There are always more perspective to take on a story until you reach the complete observer who is not involved in the happenings at all. Obi Wan fits this step when he died in episode four of Star Wars. He became more powerful than Darth could ever imagine because Obi Wan was no longer able to be self-interested but only the better of the entire universe and the way of life. He was then totally aware of the world but also totally uninvolved… except he’s magical and can give Luke advise. As meditation directs, letting go of one’s Earthly needs and possessions, judgments and all that makes us human does free us from frivolous things. Once one has reached this place though, then what?
One of the beautiful things in this life is that we get to make mistakes and be human. The ability to fail at something gives light to the success of it and nuance to reality. The little definitions of our lives makes us significant in how they make us real. Being totally zen and aware of all means not having an opinion. This is a boring fucking place! Full scope is only possible at locations like this. For such reason as keeping passion present, one must decide a self and enjoy the risk of being wrong, one must become subjective to experience the highs which require some number of lows.
Being totally objective is absolutely awful for it is boring. One cannot be great without the possibility of being terrible. As escaping human pain does sound blissful it comes at the price of being able to give a shit about anything. Pain is always temporary but is not really bad. Viewing suffering as an experience and beginning to view it as a place to measure and learn about life from takes away the stupid tone society has sold to it’s slave to believe that they MUST escape it and there’s no other option. Starvation, death, pain, bankruptcy are not that bad yet they rule humankind’s decisions on the majority. Allowing one’s self to get past that and try a new more mature view on it rather than run scared does create a new freedom; real freedom which includes wisdom. Once one is OK with being hurt and wrong, then can higher knowledge and a rapid flow of adventures come to a person. I say be a person and be ok with changing that person but don’t idealize the zen state as the zen state wishes it had passion and fear. Never bullshit yourself in that person state and call what you have the objective best; that’s feeding an ego and shielding one’s insecurities with bullshit and is an overload of work.
