#ryan bush

[funeral]

The Buddhist belief called anatta, or nonself, states that the concept of the self is entirely an illusion, and that the person you think you are today is a different entity from what you were ten years ago, or even ten seconds ago. You are an ongoing and constantly evolving process - an aggregation of uncontrolled perceptions and cognitions. Nonself serves as a reminder that we are not unified egos, but parts of an ongoing and constantly evolving process – an aggregation of uncontrolled perceptions and cognitions. We are not discrete beings detached from all others, but inextricably tied to the collective of all sentient beings.

Ryan Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

[nousrose]

The way your mind is structured will determine the person you will become, the life you will live, and the fulfillment you will realize. When you modify your mind, you make changes to the operating system at your core and change your personal trajectory. And when you make a persistent occupation of this endeavor, you become the architect of your own character.

Designing the Mind

Ryan Bush

[funeral]

There is a massive and growing gap in our culture between skill and wisdom - a gap that is becoming increasingly dangerous. Modern culture is obsessed with the external. We appoint leaders who present thin veneers of strength and superficial accomplishment. We pay so much attention to these facades that we fail to inquire into their foundations. As a result, we live in a world whose fate increasingly falls in the hands of the least wise and most power-obsessed individuals.”

Ryan Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

[funeral]

As technology becomes exponentially more powerful, the consequences for faulty thinking and dogmatism will rise exponentially along with it. Nuclear weapons, bioengineering, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence are all quickly advancing. All will become more powerful, less expensive to create, and easier to wield. And all will pose threats to the very existence of humanity. If we are unable to conquer the human tendencies to believe and act according to dogma and desire, the same forces which cause destruction and war today will cause total extinction tomorrow.”

Ryan Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

[funeral]

The special thing about the western narrative is that every industry which can make itself vaguely relevant is fighting for a piece of it. Just as our culture builds onto our genes and creates new decoys to well-being, our economic system builds onto culture and introduces more diversions still. Businesses capitalize on the great tourist traps of life - the things which are presented as highly desirable by culture and industry, but are not necessarily good deals at all. And in order to sell these fantasies, they have to find ways to shape culture to tell us what it means to be 'successful.'

Ryan Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

[funeral]

Our culture is highly goal-oriented in that it advocates setting and pursuing goals as effectively as possible. But it places much less emphasis on ensuring that one is setting the right goals. We naturally acquire beliefs about which goals are worth striving for from our culture just as we acquire beliefs about the world, and every culture has its own 'success' narrative. This narrative assigns arbitrary milestones that deem people 'successful' after they meet them. And we’ve all heard our culture’s success narrative a thousand times.

Ryan Bush, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

[chickenbonethrone]

Ficus Interfaith R+P

at U.S. Blues

[justincharge]