Yeah, I meant basically the same thing. All human possessions, achievements and personalities are an illusion. They don't stay, and they're no part of who you really are either. You can't take your possessions or your job with you when you die. And what you consider as your personality is nothing more than random labels put on you that you accepted one day. The moment when one realizes this, one becomes a part of the infinite... And understands that there is no necessity to do or to become anything, just to be.
Yeah...it's how to live in that eddy amongst the tumult of modern life...that's what's hard
We get swept along with it all.....along with the mad carnaval
When Alan Watts asked in that clip how do you feel about thinking about you and everything you have and have done turning into dust....how do you feel about it?
I just feel release
I like the reflections of the romantic poet shelley on the impermanence of things in his poem Ozymandias:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
This reality we are in here...its only for a certain indeterminate amount of time, yet some people are hanging on so tight! They think: 'i must have power', 'i must have wealth', ' i must control everyone else'......and they create a culture that encourages other people to hang on really tight and before you know it we are all surrounded by people hanging on really tight and even the process of just living requires us to hang on tight.....
It's madness...
