Nihilist needs help!

[rachMiel]

10 hours ago, Letho said:

@rachMiel you're not a nihilist you're a human being   

Thanks for the reminder that 'nihilism' is a conceptual construct, a thought form. When your world is inhabited by thought forms, things get weird, tulpas and egregores notwithstanding. I tend to live in thought rather than 'raw experience.' And things do get weird. 

[rachMiel]

11 hours ago, LastThursday said:

Maybe look for an absolute that you can rely on 

I doubt this is possible anymore for me. (Was once upon a time, I had my 'masters.') The ship has sailed. It's relative all the way up, all the way down. 

The only way out of my nihilist cul de sac I currently see is love. (Pure awareness/consciousness does little for me.) Love may or may not be an absolute, but it's perhaps as close to divine as unenlighteneds like me get. 

[Letho]

@rachMiel well, to be specific it's not just a thought form, it's literally screwing with your identity. Ground yourself in that. Life is short man, it's not fun to let this stuff get the better of you.

Merry Christmas, sincerely. Being away from the monotony of the middle of the year can make it easier for us to resonate with the parts of life that ground us in our humanity 🌲🌎.

Edited Thursday at 01:29 AM by Letho

[Ajay0]

On 12/17/2024 at 9:10 PM, rachMiel said:

@Ajay0 Thanks for the response. What is the relationship between virtue and love? Is love the antidote for nihilist despair? 

You are welcome. 

Since love is a higher state of consciousness , obviously virtue or value-based conduct is a means forward to achieve this state.

These sayings can bring perspective in this regard...

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To let go of desires you have to follow a certain code of conduct. This is the manure by which the rose of love will blossom. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love is a state of mind where self interests are removed. The mind dwells in its natural state of sat-chit-ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss. Love is not created; it is a mental state which develops by living a disciplined life and developing positive qualities. Human ego is very attracted to negative qualities, so it needs much austerity to develop positive qualities. ~ Baba Hari Dass

 

 

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Is love the antidote for nihilist despair? 

 

 As for love being an antidote to nihilist despair, I would say that nihilist despair arises from the perception that the universe or existence is meaningless, random and chaotic. If you hold on to such a conditioned reality tunnel as a fact of life, despair is naturally and obviously the result.

I had already stated that nihilism is a short-sighted perspective that does not take into account the phenomenon of Buddhahood or enlightenment (present in various religions like sufism, hinduism, buddhism, jainism, taoism.) and is based on a superficial, uni-dimensional understanding of reality .

It is a philosophy that arose in the western civilization which does not have the antiquity of the eastern.

I would exhort you to observe and study more world philosophies instead of settling for a certain segment of the philosophical spectrum.

'A few observations and much reasoning leads to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.' ~ .Alexis Carrell

Edited Thursday at 07:57 AM by Ajay0