Always a big fan of paradox, I was intrigued to hear the advice that "If you want complete freedom, live by the rules."
The analogy the speaker used was driving a car. If you choose to speed in your car, you create tension and put pressure on yourself. At the very least you are on the look-out for cameras or police patrols; plus, the people who won't drive as fast as you will keep getting in the way, slowing you down, making you more. But if you slow down, you can concentrate more on driving itself - come back to the moment and the task at hand - and join in with everybody else at a slower speed.
I like this most particularly because it highlights a major - and continuing - character defect, something that is guaranteed to dislodge me from the present. I look at the world and my instinctive thought is to spot an angle or a wheeze that will make things easier for me: Is there a short cut somewhere? Or something I can do to make things quicker and simpler?
The analogy the speaker used was driving a car. If you choose to speed in your car, you create tension and put pressure on yourself. At the very least you are on the look-out for cameras or police patrols; plus, the people who won't drive as fast as you will keep getting in the way, slowing you down, making you more. But if you slow down, you can concentrate more on driving itself - come back to the moment and the task at hand - and join in with everybody else at a slower speed.
I like this most particularly because it highlights a major - and continuing - character defect, something that is guaranteed to dislodge me from the present. I look at the world and my instinctive thought is to spot an angle or a wheeze that will make things easier for me: Is there a short cut somewhere? Or something I can do to make things quicker and simpler?
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