4 ms·
> changing how you in particular perceive the world does not actually change the world that you are a part of It's impossible to change yourself without changi
by 613style 2y ago
> changing how you in particular perceive the world does not actually change the world that you are a part of
It's impossible to change yourself without changing the world, because those two things are not separate.
Further, much of the world exists only as abstract ideas in my mind. When I change how I relate to and perceive them, I do change them in every way that matters.
- utensil4778 2y agoSure, if you discount the fact that other people exist, are conscious, have their own experiences of the same world and also experience joy, sadness, love, and suffering. To assert that your perspective is the only thing that matters is to assert that nobody else matters.
- sim7c00 2y agoit is not the spoon which bends...
- DiscourseFan 2y agoIf by "you" you mean the totality of the universe that you are a part of, then changing "your" consciousness does change the world, but if you think of yourself as merely an individual subject--not a subject as substance--then nothing you do to "yourself" will lead to liberation, because others inability to find liberation creates a contradiction within your own.