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The whole path
Trail markers on no path
It's okay to want a path.
What Scott says
if anything, you're going backwards, So it's not, it's just, it's one of those things where like the mind tries to deduct it and put it into a system or a path. And it for me, it's much more like this complex landscape of like a hundred paradoxes. But I think the general idea is if, if for me at least, having a path, having specific trail markers that are like, you're doing good. You passed this trail marker, right?
That helps, right? If you're sitting there and you're meditating and you have no, there's no path, there's no, you know, you're Zen, and there's no goal and there's no nothing, you feel like people give up, Doesn't make any sense. So, you need some carrot So, I think the having enough carrots, which are helpful, like you have to direction, but always knowing that it's all just an illusion, like there's not really anywhere to go. Like, if anything, you're going backwards,