Actually, on average, it strikes me about 5 to 6 times a day, and in seemingly 'normal' times too, and that number is growing. I imagine I will soon wake to my own raucous laughter over all the absurdities I will engage with throughout the coming hours....Ha!
Sadly, there are few this can be shared with....
My own view is that existence itself could be described as absurd, due to the simple fact that it is temporary. Existence is Reality's attempt to be what it is not: limited.
ReplyDeleteThere cannot be any such thing as limitation. That's totally absurd!
Thanks Willie,
ReplyDeleteMakes sense to me...
Mike
My interest is to emphasize that that is not the instrument, and there is no other instrument. And when once this hits you, dawns upon you that thought is not the instrument, and that there is no other instrument, then there is no need for you to find out if any other instrument is necessary. No need for any other instrument. This very same structure that we are using, the instrument which we are using, has in a very ingenious way invented all kinds of things like intuition, right insight, right this, that, and the other. And to say that through this very insight we have come to understand something is the stumbling block. All insights, however extraordinary they may be, are worthless, because it is thought that has created what we call insight, and through that it is maintaining its continuity and status quo. - UG Krishnamurti
ReplyDeleteThe Age of Technology is such an Age of Masquerade. An old Friend was angry when I said life is a cabaret. That was many years ago, but I haven't changed my position. A cabaret with pockets of tragic drama and fleeting moments of profound joy. Absurd? Quite so.
ReplyDeleteI hope this finds you well, my Friend.
U.G. simply sees past the conditioning.
ReplyDeleteI will be posting many of his quotes on FB Reductio ad Absurdum.
Thanks!
Mike
Thanks Nahnni,
ReplyDeleteI do believe many have arrived at the absurdum.
I suppose the main question is...
...is that okay.
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Mike
It's not so much that IT is absurd, but that the projections of IT are absurd.
ReplyDeleteDoes that sound absurd?
To answer your question, though. It is okay.