“I understand you. You think that pain is bad, that suffering is bad. You think that our way is to go beyond suffering, but there is no end to suffering. When I was young I felt very bad for all the suffering that people have. But now I don’t feel so bad. Now I see suffering as inescapable. Now I see that suffering is beautiful. You must suffer more.”
David Chadwick; The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

What alone can be our doctrine? That no one gives man his qualities--neither God, nor society, nor his parents and ancestors, nor he himself. (The nonsense of the last idea was taught as "intelligible freedom" by Kant--perhaps by Plato already.) No one is responsible for man's being there at all, for his being such-and-such, or for his being in these circumstances or in this environment. The fatality of his essence is not to be disentangled from the fatality of all that has been and will be. Man is not the effect of some special purpose, of a will, an end; nor is he the object of an attempt to attain an "ideal of humanity" or an "ideal of happiness" or an "ideal of morality." It is absurd to wish to devolve one's essence on some end or other.

We have invented the concept of "end":
in reality there is no end. [text formatting mine]

[...] The concept of "God" was until now the greatest objection to existence. We deny God, we deny the responsibility in God: only thereby do we redeem the world.
F. Nietzsche; the Four Great Errors(twilight of the idols)

“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
S. Suzuki; Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

the only God i believe in and endorse lives inside a machine.

please.

Bjork Ozzyman

Thinking about the object of desire

Deleuze? More like he never leuze

this is #True

add this and we're having a blast.

Uhhhh

I don’t make the rules, the machine does.

HAIIII