why
For most of my posts i try to use a single word heading because i like to keep it simple. the single word heading sort of focuses me on what i am trying to talk about.
Why do i act? Why do i react? why do i go through a certain emotion? what is it that drives that “(re)action” – i need to be able to understand that.
For me it is about why “I” am who i am, what makes me me. It sounds a bit conceited but it isn’t. Its more about a journey towards self awareness, towards Sentience, towards understanding myself.
I find that it gives me more insight into people i meet and interact with. Questioning myself for whatever i do makes me less judgemental about others and their actions.
Sometimes the search for the why is overwhelming because it unearths answers which i may not like or shows me a side of myself which isn’t how i see myself or want to see myself.
But that search is something which is an unchangeable and prominent feature of “how” i think.
Now i just need to figure out “why” i think
the asking of why is very much based in rational thought… and although i don’t believe rationality is the “end all and be all of all reality”, its an important tool to understand some aspects of it.
Descartes would have been very proud of you for the question though
Although, it sounds to me like someone need a vipassana course
Want a further foundation in the study of why… i really recommend the course (you have to go for a 10 day one to start of with).
sounds good . . . looks worth a try i just don’t know how well i’d fit in with organised structured learning like this . . . you know what i feel about structured learning don’t you
but i might just go for one