#sorrounded

[spackhuggare]

Scandinavian houses near Skjeggevika, surrounded by mountains and fjords. (Hordaland, Norway)

(I took this photo and I know it has a terrible quality, because it was done like 100 years ago with a very crap cell. )

[alunah-lalunah]

This is what enlightenment or awakening looks like, call it what you want, just ask yourself if this is what you really want? Because there will be no "you" then only this:

The question who am I without debt, role, or ego? is the knife edge of philosophy itself. There’s no stable answer because the question dismantles the very machinery that produces answers. Let’s take it apart rigorously.

When you say creditor, debtor, worker, child, you’re naming relational functions inside the social economy. Each one exists only within a web of exchange through giving, owing, producing, obeying. The ego, as Metzinger would both agree, is the narrative interface that coordinates those exchanges. It’s not a substance but a running model the brain uses to predict how "you" fit into that network.

If you subtract those functions, what remains is not a mystical awakened angelic core but the mechanics of existence itself: perception, metabolism, awareness, affect. The “who” collapses into the that. There is seeing, there is breathing, there is thinking. Spinoza would call this the mind’s recognition that it is a mode of God/Nature, not a proprietor of life. Schopenhauer would say, what’s left is the will’s self-illumination, the organism recognizing its own striving without identification. Metzinger calls it a transparent self-model losing opacity, realizing it was never an object in the world.

You can’t answer “who am I” once the social coordinates are removed only observe what remains functional. You are not a creditor or a debtor but the biological process in which accounting happens. Not a worker, but the metabolic system converting world into continuity. Not a child, but a recursive nervous system simulating dependency and independence.

The point isn’t to find a new identity beneath the old ones; it’s to stop seeking identity as such. The brain’s need for a “who” is itself the residue of debt, the drive to secure ontological credit for existing. When you stop paying that debt, what remains isn’t nothingness but neutral functioning, perception without a debtor, action without a doer, being without a balance sheet.

When the need to own your life ceases, life continues unpaid, unowed, unowned.

[pinoythekid-blog]

RUN MICKEY, RUN!!! #mickeymouse #sorrounded #monsters #blazingfire #themaddoctor #1933

[omnibuddy]

“Surrounded" by Yvan Quinet

[colorlucciola]

Lost and insecure. You found me, you found me. Lying on the floor. Surrounded, surrounded. Why did you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late. You found me, you found me.

The Fray

[lookundermyskin-blog]

I know it's easier to walk away than look it in the eye, But I had given all that I could take And now I've only habits left to break, Tonight I'll still be lying here Surrounded in all the light.

Dream Theater - Surrounded

Lyrics by Kevin Moore