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11056008 No.11056008 [Reply] [Original]

How do I transcend most normal human emotions and dedicate myself fully to art? I don't want to care about any negative emotions that trouble ordinary people, I just want to be committed to producing the best possible art. Did any historic writers, painters, composers and renaissance men achieve such a state?

>> No.11056020

>>11056008
Just do it and stop listening to the voice that says you can't. Meditating helps with realizing that voice is not you but just another sense perception.

>> No.11056024

>>11056008
Isn't that a self defeating attitude? How can you possibly create art by willing yourself to be a passionless machine.

>> No.11056035

they typically was very much in touch with their emotions from my knowledge.
The way to rid yourself of emotions is to know them and not look away but not caught up with them - get soft like flesh and strong like bones, become a human.

>> No.11057040

>>11056008
Become Buddhist?

>> No.11057080

>>11056008
Advanced meditators usually describe a state of being that is like what you are describing. Most modern people who claim to have reached enlightenment say that their thought stream, or mental chatter, permanently stops, until they direct it, or “invite” their mind to engage on something.

Vinay Gupta says, “About 15 I started to meditate, about an hour a day, sometimes 2. I was physically ill at the time; I had nothing but free time. Although I’m half Indian, I had no real exposure to Hinduism as a tradition. I just started to meditate because there was nothing else to do and it seemed to help. After 6 years of an hour or something a day, after a very, very intense, shall we say, “collaborative celebration”, in the morning after the trip, we were having a kind of debriefing session. In my head, as we were talking, I saw an amplifier, just a very simple aluminium amplifier with a big knob, little blue LED on it, and I saw my hand reach down and turn the knob off. And my internal dialogue completely stopped. This was about 1993, 1994 and it never came back.

Living in the condition of having no internal dialogue, no flow of thoughts, no flow of images, just Smack, into the present is quite an abrupt thing. For the first couple of weeks I thought I’d gone completely mad. Oh my god I’ve totally broken myself. I’m fucked. And I discovered that I could still go to work, and I could still socialise with people and I could cook and get through all the basic things of life. Nobody outside of me seemed to notice any particular change in my behaviour, even though I was lost in this rapturous state of total absorption with the world. Wow, this is amazing, woah! And then life continued.”

>> No.11057095

>>11056008
entertain god and your ass will follow