| "Thousands of followers are listening to his teachings every day, follow his instructions every hour, but they are all falling leaves and don't have in themselves the lesson or a law." The path towards enlightenment is everything but rich. One realizing oneself is the utmost difficult task that one must do to achieve the Nirvana. One must be conscious and aware of his existence. One must be disturbed from his existence to the point of realizing that he is an excessive form in a world of forms and horizons. He is subject of his own actions and he drives every force in his life towards decisions that could benefit him or injure him. Wisdom is only achieved by experience and not by teachings because the vicissitudes that exalt the heart impregnate the scar of regret or satisfaction that no lesson can give. The best lessons are those that allure directly to the connection between the soul, these being one's awareness of nature. Listening to the river, listening to the air, listening to every voice and every nuance that fill the existential void are the best classes and can enrich someone even to the point of maximum peace and enlightenment. The decaying body and soul could be exiled from all its money and everything that it excels at, but no one can take away its awareness and at the end of the day that is all that counts and matters. You're rich but you don't even realize it. Richness is not measured by wealth but by the awareness of the soul. Being aware and completely dissociating yourself from the false luxuries, the meat and the commodities is what makes us rich even if it doesn't seem like it. "We may find consolation, or numbness, or may learn genuine skills with which we can deceive ourselves. But the fundamental thing, that Way of Ways, we do not find." One behooves toward inevitable wisdom if he follows every step stated above. He needs even to dissociate from the lessons and the false experiences that do not belong to him because the world wraps around bodies in a different way each and every time. The intoxicating cycle of existence suffocates the human condition to the point that one tries to escape it. And that is an impossibility. The human condition must accept his own existence whilst he is inevitably bound to it. One must be conscious of his own self and the praying and constant state of mind distracts him from doing it. While trying to reach spirituality one keeps imagining what does not belong to him and will never belong to him. The spiritual world is not only unreachable but also it wasn't made for men to comprehend. He then needs to attempt to distract from the unreachable goal and to focus on what has and will belong to him forever: his self. Focusing on the self also implies sharing the self, and this is the bonanza that life carries within itself. "I needed lust, the desire of possessions, vanity and the most shameful despair in order to learn how to surrender all resistance." Mankind is repulsive on the surface. One cannot help but wonder how have they been capable of developing a life that ignores everything that is able to suffice. Sufficiency is always appreciated as an illusion. The benevolent dictator of lust is the master of puppets that helps ignore truth. Mankind drives his conspicuousness towards the luxurious path that is not worth their attention, even less their sacrifice. They keep digging in the void of sand that will never end but that seems rewarding enough to keep trying. They're condemned to slavery but they don't even know it. Their reward fades instantly as none other form of matter does. Meanwhile the Samana smiles brushing away the sand from his path. Everything follows a cycle of existence. One exists in the present and ceases to exist in the past but with his present he continues to exist in the future. Every second and every crease in nature changes the existence so that creases end up building the ultimate model. One is the artist of his own model and one dominates his own responsibility of sculptor. The choices that the masterful sculptor embarks in is his own business. The changing river reflects everything that once belonged to the existence but that was lost in the tides of time. It is now our responsibility to choose a path that suffices the extreme weight of existence, something that compensates the quintessential existence. Something so as not to be a bulge in a never-ending plateau. "It must be strange to not have lived so far into existence." - Chuck Schuldiner  |
Kierkegaard produce una obra de carácter estético brillante a partir de un lenguaje fácil de seguir y evidentemente preparado. Fue un gran escritor y un filósofo impresionante. En esta obra, una de sus más conocidas, crea la distinción entre el esteta (o la filosofía estética) y el mundo tangible. El esteta es aquel que se alimenta de la inmediatez. Es aquel que busca el placer por encima de todo y lo prioriza por encima de otros vicios y experiencias que abarcan a la subjetividad humana. Consiste, precisamente, en un estilo de vida absolutamente hedonista y con amplio alcance de filosofía epicureísta. Si bien recordamos a Epicuro, sus obras nos alientan a buscar el placer dentro de las pequeñas virtudes de la vida, aquel que logra prescindir de lo que le hace daño e infeliz asegura una vida de beneficencia y definitivamente, privilegiada. En el esteta de Kierkegaard, si bien existe una clara reticencia de estas ideas, no es esencialmente epicureísmo. Juan, el seductor, es una metamorf...
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