Overthinker

My buddy Texas sent me this song by INZO. The first time I listened to it I got full body chills. The lyrics hit home. After a few listens, I was curious about the origin story. Turns out it’s a sample of Alan Watts.

Questions to ponder: How can we be more present in our daily life? Like, not just white knuckling resisting our phone, but actually being engrossed in the moment/task/conversation? If Thinking should not be master, then what (or who) should be?

Lyrics #

A person who thinks all the time
Has nothing to think about except thoughts
So, he loses touch with reality
And lives in a world of illusions

By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull
Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words
Of reckoning and calculating
I’m not saying that thinking is bad
Like everything else, it’s useful in moderation
A good servant, but a bad master

And all so-called civilized peoples
Have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive
Because, through excessive thinking
They have lost touch with reality
That’s to say
We confuse signs
With the real world

This is the beginning of meditation

Most of us would have
Rather money than tangible wealth
And a great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed
And to read about it the next day in the newspaper
Is oddly more fun for us than the original event

This is a disaster
For as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs
We are destroying nature
We are so tied up in our minds that we’ve lost our senses

Time to wake up
What is reality?
Obviously no one can say
Because it isn’t words
It isn’t material, that’s just an idea

Reality is

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