Meaning and Magic

Tag: suffering

  • How to Prove to Yourself Once and for All that Pain is Not Suffering

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    Pain is not suffering. Don’t believe me? Good, you don’t have to…yet. But if you not only read what I say in this post, but try the strategies I recommend and allow yourself to notice what’s going on inside, you’ll get it. Now, the reason I’m talking about this at all is that people talk…

  • Brain burning

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    Here’s a thought experiment: If you could burn ten claims about the nature of the world into everyone’s brain, so that they truly grokked them, which ones would you choose?   My answers, stolen from all over the place, in rough order of perceived importance: Reality is not vague. The past is sunk. There is no failure,…