This philosophy is intended for those who seek to refine themselves. If you simply wish to live a life as your parents did this book will crush that dream. This book will crumble your ancient foundations. If you recoil from the idea of self-change you desperately need this book. Even if your belief structures are ten feet thick, the walls seemingly impenetrable, something will effect you- it will be the beginning of something big.
Attempting to discover new avenues in life is treacherous. You will often find in searching you have gone in circles, have run into a wall, or even gone backwards. These are typical risks any adventurer takes when wandering into undiscovered territory. The amazing part about this is that these new worlds are within yourself.
Living a simple life filled with hard-set certainties is not necessarily ignoble. It has been considered wise by philosophers that the simple life is preferable to that of the ascetic or the introvert who lives through books. There is a fine balance between each of these. If happiness is your ultimate goal, if satisfaction is something you desire to find hastily this book will be your worst nightmare. If that is your wish I recommend that you hold tight onto religion, race, gender, nation... false-beliefs such as these will serve you if that is your wish. Enlightenment is not necessarily for everyone; the well trodden path is a gift for those who wish to have their self composed of pieces designed by others. Self-discovery is making one's own path, form one's own self. Such ideas are found in this book.
Searching for truth can be an agonizing experience. True, you will appreciate the clarity it brings, but you will lose the gift of ready-made answers, simple molds provided by society to pour oneself into. You will be lost oftentimes. You will seek for answers and find none which work as easy as those you left behind that calm your cares as easy as nursery rhymes. So venture on but be warned, there is no simple, fairy tale answer at the end of this book. There is no promise of heaven for all your hard work. What you get is YOU. A you more finely sculpted than before, the unhewn block of stone around you, each epiphany chiseling the false-self from your beautiful form. As after a strenuous workout training your muscles, heart, and lungs you will feel more alive in the changes you notice in yourself as you forgo the crutch of the child-mind.
Whatever level you are at, as far as knowing yourself, as far as the amount of ancient habits that you rely on delaying your development into that better you, you will do well to view the many lessons and insights within this book in the focused, straight-to-the-point form that they are laid out.
In order to do anything well in life practice is necessary and self-development is no exception. Here is the reason for the form this book takes: The subject matter is laid out relatively simply so that the information will not be lost in an avalanche of words within immense, wordy chapters. The subjects discussed in this book are titled in such a way to make obvious the subject being discussed to create an ease of reference and focus. I have made an attempt to keep redundancy to a minimum for the goal here is not to appear academic but to use language as a means to better ourselves. This book is a chance to express these insights which may be clear and obvious to some, but perhaps clouded and forgotten; to others, this critical analyzation of self will be undertaken for the first time. Such is life; we are often blind to our worst problems: The baggage form our childhood, our foul habits, our fears that keep us crippled, and our excuses that keep all of these pulsing with life... for when our eyes are opened the ugliness is so apparent to us. With an iron will one can rip these cancers out, crush them under foot, and for once live gloriously.
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