updated

productivity/scio-nihil/index.html

@@ -63,12 +63,33 @@
   					<a href="../index.html">Previous Page</a>
 <h1>Scio Nihil: Dissolving Beliefs </h1>
 <pre><code class="nim">
-There is a Fire, burning wherever I went, through time, I learned, and learned, and learned.
-But the more i learned, the more i realized how little i truly knew. That fire grew uncomfortably big, bigger than i ever thought it would get.
-[...] Not knowing hurts me, why do i need to know in the first place? I don't care, I'll assume, and  believe instead.
+One day, Aristotle was walking on the beach. A glorious sunset was happening, but he had no time for such petty daily events. He was thinking seriously about some great problem of existence, because for Aristotle, existence is a problem, and he believes he is going to solve it. Thinking seriously, he was walking up and down the beach. There was another man on the beach who was doing something very intensely – so intensely that even Aristotle could not ignore him.
 
-But suddenly, the fire got extinguished.
-	
+You know, people who think too much about their own nonsense end up ignoring life around them. They are the people who don’t smile at anybody or even look at anybody in the world. They have no eyes to look at a flower, a sunset, a child or a smiling face – or if it is an unsmiling face, they have no inclination to make it smile; they have no such small duties or small cares in the world! They ignore all the life around them because they are all busy, solving the problems of existence.
+
+But Aristotle could not ignore this man, and he closely observed what he was doing: this man was going to the ocean, coming back, going to the ocean, coming back, all with great intensity. So Aristotle stopped and asked, “Hey, what are you up to?”
+
+The man said, “Don’t disturb me, I am doing something very important,” and went on and on.
+
+Aristotle became even more curious and asked, “What are you doing?”
+
+The man said, “Don’t disturb me, something very important.”
+
+Aristotle said, “What is this important thing?”
+
+The man showed a little hole he had dug in the sand, and he said, “I am emptying the ocean into this hole.” He had a tablespoon in his hand.
+
+Aristotle looked at this and laughed. Now, Aristotle is the kind who can spend a year without a single moment of laughter, because he is intellect. It takes a heart to laugh. Intellect cannot laugh; it can only dissect.
+
+But even Aristotle laughed at this and said, “This is ridiculous! You must be insane. Do you know how vast this ocean is? How can you ever empty this ocean into this little hole? And that too, with a tablespoon? At least if you have a bucket, there’s some chance. Please give this up; this is madness, I am telling you.”
+
+The man looked at Aristotle, threw the spoon down and said, “My job is already done.”
+
+Aristotle said, “What do you mean? Forget about the ocean being empty; even the hole is not full. How can you say your job is done?”
+
+The other man was Heraclitus. Heraclitus stood up and said, “I am trying to empty the ocean into this hole with a tablespoon. You are telling me it’s ridiculous, it’s madness, so I should give it up. What are you trying to do? <b>Do you know how vast this existence is? It can contain a billion oceans like this and more, and you are trying to empty it into the small hole of your head – and with what? With tablespoons called thoughts. Please give it up. It’s utterly ridiculous.</b>”
+
+-Sadhguru 17/12/2014
 </code></pre>
 
           
@@ -119,21 +140,24 @@ But suddenly, the fire got extinguished.
 	    <div class="container">
 			<div class="row">
 				<div class="col-lg-8 col-lg-offset-2">
-          <h2><b>Nihilism: Dissolving Compulsions</b></h2> </br> </br>
+          <h2><b>Nihilism: Dissolving Beliefs</b></h2> </br> </br>
 <p>Modern Nihilism, as i am arrogantly pionnering myself, is a set of sentences, or mantras, to be repeatedly mentally thought of, in order to change yourself from within, this aims to alter your perception, your beliefs, and your actual sense of self.</p>
 <pre><code class="nim">
-Inhalation: "I want nothing"
-Exhalation: "I need nothing"
+The second Nihilism Mantra:
+
+Inhalation: "I know nothing"
+Exhalation: "I know nothing else"
 
 </code></pre>
-<p>It doesn't matter what you currently think you want, or what you think you need. It's an illusion anyway. And to be able to get rid of those compulsions, you need to uproot them from your mind directly.</p>
-<p>It is all up to you. <b>Are you going to need a cane to walk forever? Are you going to seek puerile pleasure all your life?</b> Stop being what others want you to be, dissolve it all. Hit that reset button.</p>
-<p>Repeat that mantra for a while, <b>keep doing it as long as you need to, until all the poison has been worked out of your system.</b></p>
+<p>It doesn't matter how much you believe you know, in the end you're only believing you know something. Words cannot fully encapsulate the true depth and richness of our unfathomable reality. Knowing how to use something does not mean you know what it ultimately is.</p>
+<p>These sentences are uttered out of the sense that no matter how much you believe you know, you ultimately cannot know more than an insignificant portion of the existance, if at all you are capable of knowing something.</p>
+<p>When even an atom you are unable to know in it's entirety, how can you ever pretend you know anything from there? It is a fundamental reality that people keep forgetting or intentionally ignore.</p>
+<p>To bring back the awareness of your own ignorance is fundamental. To be able to know anything, one must first admit that they don't know. Those that pretend to know, for them the possibility of knowing is not even there. </p>
+<pre><code class="nim">
+"Ignorant of your own ignorance. You no longer interest me."
 
-<p>The lake has not been clear for a very long time, but it needs to become clear again, and to be kept clear.</p>
-
-<p>Once the slate has been wiped clean, once clarity is back, think for a while. <b>What is it that you truly want to do with your life ? What will bring you the most satisfaction, until the very end ?</b></p>
-<p>In that moment of clarity, decide for the next 10 years, what will your life be about. Then stick to it, no matter what happens. <b>If your mind deviates from that goal, dissolve the falsehoods again, and again</b>, keep the lake crystal clear, every day, only then will you function at your peak.</p>
+</pre></code>
+<p>Once the awareness of your own ignorance is brought back into you, as a reality that you keep close to you every day, you'll feel a burning longing to know in you. It may be uncomfortable at first, but that's how it is.</p>
 
 
 				</div>