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- 20:22 slippy
- https://youtu.be/lNn18F51bfo?t=1139
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- I like this song quite a lot. It's very present.
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- I heard somebody recently discussing "final revelations" -- breakthroughs in understanding that allow us to finally reach 'truth'.
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- Buddhism, largely, does not support having "final revelations".
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- Because "final revelations" are generally coping devices for a suffering we've struggled to dissolve and it represents a proclamation that we shall not error in that way any longer, for, finally, we have found truth.
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- I think this song stands as powerful counterpoint to that entire approach.
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- It doesn't attempt to assert anything. It's just an exploration in the moment for a brief period of time.
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- When we can sit, listening to rain, enjoying an exploration, needing no decisive things, then we have achieved tranquility.
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- The meaning of a human life is equivalent to the sound of rain falling -- no more, no less.
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- Kestlah
- Shutup
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- That notion is deeply congruent with Alan Watts' teaching to see yourself as part of the universe with no separation, rather than 'in' the universe, as many Westerners feel.
- Kestlah
- I said shuttup
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- Sometimes, when the universe happens, it 'rains'.
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- Other times, when the universe happens, it 'peoples'.
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- It's funny to think of our entire life as a rain drop falling.
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- Think of all the things that we've stressed about and been unhappy about.
- Kestlah
- No
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- All the plans and ideas we've had about how things are 'supposed to be'.
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- But we were always just a drop of rain falling.
- Kestlah
- Shut your pie hole.
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- That makes me profoundly happy.
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- When you perceive the universe as 'raining' over there, and 'peopling' over here, you realize you're the universe.
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- You can look down at your body and see the fabric of the universe has turned, in a little environment, into a thing called 'you'.
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- It currently has that shape and a lot of big ideas about what it is, hehe.
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- The rain is you, too.
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- Part of yourself is falling, other parts of you have the ability to be self-aware and look at the falling parts of you.
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- When the person dies, the universe just reshapes itself into something different.
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- I forgot Kestlah is me.
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- I remember now.
- slippy leans in and kisses Kestlah on their forehead
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