Some people claim that they don’t need toknow how to die; they want to know how to live their life—as if death were not a part of life, and as if the fact of death didn’t raise questions about what kind of life is the wisest life to live. From the Buddha’s point of view, though, trying to avoid those questions is to bury your head in the sand.
The Dhamma faces those questions head on. In answering them, it provides a framework for deciding what are the wisest and most worthwhile things to do with your life as a whole: which actions will be skillful in bringing long-term happiness, and which will bring long-term suffering and harm. As you go through life, calculating which actions are worth doing and which ones are not, you’ll want to know what counts as skillful, and how long “long-term” actually is.
For instance, if you believe that actions can have an impact on future rebirths, your calculations will be very different from what they would be if you believed that actions gave no results, or gave results that went no further than this lifetime. In giving clear answers to these larger questions, the Dhamma offters much more than a guide to the present. It explains how to recognize past mistakes so that you can learn from them, and how to plan for a satisfactory future.
看到有人用读纯粹理性批判来催眠，突然想到为什么这类书能给人这种效果，只是因为抽象，无聊，枯燥，或者看不懂，就会有这般平复心情的功效？反之如果是耍手机视频就会出现完全相反的情况。看来这是对内容的反应决定的。看不懂的枯燥哲学因为大脑没有感觉没有情绪体验，所以就越来越平息，不同于刷视频那样入戏高涨情绪。
因为不明白播客才知道FreeFrom这个新“平台”，袁莉把这个她刚了解的社交应用当作是一种新的平台，其实就是Nostr的众多客户端里的一个新client，无论用哪一个客户端都是互通的，因为都是Nostr协议下的relay互联。恰恰因此不能类比地叫它“平台”，因为它被创造的目的就是打破平台对社交和信息的中心化控制。我们大家不是在同一个平台上而是彼此都独立，基于非中心的互联方式建立沟通的网络。这个网络没有platform，只有freefrom platform。
