession with categorizing things. We give things names that have a great significance to us, but do these names really represent the essence of an object? A person says knife, and another is satisfied. What is a knife really? A knife is nothing but a bunch of atoms which are constantly whirring and whizzing at a blinding speed. Against these atoms photons of light are reflecting. Yet when we look at this, we simply say: metal knife. Our manner of perceiving things has served us a great biological purpose, by allowing us to use these objects practically, and by keeping us from having to take in a million things at once. We don't have to look at all the little bits and edges of the knife- we just clump it all into the concept we call a knife. Time, as well, is another constraint of our manner of viewing things. Perhaps reality is not, as we see it, a chronologically flowing entity. Perhaps reality is really experienced all at once, and not through the dimension of time. We experience things through all of our senses, but there is no evidence to prove that our manner of experiencing things is at all the right one. For all we know we are as blind as ants.
The ego is a limiting human concept. People see you and you see yourself as " the funny one", or "the depressed guy" or the "cool guy." What do these concepts really mean, for crying out loud. You are not any of these things. You are nothing and because of this everything. "You" does not exist. Your personality and ego are concepts that, also, have been created to serve evolutionary purposes. Your personality helps you interact with others, and your ego also serves a purpose: it leads you to do what you want and therefore helps you obtain what you need to survive. In an evolutionary timeframe, the "me, me" urge is extremely useful. However, in order to help us fully understand reality or at least to enjoy it the way it should be, it is extremely counterproductive.
Emotions, themselves, are nothing but chemical responses to reality. Have you ever been under the grip of great anger, or sadness, or depression? It is unbelievable how much a little too much of a few chemicals released in the brain can change the way you see life. When you are under the grip of stress or anxiety, you feel like there is no way out. You can be the richest or poorest man on earth, yet your emotions will still dominate you. You struggle, and struggle, yet everything seems to be crumbling around you. It is a horrible state to be in. Yet it actually is not. It is simply a certain batch of chemicals being released in your brain, an instinctual biological response developed over millenia to help you adapt to the world you live in. It is not "horrible" or "unpleasant". It simply is, like everything else in the world.
Do we have any reason to believe that a higher power exists? If so I would like to see a legit one. Religious people will simply answer: "You must have faith!" Religion is simply a way to avoid utter responsibility for our existence. The most obsessive promoters of religion are the most blind of people. Have you ever noticed that a religious person will get extremely violent when his religion is attacked? Accepting the possibility that an entire view of the world has until then been false, and that one really has no purpose in the world, is too much for some people. Religion, as far as I see it, is something that people cling to because they cannot accept the reality that one day they will die. They cling to it extremely tightly simply because the possibility of simply living a meaningless life and then dying is too terrifying for them to do otherwise.
Reality is meaningless. There is no higher purpose to it. We are simply another construct of evolution, masses of atoms clumped together in a way that time has dictated. We are a tremendous cosmic coincidence. There really is no meaning. If you die right now or in ten years, nothing will matter. If your girlfriend or your mother or father do die as well, it will mean nothing. The way we see concepts are simply our way of identifying clusters of atoms and in turn smaller particles and using them to our means. Our way of identifying objects, or people, has no firm basis in reality. It is simply a language we use, not to understand the world around us, but rather to use it for our biological purposes. Beauty is completely subjective. Do you think a HB 10 is really beautiful to anyone but us humans? We find her beautiful because her shapes and curves have been biologically ingrained to us as attractive...evolutionarilly she produces the best offspring. In reality she is just a clump of cosmic dust and in 100 years she will be dead.
People want to be remembered when they die. Why is this? People are clinging to life, they are afraid of death. Wanting to be remembered after death is a last ditch effort to be part of life. People simply can't accept that they are not the center of the universe, and that things will not change at all whether they die or not. You may say "things will change tremendously if a great leader dies before spreading his message across the world." How so? Reality will still be a bunch of atoms, there will still be unhappiness in the world, and the world will still be an unbelievably small part of a universe that most likely has absolutely no significance.
In short, there are many flaws in our manner of perceiving things that clearly block us off from reality. I believe that part of being happy is accepting reality as it is, and taking off the rose-colored glasses. Accepting these truths completely may be difficult for everyone, and some may refuse to believe it. I am not even saying this is reality, but I am pretty sure this is a much more realistic picture of it than we have ever been taught in high school or, I assume, college.
On to the flaws of our way of thinking in society.
This has taken me a while to come up with, and a while to get down on paper. This article is best accepted with an open mind. The information here will be difficult to digest if you decide to fully believe it and even put it to use,
for its principles contradict many common thoughts that you have likely been conditioned to believe during your lives. This document will delve into certain aspects of Eastern philosophy without getting into what many of you may
believe to be eccentricities. I am not a Buddhist. This article is written from an atheistic perspective with an Eastern twist, yet it can present much value to anyone. I am not saying that what I am putting forth is in any way the right way to live life, and I am aware that this article may be in many ways inaccurate.
With that said, this article is not about seducing women. Not directly, at least. It is searching for something deeper, something that I believe pertains to the DJ mindset: how to live a good and happy life. Many of you might be turned off by that sentence. Perhaps you are focusing on different things and don't want to focus on finding happiness in your life. Perhaps you think you've got it all figured out and don't want another article or ideology to throw you off again. Whatever the case, I would suggest that you read this article with an open mind. It might, if not completely alter your perception, help you see things slightly differently.
Anyways, this article will start by illuminating many of the problems in our daily manner of perceiving things. Some of these statements may be obvious to you, some may "click" and put much of your perception into perspective if you give yourself the time to think about them.
I. The Nature of Reality
As far as I am concerned, throughout history, we have been fooled into many manners of perceiving things. I would like to tell you right now: our manner of viewing things is not the right one, any more so than that of a bird. Our perception is simply a tool that has allowed to survive throughout history when other species have died out. We live much of our life in a box that serves a great evolutionary purpose but that does not necessarily help us to experience the essence of reality as is. We have not simply been born divine creatures with true perception of the world around us. We are not the center of the universe. We, like all other animals, will live and die after a relatively infinitesimal period of time. We have a unique manner of perceiving things that we can in no way prove is the right one. This manner of perceiving things serves a purpose.
An example of the usefulness of our perception put into use is that of our ability of categorizing things. We as humans have a huge obsession with categorizing things. We give things names that have a great significance to us, but do these names really represent the essence of an object? A person says knife, and another is satisfied. What is a knife really? A knife is nothing but a bunch of atoms which are constantly whirring and whizzing at a blinding speed. Against these atoms photons of light are reflecting. Yet when we look at this, we simply say: metal knife. Our manner of perceiving things has served us a great biological purpose, by allowing us to use these objects practically, and by keeping us from having to take in a million things at once. We don't have to look at all the little bits and edges of the knife- we just clump it all into the concept we call a knife. Time, as well, is another constraint of our manner of viewing things. Perhaps reality is not, as we see it, a chronologically flowing entity. Perhaps reality is really experienced all at once, and not through the dimension of time. We experience things through all of our senses, but there is no evidence to prove that our manner of experiencing things is at all the right one. For all we know we are as blind as ants.
The ego is a limiting human concept. People see you and you see yourself as " the funny one", or "the depressed guy" or the "cool guy." What do these concepts really mean, for crying out loud. You are not any of these things. You are nothing and because of this everything. "You" does not exist. Your personality and ego are concepts that, also, have been created to serve evolutionary purposes. Your personality helps you interact with others, and your ego also serves a purpose: it leads you to do what you want and therefore helps you obtain what you need to survive. In an evolutionary timeframe, the "me, me" urge is extremely useful. However, in order to help us fully understand reality or at least to enjoy it the way it should be, it is extremely counterproductive.
Emotions, themselves, are nothing but chemical responses to reality. Have you ever been under the grip of great anger, or sadness, or depression? It is unbelievable how much a little too much of a few chemicals released in the brain can change the way you see life. When you are under the grip of stress or anxiety, you feel like there is no way out. You can be the richest or poorest man on earth, yet your emotions will still dominate you. You struggle, and struggle, yet everything seems to be crumbling around you. It is a horrible state to be in. Yet it actually is not. It is simply a certain batch of chemicals being released in your brain, an instinctual biological response developed over millenia to help you adapt to the world you live in. It is not "horrible" or "unpleasant". It simply is, like everything else in the world.
Do we have any reason to believe that a higher power exists? If so I would like to see a legit one. Religious people will simply answer: "You must have faith!" Religion is simply a way to avoid utter responsibility for our existence. The most obsessive promoters of religion are the most blind of people. Have you ever noticed that a religious person will get extremely violent when his religion is attacked? Accepting the possibility that an entire view of the world has until then been false, and that one really has no purpose in the world, is too much for some people. Religion, as far as I see it, is something that people cling to because they cannot accept the reality that one day they will die. They cling to it extremely tightly simply because the possibility of simply living a meaningless life and then dying is too terrifying for them to do otherwise.
Reality is meaningless. There is no higher purpose to it. We are simply another construct of evolution, masses of atoms clumped together in a way that time has dictated. We are a tremendous cosmic coincidence. There really is no meaning. If you die right now or in ten years, nothing will matter. If your girlfriend or your mother or father do die as well, it will mean nothing. The way we see concepts are simply our way of identifying clusters of atoms and in turn smaller particles and using them to our means. Our way of identifying objects, or people, has no firm basis in reality. It is simply a language we use, not to understand the world around us, but rather to use it for our biological purposes. Beauty is completely subjective. Do you think a HB 10 is really beautiful to anyone but us humans? We find her beautiful because her shapes and curves have been biologically ingrained to us as attractive...evolutionarilly she produces the best offspring. In reality she is just a clump of cosmic dust and in 100 years she will be dead.
People want to be remembered when they die. Why is this? People are clinging to life, they are afraid of death. Wanting to be remembered after death is a last ditch effort to be part of life. People simply can't accept that they are not the center of the universe, and that things will not change at all whether they die or not. You may say "things will change tremendously if a great leader dies before spreading his message across the world." How so? Reality will still be a bunch of atoms, there will still be unhappiness in the world, and the world will still be an unbelievably small part of a universe that most likely has absolutely no significance.
In short, there are many flaws in our manner of perceiving things that clearly block us off from reality. I believe that part of being happy is accepting reality as it is, and taking off the rose-colored glasses. Accepting these truths completely may be difficult for everyone, and some may refuse to believe it. I am not even saying this is reality, but I am pretty sure this is a much more realistic picture of it than we have ever been taught in high school or, I assume, college.
On to the flaws of our way of thinking in society.