🤔 All Metaphysics on a 'Painless Life' 🤔

It's one of those videos that will probably piss people off. But, if you care about facts, logic, and wisdom, then that's not really important. I'm not interested in religion, but it has to be said regarding physical suffering, and nobody likes physical suffering, that there is not any passage in any text, it doesn't matter what it is, the Gita, the Rig Veda, the Sama Veda, Digha Nikaya, Majjhima, Samyutta Nikaya, Angottara Nikaya, Kodaka Nikaya, the Upanishads, the works of Plotinus, Plato, Proclus, Numenius, Sirianus, Iamblichus, Jacob, Burma, the Periphyseum, and not one of them ever teaches that regardless of wisdom, or lack thereof, specifically wisdom, that there's any end to physical suffering. Not one of them. Oh, man, when you mention an undeniable fact like that, it pisses people off. They say, well, I'm interested in lessening my suffering. It's like, well, there are many ways to lessen it, and there are ways to see past it, obviously so. If you focus on it, and of course there are many mental techniques, I'm not denying this, okay? Someone's going to say, sure there are, you know, when I do A, B, C, X, Y, Z thing, then it lessens my suffering. And there are monks and other people, including, and I've seen these parade rituals where they'll, you know, stick things through either side of their cheek, and they'll not experience anything. And this is undeniable. Also, too, people that get into suspension, well, actually, you know, it's kind of grotesque. You know, they'll hang from trees and whatnot from their back for, you know, giant, I don't need to mention that. So there are ways to suppress this, but that's not what I'm actually talking about. And I had to mention that because someone would have attacked me on this video for that. Sure, there are ways. You know, I could do this technique or that technique, and I'm able to suppress it to a certain degree. This is true for a short period of time, but there is never any mention in any passage of the end of physical suffering for the born, those who are embodied. No mention is ever made of the end of physical suffering. People use, and I'm not interested in ever discussing religion, people use religion and certain techniques to have a better life. And the point of this video is the point of the fact that all true monistic metaphysics, every one of them, has never taught about having a better this life, but about disobjectification and pulling away from the false identity of this psychophysical existence. In the case of, and in any translation too, by the way, in the case of Majjhima Nikkei or Gautama, and I wrote a little booklet about this, where he hit the Sukaramadava, that's an ancient Pali term. His last hours, oh Gautama there, I don't care what you think about original Buddhism or not, it doesn't make any difference one way or the other, doubled over in pain, retching, vomiting, you know, extremes. So, the very person that all these people look up to across the world, various areas of Southeast Asia and whatnot, there's no end to physical suffering. You know, this person just a couple hours, actually less than a couple hours, you know, before physically passing away was in extreme pain. People say, well, pain is an illusion. Well, when there is embodiment present, you know, then there is pain. If you're completely disobjectified, there is still no end to physical suffering. This body is not connected to the transcendence of disobjectification of the spirit of that individual. This person is, as an example, completely transcended, no longer identifying with this physical body. The physical body is still the physical body. There is never a mention in any monistic metaphysical text, whether it be the Gita, the Vedas, the Nikayas, none of them, where entity, A, B, C, X, Y, Z, is completely transcended and no longer identifies. You know, wisdom has been climaxed where the physical body is not, you know, undergoing, you know, extreme pains and suffering and retching, vomiting. There's no connection there. And when you mention that fact, it really pisses people off. And I don't know why it pisses them off, because they want to have a comfy life. You know, I'm going to do this so I'm not so stressed out. Well, you know, I understand that. Everybody wants less stress. I would like to stop working to five o'clock in the morning every night and, you know, working seven days a week. And I would like to, I don't know, go do things that I'm not able to do. You know, these things are stressors in life. They don't really bother me so much, what I kind of do to a certain extent. The point I'm trying to make is that people are confused so fundamentally. When you mention this fact, they get angry. They don't realize because they're completely embroiled in the fact that they think they are that creature in the mirror once again. You know, you are not your beliefs and you're not that psychophysical entity in the mirror. And no matter how much wisdom is present or not present, this would be, of course, no wisdom, where one completely identifies with the psychophysical. And this would be complete wisdom, the absolute fulfillment of which, you know, where there is no longer identity with this. And yet, of course, we have the case, as the passage goes, the dead man walking. The dead man walking means someone who has completely transcended identity with the psychophysical existence, yet is still alive. In other words, there is still this animated meat sack, this Wi-Fi enabled meat sack walking around, as I've coined it. But physical suffering is not transcendable, it is not escapable, not for anybody, regardless of wisdom. When this is present, that is present. With all life, which is, of course, and by the way, animal means as I saw, a human being, of course, is an in-souled body. There is no escape to physical suffering. There is no mention in any metaphysical text of an end to physical suffering. And that is not my opinion, or view, or belief. It's a demonstrable fact, and it is nowhere present within any teachings at all. If any entity or book taught that, it would be ludicrously ignorant and stupid, because it's completely impossible. It's impassable. A living entity is subject to physical suffering with no exemptions whatsoever. None. You can even make reference to a religious text, which I'm not interested in religions or discussing, or a person, so-and-so, which I'm not going to name, there's no need to upset any religion, was hammered up, whether you believe that or not. There's still great suffering and pain there. There's no end to suffering for anybody. And every time I mention this in the past, which has been for decades, it pisses people off, because they somehow, on many levels, think that they're doing this practice, A-B-C-X-Y-Z, for the alleviation of suffering. And they can rise above it to a certain extent, and not focus on it, and not be so bothered by it. This is undeniable. I'm not denying that at all. I wanted to mention that, because it's a really important point. Because when you point out that fact, and people realize that fact, it's like, well, then what, therefore, is the methodology's ultimate goal? If I can't eliminate out physical suffering, then what am I doing this for? And that's a really good question. If you can't eliminate out physical suffering, which you can't, nobody can, then what is the purpose of so-called practice? I use the word practice loosely. Referring to Theurgy, Smriti, Sati, Atamesis, Recollection, Apophoticism, Transcendence, whether it be Samadhi or Sati, all ultimately pointed at the same thing, complete disobjectification through wisdom. Well, the goal is that. Transcendence, such that it no longer occurs, that there is conjoinment between body and spirit again, ever, ever, ever. Physical suffering has no end for those that are born. It is necessitated, as the Greeks called it, Anantia. I don't know how this video will be received, but I was asked this question a bunch in a live stream recently, and I thought it would be a really good premise for making a video about, because it's something that people don't understand. There's nobody, no living creature, that's going to escape physical suffering. It's not possible. You can escape it occurring in perpetuity, and you can rise above it, and you can lessen it to a certain degree, but there is no escape from physical suffering. It's completely impossible. Ultimate escape, yes. At the breakup of the consubstantiality between body and spirit, yes. Ultimate end thereof, I need to point that out, because someone would attack me if I didn't point that out. Obvious fact. To me it's obvious. Some person might not see it as obvious, and then attack me on it. Ultimate removal of that, but no conventional removal of it, while there is still embodiment. It's not possible. Anyway, I can hear the thunder and see the lightning out there. There's a bad lightning storm outside. I like thunder and lightning. I don't know about you. Except for when the power goes out, and the internet goes down. Which I don't mind that in the cabin. There's no power or internet at my cabin. I just like to have a real fire going. Right now it's too hot for a real fire, but I like to have a real fire going at my cabin. You can put popcorn on the top of the stove, and pop popcorn, or wrap a potato in aluminum foil, and cook a potato on the top of the stove. There is nothing better than a real fire, with real logs in it. I like this digital farce we've got going on over here. Have a lovely week.