Leo D.M.J. Aurini - October 03, 2015


The Necessity of Meditation


Episode Stats

Length

13 minutes

Words per Minute

110.72439

Word Count

1,474

Sentence Count

100

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Where does the idea of civilization come from? What does it mean and where does it go from here? What is its purpose? How does it come from within us? And where does that spark come from in the first place?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Music
00:00:16.680 The Necessity of Meditation
00:00:33.500 This is a requested video which comes from Jack.
00:00:38.920 And brother, it's a great question.
00:00:41.120 Thank you for your support.
00:00:42.140 And if you guys want to request a video, click the Arini's Insight link down below.
00:00:50.260 Now, meditation.
00:00:51.680 Why is it necessary?
00:00:54.020 Why is it important?
00:00:54.960 What's the purpose of it?
00:00:56.720 And meditation, prayer, feel free to toss in your own word there.
00:01:02.760 I'm going to start off by asking you, what is Western literature?
00:01:08.440 You see, Western literature is actually a very unique development in history.
00:01:17.760 There's a certain quality that, you know, especially starting in the Renaissance and moving forward from that,
00:01:25.060 there's a certain quality that you get in Western literature that's just absent before that and elsewhere in the world.
00:01:31.480 And you can sum that up as the character's arc.
00:01:35.540 The growth and change that they make within themselves, which corresponds to a growth and change in the world around them.
00:01:43.300 See, literature, our storytelling, is all about a protagonist encountering adversity that shakes them up and makes them confront things about themselves.
00:01:59.640 And then, having that protagonist go out into the world and enforce the discovery they have made about themselves,
00:02:12.360 they go and enforce that and change the nature of reality.
00:02:19.860 This is what Nietzsche would call the will to power.
00:02:22.400 That there's this element in humanity.
00:02:28.080 There's this spark.
00:02:30.700 This ability to change reality to fit our vision.
00:02:35.800 To demand that our vision of reality come to be.
00:02:41.300 You know, and so long as it is a true vision of reality, that tends to work.
00:02:45.640 If you've got the guts, if you've got the grit,
00:02:49.040 it tends to work.
00:02:52.400 You see, there's something transcendental to all of the great things that humanity does.
00:03:01.380 Music is not just pleasing to listen to.
00:03:06.700 Art is not just aesthetically nice.
00:03:11.240 And civilization,
00:03:13.500 it's not merely the natural product of free market economics and evolution.
00:03:20.100 Okay, you know, we certainly see some very complex behaviors coming from ants.
00:03:25.680 Some phenomenal, amazing things coming from ants.
00:03:32.080 But we don't see civilization.
00:03:35.140 We don't see ideas.
00:03:36.780 We don't see that divine spark of creation.
00:03:39.320 That divine spark is something that comes purely from humanity.
00:03:50.920 No other animal has it.
00:03:52.540 And so where does that spark come from?
00:04:01.140 Well, let's talk a little bit more about what that spark does first.
00:04:04.700 You know, in particular,
00:04:06.120 there's going to be another requested review coming up
00:04:08.360 for the movie Tombstone.
00:04:11.000 And I think this movie
00:04:13.840 really illustrates
00:04:16.280 the fact that
00:04:17.740 it's men
00:04:20.120 who create civilization.
00:04:25.140 Not women.
00:04:26.420 Men.
00:04:26.940 Women have their own mysteries.
00:04:28.960 You know, sometimes I understand women
00:04:30.340 very, very well.
00:04:31.820 Other times,
00:04:32.600 I have no idea whatsoever.
00:04:34.340 And I couldn't tell you what
00:04:35.240 women's mysteries are.
00:04:38.300 Women certainly sustain the race.
00:04:40.040 They comfort the race.
00:04:46.840 But they don't create civilization.
00:04:51.820 That's entirely the domain of men.
00:04:56.760 Women can even learn to do science rather well,
00:04:59.080 but they can't be a genius scientist
00:05:02.840 the way a man can be.
00:05:04.940 And so this
00:05:10.320 urge to create civilization,
00:05:13.740 obviously this comes out
00:05:15.920 of the tribal pack nature
00:05:18.600 of the chimpanzee.
00:05:20.220 We see a more primitive form of it
00:05:22.340 in the chimpanzees.
00:05:24.320 We all innately as men,
00:05:26.140 or at least we aren't really taught
00:05:27.960 how to do it anymore,
00:05:28.920 but it's there.
00:05:29.440 It's there in the instincts.
00:05:30.480 It's there in the gut.
00:05:31.220 You know how to associate
00:05:34.080 with other men as a tribe.
00:05:35.840 You know,
00:05:36.040 you know how to be a man.
00:05:38.480 And you can figure out
00:05:39.300 the pecking order.
00:05:41.080 It's harder because
00:05:42.300 there's so little initiation
00:05:44.980 these days
00:05:45.800 into masculinity,
00:05:47.040 but it's still there.
00:05:48.040 It's still there.
00:05:48.600 You can find it.
00:05:49.220 And so civilization
00:05:54.180 is a natural outgrowth
00:05:56.560 of the pack,
00:05:58.340 of the tribe,
00:05:59.700 of the all-male team.
00:06:01.840 We're talking about a military unit
00:06:03.260 or a football team.
00:06:04.560 We naturally organize ourselves
00:06:06.120 into hierarchies,
00:06:07.180 and we go out
00:06:07.900 and accomplish some goal.
00:06:10.360 Now,
00:06:10.840 amongst chimpanzees,
00:06:12.180 and amongst most men,
00:06:14.260 you know,
00:06:14.540 when you see four or five
00:06:16.120 college kids going out
00:06:18.100 on a Friday night,
00:06:19.000 it's the same mentality.
00:06:20.560 But like the chimpanzees,
00:06:22.920 their goals are prosaic.
00:06:24.620 Their goals are simply,
00:06:25.580 you know,
00:06:25.960 go out and get laid.
00:06:28.580 Or go and hunt down
00:06:29.940 and kill an animal.
00:06:30.960 Or go and kill this enemy.
00:06:33.260 You know,
00:06:33.440 this is just the natural nature
00:06:35.000 of men,
00:06:35.600 is to organize
00:06:36.360 and create hierarchies.
00:06:39.480 Patriarchy, though.
00:06:41.820 Patriarchy is one
00:06:43.180 of the unique wonders
00:06:44.940 that humanity can create.
00:06:48.100 It's the natural outgrowth
00:06:50.880 of this.
00:06:52.440 But what men do
00:06:53.260 is they then demand
00:06:56.720 that there be law and order.
00:06:59.820 They demand of reality.
00:07:03.900 They impose upon reality
00:07:05.460 that there is going to be
00:07:06.040 law and order.
00:07:07.560 There is not going to be
00:07:08.800 this raping and theft.
00:07:12.600 There is going to be order.
00:07:15.560 There is going to be
00:07:16.560 civilization.
00:07:18.060 There will be fair treatment
00:07:19.720 of other people.
00:07:24.300 I mean,
00:07:24.520 can you imagine
00:07:24.920 a chimpanzee pack
00:07:26.520 doing something like that?
00:07:27.960 No.
00:07:28.340 The idea of extending
00:07:30.540 the ethos
00:07:32.600 of the gang
00:07:33.500 and creating something
00:07:36.400 new with it.
00:07:39.500 That's pure masculinity.
00:07:40.820 You can talk about
00:07:45.280 how art
00:07:46.720 obviously responds to
00:07:50.360 we like the curve
00:07:51.720 of a woman's breasts.
00:07:52.940 So breasts are very prominent
00:07:54.260 in art.
00:07:56.100 We have a natural
00:07:58.000 inclination as a species
00:07:59.340 to look for
00:08:01.760 fertile valleys
00:08:02.940 with woods nearby.
00:08:04.680 That's kind of
00:08:06.320 the idyllic environment
00:08:07.360 because we have
00:08:09.180 all the natural resources
00:08:10.280 that we need to live.
00:08:14.300 And yet paintings,
00:08:15.640 they're more than just that.
00:08:17.960 A painting isn't erotica.
00:08:19.840 It's not base.
00:08:21.120 It's not vulgar.
00:08:22.820 It is more than that.
00:08:24.800 There is more going on there.
00:08:26.280 We are taking
00:08:27.980 this nature of ourselves,
00:08:29.740 whether it's to appreciate
00:08:30.860 female beauty
00:08:31.760 or to appreciate
00:08:34.060 melodic sounds
00:08:35.720 or
00:08:36.720 to organize ourselves
00:08:39.940 into fair and just hierarchies
00:08:41.700 to practice leadership
00:08:43.180 and decency
00:08:44.720 and fairness.
00:08:46.100 We take our nature
00:08:47.920 and then reshape reality
00:08:51.320 to become that nature.
00:08:52.760 That's the divine spark.
00:08:58.420 That's the will to power
00:08:59.460 right there.
00:09:02.840 How do you access this?
00:09:08.460 Because here's the thing.
00:09:11.300 Most of the time
00:09:12.100 we are just animals.
00:09:15.340 Most of the time
00:09:16.120 we are just responding
00:09:17.260 to our environment.
00:09:21.580 Most of the time
00:09:22.280 we are just working
00:09:22.760 by instinct
00:09:23.440 when you really
00:09:24.240 get right down to it.
00:09:28.040 You know,
00:09:28.360 filling out a TPS report
00:09:29.760 is no more
00:09:31.020 the behavior
00:09:31.520 of a conscious human being
00:09:32.820 than the ants
00:09:34.460 making this amazing
00:09:35.820 underground city
00:09:37.020 is the conscious behavior
00:09:39.160 of the ant.
00:09:40.100 No,
00:09:40.380 that's an aggregate
00:09:41.660 superorganism
00:09:42.700 just following
00:09:44.420 basic rules.
00:09:46.100 It's no more sentient
00:09:47.200 than a router
00:09:49.160 figuring out
00:09:50.540 which packets of data
00:09:51.680 to send.
00:09:52.640 You know,
00:09:52.840 if you actually
00:09:53.180 tried to draw
00:09:53.660 a diagram of that
00:09:54.560 it would be just
00:09:55.100 as complex
00:09:55.720 as an ant mound
00:09:56.500 but
00:09:56.880 now the spark
00:10:02.740 is something more
00:10:03.360 than that.
00:10:05.800 And when you are
00:10:07.180 surrounded
00:10:08.580 by the world
00:10:10.960 you know,
00:10:12.220 constant sensory input
00:10:13.580 sensory overload
00:10:14.700 constantly bumping
00:10:15.660 into other people
00:10:16.460 responding
00:10:17.100 reacting
00:10:17.940 you know,
00:10:23.660 the
00:10:23.740 I think it's
00:10:25.220 the Navy
00:10:25.780 that came up
00:10:26.820 with this
00:10:27.060 for the Air Force
00:10:27.660 pilots
00:10:27.980 where they talk
00:10:28.340 about getting
00:10:29.000 out of the loop
00:10:29.800 you know,
00:10:32.220 the
00:10:32.460 respond,
00:10:34.180 react,
00:10:35.120 adjust,
00:10:35.640 respond,
00:10:36.200 react,
00:10:36.680 adjust
00:10:37.140 the loop
00:10:38.620 of how people
00:10:39.900 behave
00:10:40.480 and the way
00:10:43.020 that you win
00:10:43.500 a dogfight
00:10:44.240 is you
00:10:45.260 jump out
00:10:46.640 of the loop
00:10:47.200 you jump out
00:10:48.660 of the system
00:10:49.420 juiced
00:10:49.880 I think they call it
00:10:50.860 the same thing
00:10:55.000 for civilization
00:10:55.800 and this movie
00:10:59.400 I'm going to be
00:11:00.260 reviewing,
00:11:00.700 Tombstone
00:11:01.200 it's about
00:11:01.860 two gangs
00:11:02.400 of men
00:11:02.840 why is it
00:11:04.060 that one of them
00:11:04.840 wins out
00:11:05.820 over the other?
00:11:08.780 Because one of them
00:11:09.540 jumped out
00:11:09.920 of the system
00:11:10.400 one of them
00:11:11.740 confronted themselves
00:11:12.660 on the inside
00:11:13.320 and discovered
00:11:13.960 a fundamental
00:11:15.680 truth
00:11:16.600 an absolute truth
00:11:17.500 a higher truth
00:11:18.340 what's the difference
00:11:21.420 between
00:11:22.060 a
00:11:24.120 true
00:11:25.580 genius
00:11:26.620 artist
00:11:27.180 and
00:11:29.660 somebody
00:11:30.240 that's just
00:11:30.760 good at doing
00:11:31.200 corporate artwork
00:11:31.980 the genius
00:11:35.200 jumped out
00:11:35.700 of the system
00:11:36.200 same thing
00:11:38.300 for the scientist
00:11:39.060 all the
00:11:40.800 great advances
00:11:41.720 in science
00:11:42.280 didn't come
00:11:43.460 from these
00:11:44.020 paper pushers
00:11:45.780 that are
00:11:46.260 peer reviewing
00:11:47.120 and publishing
00:11:47.660 in journals
00:11:48.260 it came
00:11:49.420 from
00:11:49.900 gentlemen
00:11:51.420 amateurs
00:11:52.080 more often
00:11:52.980 than not
00:11:53.600 and this is
00:12:02.280 actually going
00:12:02.740 back to
00:12:03.160 literature
00:12:03.500 this is the
00:12:03.900 one thing
00:12:04.180 you don't
00:12:04.580 see
00:12:04.960 in literature
00:12:05.980 much of the
00:12:06.500 time
00:12:06.780 because it's
00:12:07.580 very hard
00:12:08.280 to explain
00:12:09.680 or describe
00:12:10.580 or to film
00:12:12.560 especially
00:12:15.420 given that
00:12:17.340 we men
00:12:17.760 we men
00:12:17.780 we are
00:12:18.020 the
00:12:18.180 active
00:12:18.520 sex
00:12:19.000 which is
00:12:19.660 why
00:12:19.840 most
00:12:20.180 protagonists
00:12:20.820 are male
00:12:21.300 and
00:12:23.100 it's
00:12:24.920 very hard
00:12:25.480 to have
00:12:26.420 an active
00:12:27.560 character
00:12:28.760 who is
00:12:29.820 meditating
00:12:30.320 but the
00:12:35.380 difference
00:12:35.580 between the
00:12:35.900 protagonist
00:12:36.300 and the
00:12:36.640 antagonist
00:12:37.400 the reason
00:12:38.440 the protagonist
00:12:38.980 has victory
00:12:40.780 the reason
00:12:41.940 the great
00:12:42.340 artist
00:12:42.760 is a great
00:12:43.380 artist
00:12:43.660 and the
00:12:44.020 reason that
00:12:44.520 civilization
00:12:45.160 exists
00:12:46.760 it's
00:12:47.840 because of
00:12:48.180 the man
00:12:48.540 that jumped
00:12:49.060 out
00:12:49.460 of the
00:12:50.040 system
00:12:50.380 the man
00:12:51.560 that
00:12:51.780 retreated
00:12:52.600 from the
00:12:53.420 world
00:12:53.800 respond
00:12:56.160 react
00:12:56.880 adapt
00:12:57.400 respond
00:12:57.900 react
00:12:58.460 adapt
00:12:58.900 they got
00:12:59.280 away
00:12:59.780 from that
00:13:00.340 noise
00:13:00.860 and they
00:13:03.760 sat
00:13:04.180 in the
00:13:05.180 silence
00:13:05.680 and asked
00:13:06.600 themselves
00:13:07.160 who am
00:13:12.380 I
00:13:12.600 what do
00:13:14.020 I stand
00:13:14.520 for
00:13:14.900 what
00:13:17.340 is the
00:13:18.400 truth