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“Schopenhauer's insight suggests that individuals often perceive the boundaries of their own perspective as the boundaries of the world. This phenomenon extends to Buddhas, who may interpret the vastness of their own vision as the boundlessness of the world. It's why Buddhas may express ideas that appear ethereal, as consciousness is more fluid than solid and more dynamic than fluid. As a result, Bodhisattvas, those aspiring to full Buddhahood, are often more articulate than fully enlightened beings. Fully enlightened individuals primarily guide through realization, experience, and symbolism rather than relying on words. Their journey to enlightenment also entails certain losses, including a loss of eloquence, a loss of physical dexterity, a loss of bodily activity, and even a loss of human-like characteristics.”

“What draws ants to even the most remote sugar crystals? What entices bees to flowers? It's the fundamental code of life. Hunger is a taste of yearning your life code carries that, when seated into a human body, translates into mental and bodily desires. In the short term, within a single life, childhood limitations or arousals sow the seeds of desire. Most human goals frequently revolve around good food, good clothing, intimacy, artistic/scientific expression, or financial success. Across multiple lifetimes, it all ties back to our underlying evolutionary hunger. That is why some of our dreams are unexpectedly different from our waking life goals. That is why siblings born from the same parents, nurtured similarly, have weirdly different life goals. This multi-life journey, when unaware, is exactly what we attribute to destiny, and when a little aware, we attribute to Karma. Once these little tributaries are done with their own little flow, they flow back to the original river. In the grand existential scheme, as temporary and evolutionary desires are satisfied, we flow back with the current of existential fulfillment. Spirituality helps us ride the original current, fulfilled and free from temporary desires. Life, in its microcosm, is complex enough, let alone the macro one.”