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Abstracted Reality | Diary of an Archetype - looking for liberation in a world that is out of its mind.

BY: @arqetype | CREATED: April 23, 2018, 12:16 p.m. | VOTES: 15 | PAYOUT: $20.82 | [ VOTE ]

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Abstracted Reality

What is Buddhism? And how does it fit into the modern world? Were the global conditions of the Buddha in any way reminiscent of where we are today?

In light of the global political predicament. In light of a world consumed with social media distraction and addiction, it is time we all come back to our senses. We can no longer fool ourselves that the progress of civilization is linear, always moving towards the salvation of the scientific religion. We ebb and flow in cycles with rising tides of novelty.

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We must begin to deconstruct where we are and where we are going. Has civilization gotten the better of us? Were we fooled all along? How far have we strayed from reality. How much more can we abstract reality into the minute repetitive delineations of languages and symbology that has lead us farther away for ourselves with every iteration. How many of us are awake? How many of us asleep? We are all caught in a super system called civilization. At the end of the day we don't really have control. It has its own way. Its own agenda. We are like the cells in a larger organism.

Far too many of my generation believe in the lie of social media. The lie being that it was designed to bring us together. It is frustrating to see so many, including myself at times fall into this trap. What we don't realize is that social media was not designed to connect us.

WAS NOT DESIGNED TO CONNECT US.

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It was designed to hold our attention spans for as long as possible. It steals from us the most important thing we have our time. Losing ourselves in the brightest moments of others we do not even have close to us. We are addicted. We have been convinced that mindlessly sharing bits and pieces of our brightest moments is connecting us. Bringing us closer. While they sell it to those who would profit off of it.

In this video I explore these ideas. Pondering the modern condition and where to go from here. The basic principles of Buddhism may offer us a way out of a collapsing world where all our paradigms and illusions are collapsing. Where the technology we have created has become out biggest enemy. Our symbols, deas and the systems we build around them have become our worst nightmare. In our hubris we let these things take us over.

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Like all great civilizations we will come, we will go.

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Video notes

Voice by - Alan Watts

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@yesod | April 23, 2018, 12:43 p.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

The Tree of Life, or Etz haChayim (עץ החיים) has upvoted you with divine emanations of G-ds creation itself ex nihilo. We reveal Light by transforming our Desire to Receive for Ourselves to a Desire to Receive for Others. I am part of the Curators Guild (Sephiroth), through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals Itself!

@arqetype | April 23, 2018, 1:03 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Thank you @yesod for your vote from The Tree of Life.

@gaber | April 23, 2018, 1:04 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

DOPE been waiting to see this :)

@arqetype | April 23, 2018, 1:38 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Ah you're the best man. So happy it's done. Really tried to push my limits and talents.

@sherabjin | April 23, 2018, 1:34 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

As someone who's brought up in a strong Buddhist family, I enjoy reading this =) especially how you related it to the modern society! Kudos!

@arqetype | April 23, 2018, 1:37 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Well thank you man! That means a lot. I really wanted to give the philosophy a fair hearing while implementing it with everything I'm thinking and experiencing.

@thirdeyeindigo | April 28, 2018, 5:52 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

This is such a fantastic collaboration of voice and your personal experience through videography. So impressed with this piece. Really touches the heart and speaks to the soul.

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