This subject matter is about being human. It's imprecise, organic, full of uncertainty, dynamic and chaotic. That being said, I have successfully gone through the rabbit hole of career to McJob to hobby to Mission in life. I'm here to tell you what I saw and what I learned. For those trying to understand if their hobby is their Mission in life, my hope is that this information will guide you on your own journey, if you choose to embark on it, that is. When you reach a certain stage of life, you start to question your priorities and your beliefs. That career you worked so hard to achieve, starts to feel like a “McJob” and you begin to crave meaningful work that will nourish your soul. At this point, many turn to their hobbies as a source of potentially meaningful work. The problem is that the hobby is being used as a replacement for one's life's purpose or what I call the Mission in life. In this article I want to help you understand the difference between a hobby and your Mission in life. I have been searching for something since I was a child. What I was searching for, I didn't know, but I was determined to find it. I suspect I’m not alone in this life-long quest. This abiding need to find the answer is shared by people around the world, some aware of it while others not. Science fiction has long played with the notion that a futuristic society will have figured out the necessary technology to enable the transfer of a person's mind to a storage device where that person can live forever. Can a person's mind be uploaded into a machine? Is it even plausible to consider such an idea? How would one do it? Can it be done? I'm here to tell you that, yes, it can be done. You can indeed transfer the identity of a person into a computer. In this series of articles I will explain how to do it. This post has been moved to the primary EGO Hacking site. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/1EzXEtVExit From Eden. What The Hell Does That Mean?Explaining in modern language the wisdom of spiritual teachers across the ages. What makes a human being different from the other living creatures on this planet? If an alien spaceship hovered above the earth and studied all mammals, there would be nothing obvious about the human anatomy to differentiate it from other animals. We (mammals) have a head, limbs, two eyes, internal organs, respiratory system, a digestive system, we sleep, etc What the aliens would quickly notice though is that the human species is operating with a different set of rules. The operating system of the human mind is very different from the rest of the animal kingdom. If the aliens were able to probe our minds, which if they can come to earth in a spaceship they surely have the technology to read our minds, then they would discover the ... What The Hell Does That Mean?Explaining in modern language the wisdom of spiritual teachers across the ages.
To "Know Thyself". This quote originates from the Ancient Greeks and is attributed to Socrates. So what the hell does it mean? To "know yourself" refers to knowing your true self, i.e. your essential nature, a.k.a who you truly are. It means you have passed the ego stage of life (what I call Phase I) and have progress into inner understanding. Graduating from external materialistic knowledge to internal knowing (Phase II). Last night, my wife and I had some free time without the kids. We were both craving Indian food so we chose a nearby Indian restaurant that we had been to many years ago. We grabbed a bottle of wine and got in the car.
On the drive there, we passed by a Vietnamese restaurant that caught our attention because we had never noticed it before, and it was also a bring-your-own-wine. As we approached the Indian restaurant, only 1 parking spot was available. Before turning into the parking lot, I courteously allowed a car coming from the opposite direction, to pass before I turned in. However, the car did not simply pass by as I was expecting it to do, but instead turned towards the restaurant and took the last parking spot. Frustrated, I ended up parking on the street not too far away, not a big deal. What The Hell Does That Mean?Explaining in modern language the wisdom of spiritual teachers across the ages.
This quote is from Marcus Aurelius "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." This one is huge! This wisdom is echoed in all spiritual teachings. The world's happiness and suffering emanate from this truth. I will spend a lot of time on this idea on EGO Hacking. What you think is real is nothing but your interpretation of reality. I know it looks real to you but nothing out there is good or bad, right or wrong. Nature does not know "right" from "wrong", "good" from "bad", these are human concepts. What The Hell Does That Mean?Explaining in modern language the wisdom of spiritual teachers across the ages.
The original passage is "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."[1] The understanding of meek is docile, gentile, passive, etc. So therefore most people interpret this as meaning, "entitled are the passive, for they shall take over the world." However, that's not what it really means. |