Pursue What Is Meaningful, Not What Is Expedient - Akira the Don

Meaning is what you have to

Buttress yourself against the tragedy of life

Despite the fact that you’re a fragile

Damaged

Mortal creature

You found something to do that announced itself as

Worthwhile

That’s meaning

It’s an instinct

It’s a deep-deep instinct

It’s maybe the deepest instinct

It’s like a form of vision

Meaning tells you when you in the right place

And the right place is between chaos and order

And those are real places, your hemispheres

Your right hemisphere is roughly evolved let’s say to deal with things you

don’t understand

That’s chaos

And your left is there to deal with things you do understand

You can’t just stay with the things that you do understand because you already

understand them

And you can’t just stay with what you don’t understand because then your lost

You need to be in the middle of those two

And you can tell when you’re in the middle

Cause everything lines up

Cause everything lines up

Expedience is you do the thing that gets you off the hook the fastest, right now

You play that game across time it doesn’t work

It sends you down

Because you’re sacrificing the future for the present

Meaning doesn’t do that

Meaning says «I'm here where I should be»

And you can’t tell why it’s just that everything is right

You get this physiological

Sense

Right place, right time

Follow this meaningful path

That’s your buttress against the tragedy that produces resentment and

malevolence

Meaning is the antidote to that

That’s the fundamental religious truth

Life is suffering

That’s true

There’s malevolence

That’s true

Meaning is the antidote to that

Yes

People say, «Well meaning isn’t real»

It’s like NO

That’s wrong

It’s actually

THE MOST REAL THING

It might even be more real than suffering and evil

It’s possible

This isn’t

A metaphysical assumption that I’m making

And you do feel it

It’s, you feel it in your body

It’s not just a

Mental thing

It’s not an idea

It’s a place

Because we’re in time and space, right

And a place is a place, you know

Three dimensions of space but it’s also a time

And when the place and the time are set up properly

You’re in the right place and

Your brain is telling you that

Your Being is telling you

The purpose of

Profound

Religious contemplation

Profound philosophical contemplation

Is to learn how to be in the right place at the right time

All the time

All the time

There’s this line from

The Gospel of Thomas which was discovered in like 1957

And it says

«The kingdom of God is spread out before the eyes of men but men do not see it.»

And that’s kind of what it’s referring to

There are times when you’re in the right place at the right time

And then you’re

Where you should be

And you’re not really trained to notice that

Because it isn’t something, we ever talked about

It’s like

You’re in the right place at the right time

Okay, why?

What did I do right?

What did I do?

I need to do more of that

So, maybe it’s only

Half an hour a week when you first start noticing

And then maybe with three months of practice you can get it up to like

An hour a day

And then maybe you can get it up to

Four hours a day

And god only knows where you could get it if you

If you keep practicing

You could be there

We don’t know what the upper limit of that is