This passage has sparked conflicting views in me regarding viewing pain/tragedy from either a self-growth standpoint or an aesthetic perspective.

On the one hand, perceiving pain as an opportunity for self-growth can help bring meaning and purpose in difficult circumstances. By focusing on the valuable lessons or realization that can be gained, I can turn a painful experience into something positive or transformative. In this sense, it can help me maintain hope and resilience in the face adversity.

On another, I may question if viewing pain from through a personal development lens is selfish or insensitive. By distancing myself from the emotions and pain of suitiation, I may also become a detached individual with a lack of empathy and disregard for those affected by my actions and mistakes.

#literature #morality

me rereading the persian boy after years and realizing how much of a fangirl self insert it sounded like then i eventually remembered the reason i wasn’t that much into it despite all the hype from the beginning was that it was essentially still an alexander+hephaestion fic but written from a third person’s pov

六 29-30
Furthermore if the Self were permanent
It would clearly be devoid of action, just like space.
So even if it met with other conditions
How could its unchanging (nature) be affected?
Even if when acted upon (by other conditions) it remains as before,
Then what could actions do to it?
Thus if I say that this (condition) acts upon (a permanent Self),
How could the two ever be (causally) related?

【隆】
彼我若許是常法 見無作用如虛空
縱遇一切諸外緣 終無轉變何所作
正作之時亦如前 能作於彼何所作
謂此是彼能作者 此中何法相聯屬

【如】
彼我若是常，無作如虛空。
縱遇他緣時，不動無變異。
作時亦如前，則作有何用？
謂作用即此，我作何相干？