Michele Pasin / Quotes

Chi prega gli dèi solo nel bisogno

Pur rappresentando gli interessi dei samurai e dei nobili, Yoshimasa risulta credibile nello scagliarsi contro gli opportunisti, «i quali pregano il Buddha o gli dèi solo in difficoltà». Certe attitudini erano diffuse nella religione giapponese, spesso basata sul tornaconto e interessi personali. Yoshimasa deplora l’egoismo in tutte le sue forme. Anche chi non si accontenta della propria posizione, violando il principio confuciano della giustizia, si mostra ambizioso e velleitario.

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#religion #ego #confucianism

All winners need losers, all saints need sinners

Saints have always declared themselves as abject sinners—through recognition that their aspiration to be saintly is motivated by the worst of all sins…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #pride #ego #game #people #unselfishness

Anattā, the Buddhist no-self

Like any other old and geographically dispersed belief system, Buddhism ceased to be a singular system of thought many centuries ago. It is therefore…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #Buddhism #self #ego

Bicycle Day and the origin of the trip

Soon after he ingested the drug, his entire world began to transform—the colors, the forms—and he felt his ego begin to dissolve. Hofmann grew afraid he had…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #psychedelics #time #ego #history

Blacking out in the bath

Finally, I washed them down with a wineglass of water and repacked the rest in the foil. I had barely stashed it away when the trip started to come on. I had…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #fear #ego #risk

Don't try to get rid of the ego-sensation

Remember, above all, that an experience of this kind cannot be forced or made to happen by any act of your fictitious “will,” except insofar as repeated…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #music #ego #exercise #sensation #awakening

Ecstasy and the world made of love

It’s a long time ago now, but the runaway success of the first warehouse parties in the 1980s had seemed to promise a fresh cultural and political…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #drugs #love #ego #fear #culture