Yeah. Mountains can be mountains. And mountains can be other things. Yeah. Perception. How we look at things. What things can represent. What things actually are. Zen is a big thing to study.
Your riddle is tough. Fix the elevator. Make stairs. Only stay on one floor. Find a new building to live in. Get a rope and pulley. Become Spider Man. Teleport. Star Gate. Mind blend. Star Trek tech needed. Escalator up on over. Find a house. Burn down the building. Go outside and dance. Bend time and space itself and party. Enter the Matrix with Neo and Zeo. Learn patience as the elevator slowly goes up and down. Find a way to make elevator go faster.
Yeah. Interesting. Listening determines what is said and not the speaker, they say. Like, it is a question of what a person heard. Like, what was communicated. What ended up in the ears and brains of the recipients. Of trees fall in forests and jungles and woods and people don't hear it, did it make a sound? I say yes but some people have said no.
I agree, Life is greater than the sum of its parts. I've heard that and it is true. There is a lot in that. And life is something other than its parts. I've not heard that but that could be as well. There could be more than the physical 3-dimensional parts to life. Like the spiritual parts in the higher dimensions.
I save a lot of wonder for myself and in regards to myself and other things. Like I don't know everything and I remain open minded to mysteries and everything.
When I isolate myself from life for a short period of time, then I can look at my life from a different perspective. This helps me see myself from different points of view as to be less personal, less subjective. It is an attempt to be less bias and more objective. It is a desire to learn more about myself and others and life and everything.
Yeah, something might be true and you may not label it good or bad. It may be that you are unaware of whether it is good or bad. That does not mean it is not good or bad but that it was simply not labeled yet. Yeah, some things may not be problems in the first place. Good to have your kind of perspective then.
Is it more profitable to suffer than to let go of a problem?
In regards to that article you wrote in 2017, I found the bit about mother problem interesting. Yeah, people who see problems may in fact have solutions for those problems. The desire for problems to go away would be like wishing a headache would go away. A headache can be a symptom and I would want to discover and find the root cause of the symptom. Like another word for symptom would be a sign on the road that says stop. Like the sign might not a problem. Maybe some problems or some things we think of as problems are not problems. A light on a stove turns red to say the stove is hot. The burner is hot. Perhaps the light is not bad. The light has a purpose. So, perhaps the light is not the problem and perhaps some things we label as problem or as bad is not what we think.
The more you try to pull apart the Chinese finger trap, the more you get stuck. You have to put your fingers closer together in order to get out of the finger trap thing.
The sex doll example seen in that movie you mentioned is interesting and I am glad Lars was able to grow through his experiment or the choices he made with what he called his wife for that period of time. I agree that we can let people process and deal with things in different ways, in their own time, at their own pace, when they are ready which oddly reminds me of the value of how homeschool works in that each student may do better at an individual pace and style and everything as each human may be different or at least some appear to be at times and in some ways or at least can be. Now, in some situations, my concern is in situations where progress is not being made. Like with the sex doll for example, it could be troubling if a patient continues to degrade psychologically in an aggressive way, to accelerate towards a downward spiral to the extent of harming others in the process of mental degradation of delusions and other things.
As you described the art of counseling, it took me back to some of counseling classes I took in college. Part of my conclusion is that it is the job of the counselor not to try too aggressively to rush a client abruptly and acutely and prematurely to the end result, the end of the story, but rather to listen, to have dialog with the patient or client each step of the way through the process as that is a major purpose of the job of the counselor to somewhat guide in some ways but not to steer the ship yourself.
So, as I read your article, I see the paradoxes you referenced, that the problem is the solution, that change without being changed is possible, and then you also had a third one you mentioned about the universe. I think I can somewhat understand these paradoxes or these statements. I can see how some problems may be solutions and how change without change does happen at times.
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