Life isn't an RPG where you read the gamefaqs and do an ULTIMATE BUILD. Your sense of self is a story, it's a narrative we tell ourselves, something we've evolved so that we can simulate our environment over and over and over and over in our heads without losing the thread. The idea that you're a meat machine being steered through the world by some disembodied entity - that you happen to identify with - is an illusion.
I'm going to feel like a real tool for quoting this, but I like the line they added to the new Dune movie: "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
Now, this could be due to the fact that I've hed singular, terrible moments of energetically bad luck. Lots of them. And this sci-fi pseudo-dao is just a part of my personal narrative that keeps me from racking a slide on just the one bullet. But everyone, everyone everyone is going to have one of these moments. Dao isn't the solution, but resilience is part of one.
I'm going to feel like a real tool for quoting this, but I like the line they added to the new Dune movie: "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
Now, this could be due to the fact that I've hed singular, terrible moments of energetically bad luck. Lots of them. And this sci-fi pseudo-dao is just a part of my personal narrative that keeps me from racking a slide on just the one bullet. But everyone, everyone everyone is going to have one of these moments. Dao isn't the solution, but resilience is part of one.