Good article! You got me thinking about something. Even Sisyphus only suffers if he believes there is something required of him. And thus he suffers because he cannot achieve it. He could choose to make it a contemplative practice, and it would become a meditation. And he could find peace in it. Or he could simply choose not to do it. Give up his resistance, and let the rock fall to the bottom of the hill, And knowing that in doing so, it would no longer have any power over him.
Absolutely! Camus actually talks about this in his essay: "For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.” If we can suspend our need to ascribe meaning to life, we can finally relish the experience by simply living it. It's an idea prevalent in eastern philosophy. Camus would be stunned to know that he's actually a Buddhist. Lol.
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Good article! You got me thinking about something. Even Sisyphus only suffers if he believes there is something required of him. And thus he suffers because he cannot achieve it. He could choose to make it a contemplative practice, and it would become a meditation. And he could find peace in it. Or he could simply choose not to do it. Give up his resistance, and let the rock fall to the bottom of the hill, And knowing that in doing so, it would no longer have any power over him.
Absolutely! Camus actually talks about this in his essay: "For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.” If we can suspend our need to ascribe meaning to life, we can finally relish the experience by simply living it. It's an idea prevalent in eastern philosophy. Camus would be stunned to know that he's actually a Buddhist. Lol.
You may be correct there!