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 "Non-subjective consciousness"?

Curse of the rich

In our journey to understand love and how we are all connected to one, Giving is only half of the equation.

Receiving is the part that is much less talked about. receiving from love and compassion is required to understand the full picture.

In the structure of capitalist society today, excess money is obtained through “process” at best, and greed, deceit and coercion at worst. The rich do not understand how deeply interdependent we are on each other through the interface of not money but compassion.

Of course , the access to money guarantees a minimum level of treatment, but money itself has a coercive vibe to it, one can never be sure whether the niceties they received are purely due to others “needing” their money or not.

It is therefore said that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Note: How Divine Madness can Reveal Mystical Truths - Plato | Ficino | Bruno ESOTERICA

How Divine Madness can Reveal Mystical Truths - Plato | Ficino | Bruno

ESOTERICA

Plato is perhaps the greatest philosopher of all time.  He is renowned for his wide-ranging philosophical dialogues which laid the groundwork for all subsequent western philosophers.  Despite his keen use of logic and argumentation, Plato also praises a form of ecstatic knowledge brought on by four forms of divine madness of mania.  Indeed, he views this form of knowledge as superior to even philosophy itself in allowing the soul to grasp the eternal truth itself.  What is this madness which leads to true genius?  In this episode of Esoterica we explore Plato's conception of the 'mania' and the inheritance of this concept in Renaissance Hermetic philosophers such as Marsilio Ficino, Cornelius Agrippa in his famous Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Giordano Bruno.

呢個肯定係講緊當年希臘嘅各式 mystery cults。 (片中有提）

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name 呢本書講緊古希臘嘅神秘宗教服用類近 LSD 嘅酒，而入教之人係唔可以對外人透露任何嘢嘅。柏拉圖作為當時大思想家，冇理由連呢個現像都唔知⋯ 但又唔可以同人講，唯有好含糊咁講下。

事實上睇返 (Claude 100-k 總結 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 轉述 (Plato on Knowledge in the))) Theaetetus ，柏拉圖用蘇格拉底把口否定咗幾個關於「知識」嘅理解之後，卻冇清楚講返佢自己對「知識」嘅定義。

梗係啦，唔講得吖嘛。

知識係(啪藥之後)由「源頭」直接傳送俾你思維嘅嘢嚟，確然真實但冇得向其他人驗證。

大概後嚟嘅 Gnosticism 都係袖呢條路線發展出嚟。

What would god do?

Apparently there is much power in imagining what being another would be like.

Incidentally, my most common thought on this is: what would god do?

In a sense my greatest hobby has always been "roleplaying god". After decades of doing so, I might have gotten pretty good at it now.

WoW vs Alan Watts

Now that I think of it, it seems playing a couple months of World of Warcraft is probably more instructive than listening to hours of Alan Watts talks.

Alan Watts talks about the Hindu concept of god playing all the parts in a drama, but that's only because they haven't invented MMORPGs yet.

So now, it's very easy to understand why a god would want to make millions of copies of itself that's weak and vulnerable once you play some MMORPG, reached max level, done everything to do in the game, and realize it's more fun to create an alt.. then another, and another... and if there aren't enough players in the world just multibox it 🙂

23 Nov

最後一日。因為夜晚要搭飛機，所以都冇咩 plan 行程，費事 pack 得太緊趕唔上飛機。

點知最後都好趕。

朝早懶洋洋咁擺低行李之後，發現舊同事Z原來喺淺草附近。我 msg 佢話「你俾個地點嚟，我三十分鐘就到」 XD

最後發現佢排緊隊拜神 （條人龍真係好長），咁我哋見條隊其實都會移動嘅，就跟住一齊排。

鷲神社酉の市，好似主要係求生意興隆之類。我就擺低咗五円，但應該就冇咩關於生意嘅嘢嘅欲望，純粹有緣就打下招呼咁。

之後一齊食咗牛舌燒和牛燒章魚燒，都好好味。尤其和牛燒真係好正。

之後走咗合羽橋道具街。點解佢哋知我啲喜好嘅呢？好彩/可惜係我行李爆晒，否則可能忍唔住手又買一堆嘢返去。

然後，就走去搵另一位舊同事 (舊上司)。嘿嘿，佢住間酒店就真係華麗到呢⋯ 我真係未見過咁浮誇嘅酒店。睇返啲房價，咦原來又唔算好貴咋喎。望佢個款其實似係搞 events （講座、開會、結婚、等等）多過係做酒店生意。

幾年冇見，傾咗一大輪計。之後就出發去機場喇。走嗰陣見到啲人係咁影相，望返，原來係日落嘅富士山。

去到機場。一般嚟講就冇嘢好講，但臨上機之前，我竟然因為走去七仔買支水，搞到差啲唔見晒啲行李同部新買嘅 iPad... -_-

我只能夠講，蘋果嘅 Find My 同 Separation Alerts 真係好有用⋯ 我差啲懶得認真 set 個 alert，好彩最後搵得返⋯

之後上機，吖，仲有個有趣故仔。

坐咗走廊位，窗口位係個後生女仔。

坐到咁上下，我見佢係咁向出面望，又用手機拍拍拍，就開口問佢有咩睇。

佢話：好多星星呀~

然後就俾我睇佢拍到嘅星星。

話說 iPhone 可以較曝光率然後告連續拍片去影啲暗嘢，只要你手夠定，理論上同相機長曝光嘅效果差唔多。

咁喺飛機呢，有個問題係飛機本身有啲光 （已經熄咗主要嘅燈但都係有少少光），啲玻璃會反光，另一個問題就係要搵啲嘢定住佢。最後我哋試完之後發現，用飛機窗上嘅窗幕，啱啱好可以遮晒啲光，兼且定住部機，而只要你唔拉晒落嚟，仲啱啱好可以俾你撳手機嘅掣，如下：

我部機影出嚟就咁樣：

但人哋用 iPhone 15 Pro Max... 真係一分錢一分貨：

靚到癲。

我最後偷咗佢張相，擺上 FB 呃 like :D 

佢俾我個 vibe 都係幾好人，如果我後生幾歲可能真係會同佢搭下訕傾下計，但目測應該會有代溝，都係算喇。

22 Nov

朝早去築地市場。一去到就見到個本願寺，打咗個卡。貌似係有啲學生活動，勁多中學生小妹妹。築地市場冇想像中咁特別，食咗個海膽三文魚子吞拿魚飯做早餐，啲海膽味道好鮮甜，係唔錯嘅。之後行咗啲少人啲嘅街（都係築地），基本上係街市嚟，買咗好多嘢。擺咗啲嘢去銀座嘅locker，然後出發再戰川越。

川越原來都好多人。尤其係多中學生（應該係school trip）。條商店街一直行半個鐘都仲有，真係好犀利。搵到間醬油雪糕台，但啲嘢好似冇上次食咁重醬油味。但啲雪糕係好食嘅。

喺附近食咗個烏冬加野菜天 天ぷらset，味道唔錯。係有少少飽，個雪糕本身有啲飽肚。之後返程唔想再行本個鐘商店街，就搭咗巴士。

下一站係池袋。本身池袋冇咩特別吸引，但老婆講咗咁多次總要去下。見網上介紹主要都係女性向嘅嘢，終於明白點解佢咁鍾意池袋。由於下午四點幾約咗接主席放工，所以都只能夠跑馬看花咁隨便去Pokémon 專門店望兩眼。我順手喺隔籬買咗啲snoopy 公仔。

之後趕去接主席放工。途經皇城東南，影咗幾張相。然後路經咗附近嘅公園。

主席帶咗我去返個園，入咗夜冇咁多嘢睇，都係頭先開心啲。然後去返皇城東面入口，近少少打多咗幾張卡。主席話係windows desktop嘅相，但我冇見過。夜晚個景都好靚。

之後搭巴士去咗東京鐵塔。主席話有個打卡位，我哋跟住網上某個指示喺停車場轉出嚟，果然見到有人喺度打卡。我哋打完卡之後，行返上樓梯，發現原來有成廿個人等緊，我哋唔覺意打晒尖⋯

之後去咗食飯。我話想食多啲菜，主席就搵咗間食 salad pasta 嘅西式餐廳 (我呢程食咗好多日式西嘢⋯) 唔覺意叫咗個時令秋季五式雜菌(菇) + Salmon 嘅意粉，意外地好味，完全唔覺得好大陣磨菇草味。（按：我平時係唔多鍾意食菇嘅）真係好神奇。

之後走咗去東京火車站打卡。主席話「東京站好似（香港嘅）大館呀」，我心諗你講乜鳩？之後見到實物嗰陣先至明，原來係講緊百幾年前嘅歐陸紅磚建築風格。

主席有少少不滿我好似覺得佢特登帶我嚟睇但我好似覺得件事好普通咁。我之後搵咗張相俾佢睇：

呢度係以前「屋企樓下」，但諗諗下原來我喺兩間法定古蹟返過學 :0) ，coed 略為新少少，好似仲未成為法定古蹟 (好似係二級歷史建築)。睇返香港啲歷史建築法定古蹟清單，發現我由細到大作為「街坊」咁日日經過嘅都真係唔少⋯