/lit/ - Literature

>>20063223
I am not a lip reciter so I say despite listening I do not understand.
I trust you but I do not understand you and I must fashion a fine tooth comb approach to studying the teaching. It's like being told the answers to a test that I have not studied for.
This "but you believe in a self" yes like I would move and walk wrong from a lifetime conditioned. It's like I believe my arms and legs. I believe I can walk. This new condition takes very long to redirect towards non self awareness. The data that feeds my limbs is a phantom of references for wires that do not enter do not enervate what they claim to in each illusory synapse. Externalizing one's drives is the opposite of the internal Freudian digging. It requires indefinite captures of many distances and realms. It requires volumes of investigation and analysis. It calls to action. But if that action is put aside, I need a self like a shelf. Even as a contrivance and convenience. But I remember this is but a convention for something that has passed. Something that is no longer so and has no term or reference to capture in right speech anymore. I watch the flame. Watch it burn. I need my shadows.

>>20003005
Life in the cave will never be as good as outside the cave. Inside the cave, the only life you're guaranteed is the ones the shadow people decide for you. Outside the cave, life is whatever you make of it.