Suppose you are crossing Death Valley, trying to find a way back to the highway. Fortunately, you have a good paper picture.
As you walk, you scan the surrounding territory for landmarks. You will see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations and ditches. There are also some subtle things: pebbles, strong plants, dust that passes through snakes.
These smaller details will never appear on the map because they are not conducive to navigation, but they are certainly part of the territory, as do lizards, birds, forgotten stone arrows, bleached cattle bones and fossils of Mesozoic squid.
At least for now, you are also part of the territory, as well as your clothes and boots, cafeteria, Tilly Hat and the Death Valley map of the California Highway Department.
When you view the map, the area is located within the map. The map contains the entire Death Valley National Park – every section of the expressway, every point of interest, gas stations and a small village of residents. You extend the entire vastness into your hands. Somewhere there, probably south of the line on Highway 190.
But you are not there. You are here. Head up: You are on territory, in the baking sun, spots between the horizons – so are the maps. Nothing has never been but In fact, the territory and any map of existence are just another part of the above-mentioned territory.
Humans love maps so much that we often make this relationship backwards. Most of our lives are on various maps, placing ourselves and other objects on them. An example of an enterprise’s ledger is a kind of map – numbers in a spreadsheet cell represent face-to-face transactions, crates of products, and various physical reality. This mapping is very powerful. Ledgers give you a glimpse of the overall financial situation of a business; it is physically impossible to see immediately all the warehouses, stocks, employees, and purchases represented in that ledger number.
Even the movies are maps. We are watching symbols representing some hypothetical fields. Pretending to be someone else’s actor, filming something that didn’t actually happen. When we watch a pretend shot, ideally, we temporarily believe that it is not a fake. We think of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. We feel like he is actually controlled by Thuggee’s admirers, and maybe if a short round defends him, he will be himself again.
When my cat looks Row With me, she saw numbers that might be similar to hers, and sometimes she was fooled by that person and jumped around in front of the screen. But she lacks the full points of the film – she doesn’t see America get caught in a tragic conflict that will end with the helicopter evacuation of the famous Segund Embassy, which will produce numerous documentaries that visitors will recall images as they visit Washington’s Veterans Memorial. Zoe Cat just doesn’t know what I’m seeing here. She had no idea what was going on in the world!
But I poured it over. My cat adapted to the territory more firmly than I did. As a person, I lost my fun on the map, accidentally pretending to be a cowboy or a Victorian courtier, or enjoying the world from alternatives and news products. Cats are always sniffing the territory, studying it, rubbing their faces on it.
Humans can only do all these mappings and symbolic groceries, because we develop the ability to hallucinate, something we currently have no perception. We can summon our minds and mind images of territorials that are not even present elsewhere. We don’t have the money to make. Predators we have never met before. We have not suffered disappointment yet. Possibly and even impossible futures.
This ability allows us to build cities, establish ethical regulations and land on the moon, but also shows a huge responsibility: bewildered by what is there and what is only considered.
One problem with survival from the map is that ultimately we don’t know what’s going on. Life is full of crazy contradictions – one map says one thing is true, another says not – trying to live in an impossible world you believe in, which are depicted in some way.
For example, you can easily think that you can’t get sick at all now. You have too many things to do and too many people rely on you. I can’t get sick! This idea seems absolutely correct.
Then, you have another idea: I can get sick. Oh, no! This is true too! I can get sick! * and * I can’t get sick! It’s a land of pure contradictions, hell rocks and hard places, it’s a terrible place. A terrible territory!
Of course, your thoughts are maps, not territory. Territory is not contradictory. The actual territory is when you sit in a room and experience a psychological spasm of your mind thinking that you are in this hellish realm, in which the absolutely incorrect thing is absolutely real.
Thinking is of course useful, but because of the use of hallucinations as a reference for life, we inevitably confuse real assumptions and live a bad life over a period of time.
There is no way to avoid this confusion altogether: we need to mix the map and the area (at least a little bit) together to get the contents of the map. We can only enjoy the movie if we think Indiana Jones is real for at least a moment. We can only “see” the business if we believe in spreadsheet numbers in some way yes The warehouse is full of inventory.
The only defense is to practice treating maps (thinking) as another feature of the territory, just as your highway map is a physical thing in the desert. idea Own – Hallucinatory mental spasm – Just like the real realization you experience, like sounds and smells. What are their Description No experience. When you think of your boss being angry, you experience an idea, not your boss. Still, you may still feel real shame and fear.
One can deliberately practice his own thoughts: instant images or words that appear in or inside your mind – brief phantoms that trigger alarms, relief or other emotional and physical processes.
When you see the idea of what it is, they relax their minds even if only occasionally and don’t easily drag you into a stressful false hell.
How to realize an idea
Basically, thoughts can be classified as psychological image or psychological conversation. You either “view” or “hear” certain suggestions, and these phenomena are not actually here.
Think about Paris. Think of an apple. Thinking of the Queen’s groove Another bit the dust.
When you do this, you feel something. A real phenomenon. While some people don’t feel like they “see” psychological images or “hear” psychological conversations, you will at least be impressed by the incident, the Eiffel Tower or the Power Besling’s psychology is known.
Thoughts are just another sensory experience, and although it is very subtle and fast, you will notice it just like you can notice the bird zipper next to the window.
Try it when there are a few minutes:
Sit with your eyes closed, waiting for the next thought. Wait for the appearance of any sight or sound in your mind – the image, a song, any appearance that appears on your attention – just write it down. If it is visual, please say the word “look” to yourself. If it is hearing, please say the word “listen” to yourself. If you feel more, say the word “feel” to yourself. If you don’t know, just use these tags. Then watch, listen or feel the thought.
All you have to do is point out that an idea happened and you give it a simple label. This tag helps you maintain awareness of your mind, i.e. a brief sensory experience. That’s it – you’ve seen the idea of it without being confused by the subject. You treat the map as a map.
Then repeat the process. Wait for the next idea, just write it down and mark it. Do all this in an easy, factual way. You just want to notice this idea, As an ideain any way.
Most ideas only happen in a moment, and they are not very vivid. It could be just a flash of the image, or a blurry feeling of what is happening elsewhere. When you say label, it may have dissipated or turned to something else. It only takes a few seconds to notice this idea.
If you’re stuck in the subject, or are confused by what’s going on, delete it and start over: Wait for the next thought.
A few minutes of practice per day may give you a feeling of thinking – Life, It seems – a little “slackened”. Thinking may start to feel more local, smaller, less sticky and less likely to explode into more thinking. You might start to think of a given thought as a vortex of moments, with you some smoke in the room, rather than the real, tweeting thing in the “world”.
It turns out that the idea itself is small, with only a small territorial spot, like a small paper map held in the hand, in a landscape that is too large to achieve.
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