2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Let me remind you that Sisyphus is an adult man who rolls a round stone up the mountain all day long, and in the morning the stone is again at the foot of the mountain, waiting for attention and care from Sisyphus, waiting for his strong and courageous hands that will roll the stone up the mountain again, after then the stone will roll down again - and this lasts forever.
The usual perception of this myth, familiar to many, is roughly as follows:
Like, this is the work of a fool, hard and senseless, useless. And the life of Sisyphus is wasted, everything is useless - after all, the stone is constantly pouring down. And Sisyphus in this context in all interpretations is portrayed and perceived as a sufferer, a martyr. And it seems as if something else is possible for Sisyphus, as if Sisyphus was punished, as if he was guilty of endlessly doing stupid meaningless work, doomed to endless suffering due to some kind of offense or mistake, and that, once paid off, his suffering would end.
But, what if you look at this myth differently, as, perhaps, no one has ever looked at it before.
Let's explore this myth with the look of a psychologically mature personality or, as it is commonly called in a psychological environment, Authentic, or, as personal growth trainers say, with the view of the Author, or, as spiritual leaders say, with an awakened look. In essence, the speech here is about the same thing, and all these concepts are synonymous.
And this is what a different view will show us.
Sisyphus has no alternatives to current reality - the position in which he is right now is the only possible state of affairs for Sisyphus in the universe. There is no other, maybe once it was, but now there is no - right now there is no alternative for Sisyphus. This is a fact that Sisyphus should accept and with which it would be worth reconciling.
That is, not to work and not to drag a stone uphill - Sisyphus has no such opportunity. Although Sisyphus would, apparently, strongly want this. But these are the conditions of the game - this option is not available. And it's time to realize this, our hero, Sisyphus. And this is what will begin to happen to Sisyphus as soon as Sisyphus realizes the inevitability of his pushing, his such - at the former glance - senseless and similar way of life.
And the most ordinary miracle will happen. Sisyphus, tired of struggling with his fate, tired of wanting otherwise, tired of waiting for help and hoping for changes, suddenly discovers that it is impossible to avoid this way of life, to avoid one's circumstances and work - it is impossible. What happens to Sisyphus at this moment?
And the following happens: Sisyphus stops suffering.
He is deprived of such a delicious and habitual drink of suffering that excites the blood.
Yes, Sisyphus continues to drag the stone uphill. And every morning the stone rolls back downhill.
But now Sisyphus is not saddened, not worried, not burdened. But not in words, but as a whole, in essence.
Sisyphus remains in the same conditions, Sisyphus continues to meekly do what is inscribed, only now there is no inner protest, resistance and struggle in this. Sisyphus ceases to struggle with the conditions of the reality that all his endless previous life, with all his fury and passion, he so wanted to avoid. Sisyphus finally realizes that he has no opportunity to escape his fate - and for the first time Sisyphus sees this clearly, directly. With Sisyphus, for the first time, in his endless life, filled with suffering and torment, humility and peace happen. With his thoughts, he ceases to desire another fate, ceases to desire another. So in Sisyphus, the most subtle and elusive phenomenon of psychological resistance, which in Christianity is called pride, and in classical psychology, the ego, stops. And if you exfoliate myths, speculation and speculation from this phenomenon, then the essence of ego or pride is protest, disagreement, struggle, resistance and, of course, suffering.
Outwardly, for Sisyphus, absolutely nothing changes, but the “internal” change is radical. Sisyphus is there, in the same, with the same and with the same, but Sisyphus no longer suffers.
Is this realization really that difficult?
At first glance, no, but for some reason, literally in everyone, one way or another, to a greater or lesser extent, the Sisyphean struggle and Sisyphean labor take place. And the point, it seems, is only in the sweetness of the fruit, in an addiction to this sweetest fruit of evaluations, judgments, comparisons, attempts to control, desires, aspirations, improvements, hopes, an addiction to the fruit of its own importance, peculiarity, value, need, unusualness - which consciously, not a single creature in the universe is able to let go. It's so scary to lose this sweet taste - that's the only thing.
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