Simplicity · The Consciousness Path

Simplicity

I'm having a dawning realization on just the nature of what I think is a lot of people's problems are and things that get in the way of learning as well.

I'm noticing that a lot of crappy stuff that goes on that creates suffering in people's experiences and maybe inhibits people's abilities in learning stuff is just having a complex mind.

As in there's just a bunch of shit being juggled around time to time. Like how you want to live your life you might have a million and one ideas of what it should be and this and that. Maybe making it hard to choose. Or if you wanted to learn something you might just start juggling around a lot of concepts trying to "figure it out."

Been then there's just a simplicity in just paying attention to what's going on.

Juggling around concepts and coming up with ideas seems to be the "thing to do" a lot of the time, but it kinda seems like the solution to a lot of our sufferings might honestly lean in the other direction. I think even in learning stuff too.

Simplicity in living can look like an ease where you don't have to second guess yourself, and decisions can become clearer just by questioning or living.

Simplicity in learning can look like the material ITSELF becomes the teacher, and your paying attention to the act or reality of it is what becomes the lesson. Less preconceptions

I can even notice it in "combat," or even social interactions. Just move your body, mess around, do the thing. Stop "thinking" about it so much and actually participate. Funny how something so simple and in your face can be so powerful. Just doing the thing.

Or when socializing, just get the dude across from you. Don't dramatize it or make crazy shit out of it. Just get him.

Not even to mention how much more freeing of a life it can feel. Simple and direct.

Reminds me of a quote somewhere that went something like "Zen is the de-symbolization of the world."

Could just be a useful direction in general. Can feel a bit contemplative at times. Could be the direction in which contemplation "leans." Outside of all the "concepts," or "chatter." Just what is actually true

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