Have you ever thought about all the ways in which you perhaps daily impose your will on natural/physical/biological intelligence?
When you eat, do you pay attention to whether the food gives your body pleasure, vitality, vigor? Or do you just expect your body to digest whatever you choose?
Is your home arranged in a way that your body finds comforting, nourishing, supportive?
Do you rest when you're tired, or do you drink a Red Bull?
Do you ever give yourself time to feel what you're feeling? Or do you think that some of your feelings are wrong, bad, childish, or irrelevant, and so you ignore them?
When you look in the mirror, do you appreciate your body, or do you criticize it?
Do you think that your body is what holds you back from being a good person? Do you follow spiritual disciplines aimed at making yourself good?
Do you put toxic chemicals on your body with the idea of making it "smell good?"
Do you put toxic chemicals on your lawn so that it will "look good?" Do you think grass is the most useful thing to grow on your land? If yes, why? If no, why?
Here's the point I'm trying to make, courtesy of an ad agency. Ad agencies, in my experience, tend to be very big on the idea of humans imposing their will on natural/physical/biological intelligence.
When you eat, do you pay attention to whether the food gives your body pleasure, vitality, vigor? Or do you just expect your body to digest whatever you choose?
Is your home arranged in a way that your body finds comforting, nourishing, supportive?
Do you rest when you're tired, or do you drink a Red Bull?
Do you ever give yourself time to feel what you're feeling? Or do you think that some of your feelings are wrong, bad, childish, or irrelevant, and so you ignore them?
When you look in the mirror, do you appreciate your body, or do you criticize it?
Do you think that your body is what holds you back from being a good person? Do you follow spiritual disciplines aimed at making yourself good?
Do you put toxic chemicals on your body with the idea of making it "smell good?"
Do you put toxic chemicals on your lawn so that it will "look good?" Do you think grass is the most useful thing to grow on your land? If yes, why? If no, why?
Here's the point I'm trying to make, courtesy of an ad agency. Ad agencies, in my experience, tend to be very big on the idea of humans imposing their will on natural/physical/biological intelligence.
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Human will is your birthright and I'm not suggesting that you give it up.
I'm suggesting that you become aware of how you impose your will on natural/physical/biological intelligence.
Human will is your birthright and I'm not suggesting that you give it up.
I'm suggesting that you become aware of how you impose your will on natural/physical/biological intelligence.
When you become aware, you are in a position to start thinking about how you can use your will to begin co-operating with natural/physical/biological intelligence. It wants to co-operate with you. When the co-operation begins, your life moves away from suffering, and towards pleasure.
What would topiary collaboratively created with natural/physical/biological intelligence look like?
What would topiary collaboratively created with natural/physical/biological intelligence look like?
