Leo D.M.J. Aurini - The Necessity of Meditation

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00:00:16.680 The Necessity of Meditation

00:00:33.500 This is a requested video which comes from Jack.

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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 0.80

00:04:20.120 who create civilization.

00:04:25.140 Not women. 1.00

00:04:26.420 Men.

00:04:26.940 Women have their own mysteries. 1.00

00:04:28.960 You know, sometimes I understand women 1.00

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. 1.00

00:04:38.300 Women certainly sustain the race. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:04:56.760 Women can even learn to do science rather well, 1.00

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. 0.57

00:06:28.580 Or go and hunt down 1.00

00:06:29.940 and kill an animal. 1.00

00:06:30.960 Or go and kill this enemy. 1.00

00:06:33.260 You know, 1.00

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. 0.87

00:06:41.820 Patriarchy is one 1.00

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. 0.86

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. 0.75

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 0.99

00:07:51.720 of a woman's breasts.

00:07:52.940 So breasts are very prominent 0.92

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

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

The Necessity of Meditation

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