So it's full of tubes and pink slime :-)

Yeah: except it takes damn DECADES to pry one's unconscious-LifeMind from its beloved nonresponsibility/unconsciousness trance.

No valid alternative, though: remaining unconscious, when the consequences of that are .. uncontrolled reincarnation, simply "throwing the dice" & hoping that one's continuum/soul catches-in a fortunate life, among all the lives of this, or all, worlds .. is insanity.

Nearly-all lives aren't fortunate, let-alone human-category-AND-fortunate.

( I accidentally earned multiple soul-memories of other/previous incarnations, which weren't human, & then, years-later, discovered what those strange memories were.

1 was a particularly-stupid-fish-with-bad-eyesight, given away by the side/side/side motion, whenever I tried going anywhere.

The awesomest was a bee/wasp/hornet life, probably in Central Africa: the 2-ish seconds of that one was just wobbling-around-in-the-air seeing some scrawney little-clothed dark people, 1 of whom was falling v-e-r-y-s-l-o-w-l-y from my perspective..

but the fundamental lesson was that my soul/continuum didn't care .. it was kinda drunk, or unconscious, itself .. so all the lives it got caught-in .. it just sat there, like a drunk who saw their family just get crushed-to-death but was too drunk to feel anything ..

Since "my" soul/continuum is that way, about all the lives it's had thus-far, it'll be that way with "me", too.

Since it's too unconscious to care, then I'm on my own.

Since nearly-all its incarnations, nearly-all the lives it got itself caught-in, weren't human-category, therefore pretending that human-category-lives are somehow "guaranteed entitlement" .. is self-delusion, only.

Since humankind's working on eradicating fortunate-lives from the world as hard as it can, for ideology's sake .. opportunity's vanishing.

Universe recycles all souls, perpetually, until they grow-up, purify themselves, & pull themselves "out from the muck" of karma/cause->effect.

Therefore all the religions are just cultural-"makeup" slathered on underlying-physics.

Souls just keep getting "churned" until they purify, & when they do, they pull themselves out, by their own bootstraps, from the "churn".

All the ethnic/religious/cultural appearances .. are only "makeup" hiding the underlying facts.

& the charnel-ground dwellers of Vajrayana were the rightest: living among sliced-open corpses is about the intensity required, for causing one's unconscious-mind to grow TF up, even slightly.

Unconsciousness is the fundamental, primary, bedrock addiction underlying our lives: all the "drugs" are just "icing" versions of the fundamental-addiction underlying us all.

Anyways, I'll downvote this so that it won't appear near the top, but if anybody cares, this is what tested-to-be-true.

Climb your inner-mountain, & keep getting-up when you fall: there's no actual alternative. )

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Do you meditate?

Is that why meditation can make you angrier?