#1528, Monday, October 26: The paradox of change and suffering

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Post 1528, Day 299 of 2015
- 1,760 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I embrace change. Mostly. I still 'suffer' when things change in ways that seem adverse. It takes some time to adjust, and that, unfortunately, usually comes with some discomfort.

There is also the idea that change is not what I think it is. Not to get overly metaphysical, but if space and time are nonexistent, as I believe they are, then so is change. Because we use time and space to measure change.

If time and space aren't there, and the way we understand changes are differences in space over time, than nothing happens.

If everything is consciousness, then everything just is. If everything is, then what we perceive as changes (differences over time) doesn't happen. It's a perceptual illusion.

On the other hand, we do spend our lives within that illusion, and can't function in the "real" (material) world otherwise.

Because outside the illusion of time and space, we have no needs. No need to eat, no need to protect our 'selves' and no need to communicate. It's all done in the infinite confines of 'Now'.

Buddhism teaches us that not living in the 'Now', our attachment to the Space and Time illusion, is the source of all suffering.

It also teaches that you can end suffering by living without attachments. Of course that includes attachment to the idea or goal of ending suffering. Hmmm - wanting to end suffering means you can't end it. You have to, I guess, not care.

"Catch-22. That's some catch." (Capt. Yossarian, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller).

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   204.4 lbs

Previous Weight (10/23):          204.8 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 0.4 lbs

Diet Comment

OK - no damage done this weekend, a good thing. And, now, here we go with another week.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch
Roast beef and a salad baby kale, baby spinach, chard, arugula, and shaved parmesan cheese.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Dinner
Quest bars, toast with guacamole, cole slaw and celery with home-made mayonnaise.

Snack
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 2;  Coffee: 22 oz.;  Water: 88+ oz.

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