Dependent Origination Chain of Misery “Why this craving? He was not playing an intellectual game, he was not reading scriptures or discussing scriptures. He was experimenting like a scientist: what is happening deep inside? A small little desire starts. You start liking it and how quickly it turns into craving. A small little desire to get rid of something which turns into aversion. Taṇhā in the language of those days — craving means craving turns into clinging. Small little desires turn into craving and craving into clinging.

The Origin of Confusion in Philosophical Debate 1.Philosophy being nothing else but THE STUDY OF WISDOM AND TRUTH, it may with reason be expected that those who have spent most time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness and evidence of knowledge, and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties than other men. […] But no sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow the light of a superior principle, to reason, meditate, and reflect on the nature of things, but a thousand scruples spring up in our minds concerning those things which before we seemed fully to comprehend. […] We are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation, till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn Scepticism.

Future Days by CAN Highest-rated krautrock album on RYM, and it’s shit. For my taste, it’s too monotonous without anything happening. The monotonous part isn’t the problem; it’s more that it’s just not interesting throughout. I didn’t like the nature-inspired ambient influences either, too soft.