Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?

[DrewNows]

Can't believe I haven't seen this TedTalks until now...so beautiful 

 

[Shin]

 

Because if it was easy I would have nothing to complain and gossip !

I would have to notice the banana in me, the quietness and expansive nature of my own bananaliness.

In other words I couldn't lie at myself and be miserable cause of my own self created suffering, which only exist when I resist what happens.

 

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Edited May 9, 2019 by Shin

[Edelweiss]

The guy is spot in in many ways. We have developed for ourselves a totally screwed-up paradigm on how we must live, work, be happy and how we even perceive the world. All this is totally contrived and unnatural.

In fact it is that the little, simple things truly make us happy and not the latest i-crap distracktor.

As he says, this unnatural, complicated and complex lifestyle is making us sick and unhappy. Had the same experience, university sucked badly but I endured with great pain. So is the job now and the pre-planned lifestyle that follows (which we were conditioned to follow). It is almost impossible to escape. Ridicule and alienation will follow. Simplify simplify, simplify. As Leo and many people suggest, we all should live in a cave for a while perhaps? It probably ain't too bad.

Natural Paradigm ---------------------------------------Contrived Paradigm

Freedom of time and movement ------------------Committments, (Wage)Slavery,

Independence (from gvt and corporations) and self reliance ----------Dependence and Taxation and need for "service industry"

Object, live below gvt radar ----------------------------Subject of Gvt (taxcow), follow all the rules or else

Community (to be) --------------------------------------Competing Individualism and materialism (appear to be)

That's why you see people (esp. children) happy in the poorest places of the world. They play with bottlecaps for hours and love it. They value and respect family, the experience of elders. They are not yet infected by consumerism. Look in places like Japan e.g. The famous Okinawa examples where people are outliving all others, partly through a big sense of community and that results in joy. Here I don't even know my neighbour. And we all have to re-locate miles from our home for a fkn JOB (just over broke). At least then we can afford a loan for this German car... (and be happy for a day).

If you have watched the disney film Coco, part of it's success is that it resonated with many people showing the simple lifestyle with focus on core values and respect for the family members. It is relationships after all what makes you happy (in the end and ideally earlier if you get it).

I heard a good saying once, never fall in love with something or someone who doesn't love you back.

Also I think there is a tendency that there is an odd non-linear relationship of general education and happiness. Surely, uneducated people get themselves into a lot of problems but mainly in a consumerism infected world where they chase the latest show offs. But in a rural situation they can also be very content and happy and human. Increasing education makes your thinking more complex, you can see it in the forum. There may be some value in it but I doubt that it helps much for your general levels of satisfaction.

Back to the basics?

[DrewNows]

@Edelweiss the system is pretty rigid but it can be enough to be aware of the factors which could very well be contributing to most of the suffering in western society. I would not be surprised to see some large shifts in certain areas in the not so distant future. It is funny because the only way it will happen is through the technology that has created much of the problems in the first place.  

[DrewNows]

@ShinGOD DAMMIT SHIN! 

[Shin]

10 minutes ago, DrewNows said:

@ShinGOD DAMMIT SHIN! 

 

Maybe I'm so smart that everyone thinks I'm dumb ?

Full circle ?

[DrewNows]

4 minutes ago, Shin said:

 

Maybe I'm so smart that everyone thinks I'm dumb ?

Full circle ?