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  hardie karges 6:14 am on September 4, 2016 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Buddhism ( 437 ), ego ( 33 ), Existence ( 3 ), Freud ( 4 ), PSYCHOLOGY, religion ( 161 )   

  Buddhism, Existenz, Ego and the Three-Body Problem… 

  The ultimate conundrum of life is that we didn’t ask to be born. The ultimate responsibility is that we not dare to risk death, either. For that we never know the reason why, but simply that it—life—is given, and things given must be accepted in the spirit with which they are given, not without question, but definitely without fail…

  Yet we do risk death, deliberately, repeatedly and with great flair, and often for no good reason. Up until less than a hundred years ago, as hard as it is to believe, people wanted to go to war, to fight, to kill, and this was the high point in many a young man’s life—or death! We look at the past with a mixture of wonder and agony at all the gratuitous violence and senseless destruction without realizing that the key to that phenomenon is right within us—and largely curable… (More …)

   

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  hardie karges 7:35 am on May 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Buddhism ( 437 ), CHRISTIANITY ( 161 ), depression ( 6 ), PSYCHOLOGY   

  Getting Religion, Losing Depression—Motivational Mix and Match… 

  

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  Depression is very over-rated, in my opinion, which means that I don’t much believe in it, and not for lack of trying—and crying.  It’s too easy.  It’s a cop-out, unless you ARE truly depressed, of course, in some clinically measurable way, i.e. most likely chemical (but that’s never been proven).  Unhappiness, while not simple, is simply not depression, even when one is ‘minor’ and the other ‘major’.  There’s a qualitative difference IMHO.

  ‘Unhappiness’ means you need to make some changes in your life, not in your prescription—motivational therapy optional.  That is not always easy, of course, and may involve some compromises you never imagined making.  Fortunately, in this transient age, impermanence is currency, and you can always go back to from where you came.  Keep that bizniz card in your pocket and an open door to your back.  (More …)
   
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  hardie karges 10:47 am on April 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BUSINESS ( 2 ), PSYCHOLOGY   

  BIZNIZ ADDICT 

  Business is like a limb that’s been amputated, but I still feel it there, erect and at attention, counting its money like some junkie who can’t make a move without ensuring that there’s another carrot lined up and waiting to mark the path and give meaning to life. I’ll never be an artist if I can’t get the monkey of business off my back so that I can concentrate on some creative work, get my eyes off the prize and concentrate on the task at hand. The bottom line rules like the line of her bottom used to, the thin red line of fulfillment, an innate idea of something warm associated with form. Business is a reflex action, a nervous tick, a cheap whore luring with vacuous charms.