#mind # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Readwise/Books/Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]] - [[Personal growth/The Experience]] - [[Pain]] - [[Depression]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/No mind]] - [[Good and Bad]] - [[Information fasting]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Peace ![[1671435642205_Desperation__by_Escher.jpg]] > S: When will desperation arise, Master? > M: When life becomes unbearable. When you can no longer bear the weight of the mind. When Freedom is the only choice that remains for you. It is then that desperation will arise. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![[1671434515423_Peace_from_mind__by_Escher.jpg]] > Because he lives his life from within the [[Mind|mind]]. Thus he lives under its weight. And, therefore, he is depressed. He continually is assaulted by the mind. He is a slave. He is constantly bombarded by the shrapnel of involuntary thoughts > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/7HWf0JSdb3eTqjTw7mYx1h?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture"></iframe> > S: How can I have Peace? > M: By living without the mind. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![[DALL·E 2022-08-04 21.48.57 - A man meditating under a mesmerizing calm sky surrounded by birds and flowers flying, painting by Van Gogh.png]] >[[Wisdom]] cannot be imparted. [[Wisdom]] that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] can be communicated, but not [[Wisdom]]. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]] ![[DALL·E 2022-08-04 21.49.38 - A man meditating under a mesmerizing calm sky surrounded by birds and flowers flying, painting by Van Gogh.png]] >If a man knows what **peace** is, and what [[Mind]] is, he cannot write a book entitled **Peace** of [[Mind]], because [[Mind]] is the cause of all un**peace**, all restlessness. **Peace** is when there is no [[Mind]]. So **peace** of [[Mind]]–no commodity like this exists. > ~ [[Osho]] ![[DALL·E 2022-08-04 21.53.43 - Two men face each other, their foreheads touching, their eyes closed, we can observe the soft wind caressing their skin, the magnificent sky illuminat.png]] <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/3jlqYmFlGJVdheoWpYQaMg?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture"></iframe>