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    Lion Thoughts Volume 1: Life Is complex. Life Is simple.
    Lion Thoughts Volume 1: Life Is complex. Life Is simple.
    Lion Thoughts Volume 1: Life Is complex. Life Is simple.
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    Lion Thoughts Volume 1: Life Is complex. Life Is simple.

    By Samuel Bagot

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    Life is simple. Life is complex. Only dead fish swim with the current, and truth is our only sanctuary. This is a book of thoughts that a lion may ponder as they wake up. Be brave and wake the lion!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Waking Lion LLC
    Release dateJan 6, 2022
    ISBN9781733110235
    Lion Thoughts Volume 1: Life Is complex. Life Is simple.
    Author

    Samuel Bagot

    Just a man you passed on the road.

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      Lion Thoughts Volume 1 - Samuel Bagot

      The Thing That Is

      We don't know who we are, and we’re born into a place where we can’t explain our arrival. We make up ideas that fill the gaps to carry on, but ultimately, we don’t know why we’re here. We find ourselves in a place where we are born without our knowing consent. There is a history that we are taught that attempts to inform us of our past, but our only option in this place is to call things as we see them in the present. With that hazy form of discernment, we are here making decisions and just surviving. Religion comes into play in our journey at some point. People, governments, and control structures come into play as well. We are caught in the middle of all these circumstances, and life is confusing.

      God nowadays is more or less forgotten in the mainstream public experience. That all-knowing being, that many believe we’re a part of, is gone from our mainstream reality. While it’s impossible to say what God is, it’s important to think about. Old concepts from religions and legends try to inform us of what God is. There's Zeus. There's judgmental guy in the sky. There’s mother nature. There’s the spaghetti monster. Religions like Jedi and other designer religions exist which suggest that God is a force of some kind.

      But what is it really? What is that concept at its core, and why was it so heavily believed in the past. Why was it such a strong part of the past civilizations and cultures but is just gone now from modernity? Even atheists attempt to explain existence during their denial of purpose. Atheism is more or less just another religion of believing that we’re just here by science, rocks float in outer space, and we’re bags of chemicals. There are lots of definitions and attention paid to explaining our existence from many directions. Each school of thought attempts to define what God is, but they all seem hazy for some reason.

      When I open my eyes, I see a thing in front of me. It's ever present. It's the world. It's life. It's people, conversations, and time. This thing is omniscient in nature. It encompasses all energies and flows in a specific direction. It’s beautiful. It’s both happiness and sorrow.

      If you take a toaster oven and break it apart. It will be pieces, and each piece has a name. When you take those pieces and put them together, they make a toaster oven. Then you call it a toaster oven. If you break it in half, it becomes two halves of a toaster oven. But really, it's just a bunch of stuff. It's just a bunch of matter. The term toaster oven, springs, and power cord are just names that we give things so that we can talk to each other about them. We sometimes categorize things based on their use. You can use it to toast stuff like bread. You can also use a toaster oven as a hammer, right? You can use it as a paper weight. But we call it a toaster oven because we use it to toast bread, and that's what it's built for.

      Anyway, my point is that a toaster oven is lots of things. It’s a collection of individual things that in aggregate make up one thing depending on how we look at it. But in the end, it's actually just a collection of matter. The pieces of the toaster oven can be thought of in aggregate as one thing when they work in concert. Thinking on, this toaster thing has that same relationship with the table it sits on. There's the table, and there’s a toaster oven. But they can be viewed as a single thing. They are just two different parts. When you put the toaster oven on the table, it can be said to be a new singular object called a toaster station.

      The toaster station is now one thing in our minds. Every thing, any object that we would call a thing, actually has that relationship to whatever is around it. Transitively and intrinsically, everything has that relationship with every other thing in existence no matter their distance apart. This relationship is held between all things in existence, and by definition, all things can be seen as the same singular thing. The plane flying through the air is, in this way, the same thing as the fish swimming in the sea. They are the same thing when moving in concert.

      The sun rises, and in comes the day. It goes overhead. The sun sets, and the night starts. We see the moon. Then the sun comes up again, and it's a day. It goes away, and it's a night. Then it's a day. Then it's a night. But really, the sun is always somewhere, and it’s day there. Day and night are just aspects of our view. We label it day and night, but they are actually constant and work in concert in one motion. The day and night working in concert was here before us, and is just one long day in the end. There is no real separation between the days. You just like to sleep in the dark. And I don't blame you. I do too.

      It’s all really one long day, right? It's all the same day. It's just time. It's just this place. Our conversations are that way too. You wake up in the morning, and there is no one there. You talk to your dog, and, of course, I'm talking about myself now, right? You talk to your dog, and you fix some breakfast. You go to work, and you listen to the radio as you talk to yourself while you’re going to work. Who were you talking to that whole time?

      You get to work, and you say hi to someone in the kitchen. You talk about what you’re going to do that day and what you’re lining up in some project. That's a conversation with someone in the kitchen.

      Then you walk to your desk. While you’re hanging out on your own typing, someone else walks up to your desk. They start talking to you about something else. They may say, We have this thing to do, and what do you think if we did... That's a different conversation, right? But you think about a common thread of things in between all these conversations. The ideas you think about in between the conversations pertain to those conversations. You take information, stances, and emotions from

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