Grubitude

It can only be realized, which is to say made real to you, by letting life live you for a while instead of trying to make yourself live life.

Somehow, since forever, humankind developed an urge to define, classify, categorize, structure, organize and pattern anything and everything, and that’s a beautiful thing actually – it serves our orientation, understanding and - to a certain degree – our cognitive faculty. This enabled us to create hundreds of different branches of sciences, which we use in all aspects of life to live a modern life. These branches of science provided manuals for almost every-thing and since they have mostly proven its functionality concerning all things, the organizational mind tried to expand the provision of manuals over all non-things too – especially over the human being. The big branch of social science with its representatives, psychology, sociology etc., is working hard to categorize valid facts about humans in general – and they’re doing a great job - for example, if we consider Abraham Maslow’s work, or especially the often to him falsely ascribed hierarchy of human needs. This model is actually a manual for people, a guide for maintaining well-being, true success and truly becoming a human being, but it has to be clarified, that it is just a rough one. Rough in the sense that that manual contains the main chapters of a book but not its content or just fractional parts of the content since becoming a real human being and maintaining well-being is always going to remain a pathless land.

Either you express or impress your emotions.

Feeling = Healing

“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

One thing I learned at some point is that growing old or growing tall is not the same as growing up. Being a grownup is about your level of wisdom and the size of your mind’s scope—and it turns out that it doesn’t especially correlate with age. I know some supremely wise older people, but there are also a lot of people my age who seem much wiser than their parents about a lot of things. After a certain age, growing up is about getting more and more grounded as well as clear-sighted, it is about overcoming our foggy mirror state or the superiority of our primitive drives, the reason for all kinds of totally illogical and embarrassingly short-sighted human behaviour, and that’s about the human being, not the age. Someone on a growth path whose fog thins as they age will become wiser with age, but I find that mostly the reverse happens with people who don’t “actively” grow—the fog hardens around them and they actually become even less conscious, and even more certain about everything, with age. When I think about people I know, I realize that my level of respect and admiration for a person is almost entirely in line with how wise and conscious a human being I feel they are. Therefore, the people I hold in “the highest” regard are the grownups in my life—and their ages completely vary.

This episode is the first podcast I ever recorded and when I listen to it, I listen to a nervous guy (myself, not Peter), who has no concept and a clue how to lead a more interesting conversation, BUT at least he is trying it and to be honest - I'm proud of that this younger version of myself was just trying out things :)

However, Peter is this type of dude with whom you have these typical deep house-party-kitchen-conversations about fucking everything for hours - something that directly burnt into my mind is when he told me, that there is no manual for people. I don't know, but for some reason to me personally this was kinda a breakthrough that lead me to view everybody as a single individual, helping me to reduce viewing people by deductive reasoning, that is to draw conclusion by projecting generality's character onto individuals.

Explaining Bruce Lee's legendary statement "I do not believe in styles anymore" and why his apparent "martial art form" Jeet Kune Do is not a martial art form with Bruce Lee's words.

This is dedicated to you.

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.“ – Bruce Lee

Former Uruguayan president Mujica advocates the necessity of the revolution of our mind – so did and still do many great thinkers of our era, be that Erich Fromm, Eckhart Tolle, Nelson Mandela, Jorge Bucay, Viktor Frankl, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dieter Lange, Bruce Lee, Khalil Gibran, Meister Eckhart, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Carrey, Alan Watts etc. – they all got to the root of the problems erring around the world: our conditioned mind.