Yet another take on True Detective

[David Morris]

Nihilism is not the path. It is a quicksand that can make you more lost
that before.  But when you say, "being and nothingness are the same," you
are close. But the conclusion that therefore nothing matters is wrong.
Everything matters very much and deserves our full attention:

November 29, 2012. *115*-minute dharma talk given by Thich Nhat Hanh from
Lower Hamlet at Plum Village.

http://tnhaudio.org/tag/interbeing/page/2/

Science and Buddhism. Matter and energy. Nothing is born. Nothing dies. Our
true nature is of no birth and no death. This is the ultimate truth. There
is no being, no non-being, only Interbeing.

There is a dimension of reality called the historical dimension. In the
historical dimension we see things as separate - father is outside of the
son. This is classical science as applied by Newton. But now we have
 another kind of science that goes deeper; it has discovered a new kind of
truth. This is represented by quantum physics. It seems to contradict the
truth found in historical dimension. In meditation there are also two kinds
of truth: the conventional truth and the ultimate truth. There is path that
can lead us from historical to ultimate. It is the best practice of
meditation because it can connect us with the ultimate truth.The Buddha
used the notions of historical dimension to lead us to the ultimate. This
was skillful means to helps us to release notions and concepts. The
teaching of *co-arising* / inter-arising.
In the ultimate dimension, we use words like Emptiness. This is the
equivalent to God. It is the ultimate. It is the absence of notions and
concepts. The teaching of interbeing - nothing by itself can be alone.
Helps you to be connected to emptiness.

On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Indel Icate <indelicateexplasions at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What we fail to realize, or maybe we do, perhaps it's both, and something
> between the etching lit snowflakes arriving to the dust of the earth, and
> arched eyes burning into the flight of the sanguine swan, waning the
> moonlight, resting, falling, rising, on the waves.
>
> I thank you Mr. Morrison for your words.  You are right on.  It's getting
> to the point where I do need someone, or a guide.  Not my woman, not my
> lady.  She's all about it.  She is the sweetest dearheart on planet Earth.
>
> I was, throughout my life, beyond rational skeptik.  Was I being
> reasonable?  I decided that being and nothingness were, are, the same.  I'm
> what you would call, I became, a pure nihilist.
>
> What I began to notice, notify, is that what this gauged violet lunacy
> that is existence on Earth, is ironic.  This world is based, 01010101, on
> irony.  This life is Irony.  I have traveled this blue, cock sucking, and
> pussy licking, planet, and it's irony.
>
> Here it is.  When a supercharged nihilist, it did not matter.  Nothing.
>  When I awoke, and realized that I am eternal .... It does not matter.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Many others have experienced those perceptions, and they are quite real,
> not delusions, but without a practice in spiritual discipline they can lead
> to psychosis. If you go out there without a hold on to this realm, a way
> back, you could put yourself in great mental danger. You need a teacher or
> guide or a discipline.  Be careful.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Indel Icate <indelicateexplasions at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I've been tripping out, like hard, in an odd sort of fashion, as of late,
> when the storm rises out of the twilight mist, and the paradox meets the
> synchronicity.  Things, assumptionses, are occurring, rapidly, these days,
> these mindless timeforms, and there is not but a thing, to describe
> themselves.  How do you say quantum in a literal way, I mean as
> in...literally. By which I mean, bookish.
>
> I think it's quite possible that we are, literally, multidimensional.
>
> I think that, that is, what was, is, and what never happened, happened.  I
> do not believe that what is, happening, is happening.  There is no time.
>  It does not exist.  Yet I'm speaking of it.
>
> As I become, in age, which is absurd, in my early 40s, there is a
> no-something, that is occurring.  I am developing this notion, that there
> is something manifesting on this planet that has not, logickly, to do, with
> reason.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Antonin Scriabin <
> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Two of my female friends who watch TD think Woody is gorgeous, and of
> course Matt spent the better part of his career playing dumb eye candy in
> rom-coms. So I don't think it's true that ALL the men are ugly, and ALL the
> women are hot and sexualized. Also see the not super hot, not sexualized,
> chief of surgery woman Cohle is set up with.
>  On Feb 25, 2014 12:29 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Look, I really like the show, but I, too, cringed when yet another nubile
> young woman - she's a clerk at a phone store, not a prostitute - begs
> overweight, older, drunk, married and, frankly, ugly Woody to fuck her in
> the ass. And this young woman, with her history of being an abused child
> turned child-whore, growing up in the strip mall/pork-rind-eating white
> trash culture, has an absolutely flawless face and body. I guess if she had
> a little flab on her belly, Woody wouldn't dream of fucking her in any
> orifice at all. Even Pynchon referenced in V the sad freshman adage that
> "the ugly ones fuck." Where are the ugly (read: real) women?  Maybe my
> complaint is with the casting director: aside from the younger black
> detective (who's merely averagely attractive), and Matt (who cleans up well
> in the younger scenes, but isn't what you'd call stunning, given the
> character's weird personality) every man on the show is ugly. The redneck
> men don't have flawless faces and bodies - no, that wouldn't be realistic,
> would it? They're overweight, scarred, tattooed, pierced and butt-ugly.
> Poor Michelle W. - after years of a bad marriage to Woody, she doesn't even
> earn the right to a double chin or a little flab? Presumably, if she'd "let
> herself go," we'd see Woody's fucking around as justified. Oh, and where
> are the black women? Two black male detectives, and a token black male
> preacher in the first episode - who's in his congregation? Not sexy enough
> to be hookers or bimbos for Woody?
>
> You mention Sherlock, Monte. Again,two main white male characters - but
> lots of eye candy for women. The show's launched practically a mass
> movement in China:
>
>
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