Comments on: Fear, Ego, Surrender http://www.elhazablaze.com/2011/11/fear-ego-surrender/ Elhaz Ablaze: Chaos Heathenism on the Web Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:33:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Von den Vielen Raben http://www.elhazablaze.com/2011/11/fear-ego-surrender/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 Von den Vielen Raben Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:16:51 +0000 http://www.elhazablaze.com/?p=2323#comment-3505 Brilliant and deeply reflective essay. It makes me think of Heidegger in "Being and Time", where he writes that existence is Dasein in the form of Mitdasein: that we are always with the other, with another Dasein. When ego, as unfulfilled self, dominates everything, Mitdasein degenerates into what Sartre famously said, "Hell is the other." But Sartre and his ilk, as rationalistic leftists, rejected the mystery of being and lost themselves in the process and became the damned. Yes, the gods do damn humans who choose to have their spirits rot with their corpses: at best they become hungry ghosts who hanker after what they can never have in the disembodied state. It is wise to take easy on oneself sometimes. I have been doing that myself and am finding it being able to cope better with adversities, which continue to manifest in one form or another in my life. You are right that dualism, as reification of duality among multiplicities, is the source of madness which is now becoming extremely pronounced in both advanced and developing economies as they teeter on the edge of the abyss of illusory being once again. Brilliant and deeply reflective essay. It makes me think of Heidegger in “Being and Time”, where he writes that existence is Dasein in the form of Mitdasein: that we are always with the other, with another Dasein. When ego, as unfulfilled self, dominates everything, Mitdasein degenerates into what Sartre famously said, “Hell is the other.” But Sartre and his ilk, as rationalistic leftists, rejected the mystery of being and lost themselves in the process and became the damned. Yes, the gods do damn humans who choose to have their spirits rot with their corpses: at best they become hungry ghosts who hanker after what they can never have in the disembodied state.

It is wise to take easy on oneself sometimes. I have been doing that myself and am finding it being able to cope better with adversities, which continue to manifest in one form or another in my life.

You are right that dualism, as reification of duality among multiplicities, is the source of madness which is now becoming extremely pronounced in both advanced and developing economies as they teeter on the edge of the abyss of illusory being once again.

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