Action over Attainment #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts
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Summary
The concept of a nobleman choosing to not do noble stuff, but go sit under a tree, or go kill himself for some kind of spiritual attainment that he doesn t actually use in a productive way hurts me on a lot of levels.
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the concept of a nobleman choosing to not do noble stuff but go sit under a tree
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and calcify wasting his life for some kind of spiritual attainment that he doesn't actually
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use in a productive way it hurts my feelings on a lot of different levels you know there's
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idea in buddhism about developing the diamond body and you know you do this thing to make yourself
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awesome for what purpose because you don't do anything with it you don't take it out of the box
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like what's the point it's like the let's get an action figure and just put it up on the wall like
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no you take it out of the thing and you play with it you make it do stuff that's it's an action
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figure it's an inaction figure sitting on the wall suffering well and that's that's the thing
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all the suffering in the world well you're a prince go do prince stuff and alleviate suffering
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go conquer the villains and you know slay evil and provide justice and food for your people and
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you have a responsibility and to abdicate that to claim that you are spiritually enlightened
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because you are useless and have made yourself useless and again they would characterize this
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very differently than i am but i think that is a fundamental difference in understanding in house
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of true and in eastern variants that might have a an arian root way back when the key is action
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we are our deeds not our thoughts the point of gaining wisdom is to implement action is to be
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successful is to win it's not to disappear into nothingness yeah the squandering of that is is
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is a tragedy and not something inspirational to my to my reading or to my understanding