Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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The problem isn't AI, it's the godless corporate scumbags who have no qualms about anything they do in life, who don't believe in empathy or introspection, who will use AI to enslave you and your children.
The people in charge of AI are not serious human beings. They are shallow as a puddle. Who have the political views as sophisticated as teenage boys and anonymous Redditors. Who will lie, cheat, and steal for an extra billion. Egotistical libertarians whose idea of liberty is that they get to do whatever they want while the rest of us serve them.
The problem is not AI, the problem is the lack of humanity in the humans pushing it. Mechanical workaholic humans pushing for a break-neck-pace of mechanizing humanity, just because they don't know anything better to do.
I used to work much harder and longer because I believed that I had to create things in order to feel meaningful. After Awakening that illusion has been dispelled to the point where it is hard to work as hard as I used to, because I’m conscious that it doesn’t ultimately matter. No amount or quality of work will ever fulfill or complete me. That is an illusion I used to live under.
Working hard is a kind of illusion, self-deception. Why are you working so hard? What do you think it’s going to do for you? You think work is going to make you happy? No. No amount nor quality of work you do will ever make you happy. No work will ever be enough. You can work yourself for 60 years, you can produce masterpieces that wow the world and make you world-famous, but at the end of the day, when you are alone at home in a room by yourself, not working, you will feel incomplete and unhappy.
Creative work is a kind of delusion and addiction. In fact, that work is just an excuse to not sit down and learn to be happy with nothing. Needing to work to be happy is not happiness, it is just a distraction from the painful work of sitting and learning to be happy doing nothing. How many millions of artists and creatives live under the delusion that their art, their workaholism, is making them happy? No! It’s not. It’s a distraction from the real spiritual work. If you can’t be happy doing nothing, you are incapable of happiness.
Do not mistake work or busyness for happiness. True happiness is not something you earn by working real hard. True happiness is free. It requires nothing at all. A child does not need to produce a brilliant work of art to be happy. A child is happy for no reason at all. This also explains why most artists are so tortured, depressed, and unhappy. You cannot earn happiness by working harder, because happiness is free. Happiness is so free that most people feel it is unfair or wrong to just be happy for no reason at all. Most people have been conditioned to only allow themselves to feel happy once they do something extraordinary to earn it. This is simply a self-imposed limit. Happiness is a very counter-intuitive thing. The more you try to earn it, the less happy you'll be.
Are you able to be happy without working? That is the true test of happiness. You can see that most fail the test. The more productive, successful, and famous they are, the worse they fail the test. Which is why the most successful people are never truly happy. You cannot buy happiness with success! Happiness is way too profound for such human games. Most successful people are just using work to hide from themselves their fundamental unhappiness. But they deceive themselves with rationalizations of how working makes them happy. No. Working hard leaves no time to sit alone with nothingness and face your inner demons. If a workaholic was forced to sit still, his inner demons would eat him alive. Which is why they are proud of their workaholism. That pride is the self-deception.
Chill out. Why are you working so hard? What are you trying to earn? Who are you trying to please?
Writing an epic book, making a blockbuster film, building a trillion dollar business, making it big, becoming world-famous, dominating Wall Street, conquering Europe, sleeping with a thousand women, changing the whole world, colonizing Mars, etc. Fundamentally, none of this will make you happy. Watch out for that illusion. Those are exciting distractions from true happiness.
Happiness takes work, but not that kind of work. Mindfulness work.
