In an ideal realm, we would be Jesus-like in our behaviour.
In fact, a person whose mind isn't filled with impurities can notice this in themselves. In their daydreams, such people fantasise about loving, caring, forgiving, patience and heroism in general.
In fact, a person whose mind isn't filled with impurities can notice this in themselves. In their daydreams, such people fantasise about loving, caring, forgiving, patience and heroism in general.
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1333400502395146247
Patience is arguably the master virtue, because all anger, hatred, cowardice, falsehood etc, is the result of taking a shortcut.
In the material world, we have skin in the game (i.e. will-to-life), and so we take the shortest route to our satisfaction by lying, being angry, etc.
In the material world, we have skin in the game (i.e. will-to-life), and so we take the shortest route to our satisfaction by lying, being angry, etc.
Christ so little instantiated the will-to-life that he embodied the ideal in the material world.
I remember I would fantasise about greeting people with my dearest affection, but then they would be late, or the train would be delayed, and my mood was spoiled so my greeting turned out to be dismissive (if not slightly abrasive)
The material world is the friction on ideality.
The material world is the friction on ideality.
To allow the ideal full expression, you have to be completely indifferent to the material world's failures. This is supremely difficult, the challenge of a lifetime.
It's particularly difficult when someone is unfairly angry with you, and treats you like an object.
It's particularly difficult when someone is unfairly angry with you, and treats you like an object.
In such cases, I try to realise that their anger is the result of their failure, suffering and moral shortcoming; i.e. a person who treats you unfairly has a deluded worldview, and suffers in the long-term.
If you realise this, you become far more patient with them.
If you realise this, you become far more patient with them.
This is nearly always the correct perspective in everyday life. Sometimes, however, you simply need to prevail, and flipping a table becomes appropriate so to speak.
The desire to indulge anger is explained by another of my threads. Namely, it being the easier pre-made animal route which allows you temporary freedom from confinement.
See e.g.
See e.g.
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1328734529201254408
The fact that this easy ready-made route exists tends you toward taking it. This is the fundamental nature of temptation (and ultimately delusion). The easier-to-think, easily available precedent offers a quick freedom.
By indulging it, you become Will incarnate. By *perceiving* this predicament correctly, you become Representation.
https://twitter.com/tom_username_/status/1329861316690014209
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