[split] The paucity (scarcity) of Honesty

[manniz]

death has a greater bearing on you and is but a ripple in a pond for me. I

I used to feel so special about making such statements. I even wrote a book based on it. Thankfully, no one read it.

All that - "death is just a ripple in pound", "I can watch billions die." All that stuff is generic. It is not really intellectually or spritiually that special. It is easy.

Hard work is to see others' perspectives. To see others' perspectives on death, life and STS. It would be easy to watch millions/billions die, but harder to justify the plight of their loved ones, the millions left behind, millions of injured left behind, whole societies disintegrated.

It is easy to say "I am the existence." Understanding comprehensively that every single living thing you see is also "I am the existence" is the harder part. There is a reason that spiritual path is so long, and has numerous lives and deaths in it.

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I have died many, many, many times, another would be tedious but not unheard of, but that is entirely besides the point.

An absolutely epic quote, and one that would be found in very few places aside from b4th. Thank you for making my morning!

Aha

Unbound also seems like the type, who would back up his quotes too. The whole living your philosophy thing.

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I have learned with time that many aspects of STO are hard. I now have new found respect for the loving, honest and the humble. Which means I have a new found respect for this forum too.

ps: STS is very hard work too. Even amongst STS, you have the generic STS, who finds things "cool", who thinks everything it does or says is special, the world is just not appreciating the specialhood yet. Then, there is the intelligent STS, who finds purpose in things, who is the patient, clever one, who is willing to work hard rather than relying on grand statements. So yeah, both STO and STS work is hard.