Alternative Philosophy

What do we do in our daily lives that's fun? How do i/can you look at fun in your life  what do you reckon it means? This is what I'll be having a philosophical stab at in this episode. 

Important people are always ones with cool jobs or in positions of power. today you're gonna hear from someone in  a very different situation. How someone in a dead end job reconciles their big dreams with their very ordinary reality.

In this epsiode i have 4 quotes from the man himself a great and wise philosopher. I am just gonna unpack what he says in these quotes as much as i can. Share some eastern wisdom that is eerily help for modern life.

The quotes in this episode are as follows.

A man may steal and be punished as a thief, or perform good deeds and be commended, but the power of Consciousness, which remains only a witness, is neither thief nor good man.

 All troubles which we encounter in our life are due to treating the world as real.

A master of the world and a companion of the self simultaneously

The influences in the world are such as to make one feel weak feeble and fearful and to cause one to feed on rubbish which makes one week feeble and fearful only good company can undo such influences so that the natural essence of Truth consciousness and Bliss may prevail. Everyone is a lion every being is absolute. 

Everything is not a bleak as it seems honest!! 

I'm chatting about what nihilism is, how it appears in everyday life and how we can move past it as the glorious dollops of humanity that we are. Starting dark finishing strong.  

I'm hear to talk about energy not in fact juicing as you may have thought also about being comfortable with your own thoughts to not be at the mercy of your own memories and brain majigers. Come on in have a listen see if I'm talking sense.   

its in our lives so much and it lives in our heads rent free all the time. i'm chatting about why we don't need it and a few things that could help on the road to removing this mental weed from your sexy mind bushes. 

I have accumulated a wei box of philosophy nuggets that i will be sharing with you in this episode. There is no overriding lesson no vein that connects all these thoughts except philosophy i guess. Come in and join in my musings with me. 

There is an epic quote from a Shakespearean play said by the character Jacques we are going to talk about it. There will also be tangents. 

I'm going to go through one of the things that I think trips up most people when learning philosophy and why this is such a hard problem to navigate in modern life. 

Is my title mysterious? Is my description unhelpful and vague? Ohhh no, ohhh my I guess that means you'll have to give it a listen to understand what it is about. 

On this episode we pool our collective brain jellies to try and find the deepest answer we can about evil and where it comes from. Fuel your inner emo and join us.