Good point about not even noticing the effort that goes into task avoidance - and thanks for helping me reflect on how it's my blood vessels that often appear to take the unnecessary strain when I've been doing some more hard-core procrastinating. For me this also highlights how habits are kind of an antithesis to the thread's original conception around ongoing death and rebirth.
If we were to delineate the idea of constantly dying and constantly being born, we could observe lots of mini deaths and lots of many births as time passes. That said, a part of us that holds onto a habit is only doing so until that part dies or changes.
I sometimes wonder if I procrastinate because I need rest.
Thanks for posting this - it has reminded me how on various occasions DMT at low-ish doses has allowed me to see situations entirely from another person's perspective. For me the notion extends somewhat more, such that we are ultimately one person. Most of the time the vast majority of us forget this entirely. This is not, of course, my own idea but one that comes from eastern mysticism. Whether this is an absolute truth or not is beside the point - it is essentially unprovable. I do find it useful to consider from time to time, however.
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In Vedic philosophy, that part of us that is one in the same with each other and everything else is the sleeping and waking, infinitely small, and infinitely large, Atman, or Brahman, The Word. Yes, unprovable, but definitely worthwhile to seriously consider on occasion, noticing the lack of attachment we have to ourselves and "egos" as a result of seeing no difference, really a shifting of perspective, but not a explanation of truth. In the same breath, the parts of us that realize ourselves as individuals in this vedic paradigm are in a certain sense eternal, through reincarnation and reconstitution (in a new universe) through the continuity of individual experience.
I align with a lot of this, probably because I first came across some of these ideas in high school, but have diverged a bit into my own conceptual territory about the cosmic ontology of the individual consciousness experience, and so simply say now, "the self is there, but not what we think it is."
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