aphorism 490

The pure experience of living.- What happens when one does nothing, what is left – should not one experience being oneself... If one cannot experience oneself, than how can one really experience life? So does anybody really experience life, or is it a sensation of colours and sounds, and a sense of the aesthetic? The experience of life is about belonging to life, rather than feeling through life. Living means living in life, or belonging to life, does one belong to oneself? But does one belong to life or oneself, one is attached to life, one does not belong to oneself, one is detached from life - one belongs to oneself. Does one want to belong to oneself….one should neither belong to oneself or to life but to tune oneself to the point when attachment meets detachment?

commentary

This is the aim of the chapter on Passion Of Being, for what is the purpose of living, but to have a true experience of life. Here we meet life, unlike the sexual encounter we may only meet another. And even here our experiences with others, are firstly our experience with ourselves. So what is the pure experience of living, how can one prove that such an experience of life exists, but living means being life, not just being oneself.