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akira the don - pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient lyrics

meaning is what you have to b-ttress yourself against the tragedy of life
despite the fact that you’re a fragile damaged mortal creature
you found something to do that announced itself as worthwhile
that’s meaning
it’s an instinct
it’s a deep-deep instinct
it’s maybe the deepest instinct
it’s like a form of vision
meaning tells you when you in the right place
and the right place is between chaos and order
and those are real places your hemispheres
the right hemisphere is roughly evolved let’s say to deal with things you don’t understand that’s chaos
and your left is there to deal with things you do understand
you can’t just stay with the things that you do understand because you already understand that
and you can’t just stay with what you don’t understand because then your lost
you need to be in the middle of those two
and you can tell when you in the middle because everything lines up
because everything lines up
expedience is do you do the thing that gets you off the hook the fastest right now
you play that game across time it doesn’t work it sends you down
because you’re sacrificing the future for the present
meaning doesn’t do that
meaning says i’m here where i should be
and you can’t tell why it’s just that everything is right
you get this physiological sense
right place right time
follow this meaningful path
that’s your b-ttress against the tragedy that produces resentment and malevolent
meaning is the antidote to that
that’s the fundamental religious truth
life is suffering that’s true
there’s malevolence that’s true
meaning is the antidote to that
yes, people say, “well meaning isn’t real”
it’s like no that’s wrong
it’s actually the most real faith it might even be more real than suffering and evil
it’s possible
this isn’t a metaphysical -ssumption that i make
and you do feel it if you feel it in your body it’s not just a mental thing
it’s not an idea it’s a place
because we’re in time and sp-ce right
and a place is a place in all three dimensions of sp-ce
but it’s also a time and when the place and the time are set up properly
you’re in the right place and the brain is telling you that
your being is telling you
that purpose of profound religious contemplation
profound philosophical contemplation is to learn how to be in the right place at the right time
all the time
all the time
there’s this line from the gospel of thomas which was discovered in like 1957
and it says, “the kingdom of god is spread out before the eyes of men but men do not see it.”
and that’s kind of what it’s referring to
there are times when you’re in the right place at the right time and then you’re where you should be
and you’re not really trained to notice that because it isn’t something, we ever talked about
it’s like you’re in the right place at the right time
okay why what did i do right
what did i do?
i need to do more of that
so maybe it’s only half an hour a week when you first start noticing
and then maybe with three months of practice you can get it up to like an hour a day
and then maybe you can get it up to four hours a day
and god only knows where you could get it if you keep practicing
you know you can be there
we don’t know what the upper limit of that is

- akira the don lyrics

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