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The wise prefer peace to pleasure.
So goes a saying from my old master. The reason I realised is that while pleasure is great, it ends and so be must seek it again. Its nature is thus limited. Peace on the other hand doesn't decay it has no landscape and no boundaries. Unlike pleasure we cannot say we have it we don't have it. No seeking, no craving, no loss. It is endless. Its value is different from the highs and lows of pleasure.
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Arguing with someone about what Self was they said that "what something is" is its self. i.e. they expressed the essence - the substance that makes something what it is as the self. So a tree has a self because it is a tree and not a stone. I thought this a very clear expression of an idea on self so I note it here.
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They also told me a story about a butcher and a monk but I forget it.
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Personality can't be learned because two people with same experience can be effected differently. So we can't explain everything in terms of what has happened to people.
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Musing on the nature of Natural Beauty. Is it Real or Personal Taste?
"Relativity seems to fail when you essentialise the self... But if I or this themselves are relative then what foundation is there? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but where is the beholder? It is not that I create beauty or that I am independent of beauty because I myself am not fixed! It is not me that causes things to be beautiful while only I may find something beautiful. It is interdependent."
Think I am playing here with the extremes of Beauty either being Objective and independent of me, or Subjective and created in my own mind. In truth however it is the interaction of a thing with myself that creates the Beauty. It is only beautiful if I am there to see it, but I can only see it as beautiful if it is what it is.
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