#lyingflat — Public Fediverse posts

Worth considering "lying flat" is less about avoiding happiness and more about preserving the nervous system.

IMHO: Many are choosing to honour their deep selves instead of glorifying the "hustle" that leads to chronic bracing and burnout.

Instead of judging the lack of traditional productivity, we should look deeper.

Compassion means understanding that a system reset is often the first step toward true, long-term self-respect.

#NervousSystemHealth #SelfRespect #LyingFlat

https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/why-we-need-to-stop-striving-to-be?r=4ot1q2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Philosophy #QuietQuitting #LyingFlat #Competition #Philosophy

The case for ‘lying flat’ (躺平)? 🤔

🇨🇳 CCP's subjects are working their asses off — building their own prison. Think about it.

The never-elected #dictatorship is nothing without its voiceless and rightless 'masses' as a labour force.

Now with the added pervasive #surveillance panopticon — achieved with foreign inventions and technology — those subjects have practically zero chance of ever organizing functional resistance against their armed overlords.

💡️ The only ways of *not collaborating* with their repressors are either 1) fleeing into exile or... 2) "lying flat" (躺平).

That is, doing the absolute minimum to survive without participating in any productive pursuits aiding the regime.

A (far) more dangerous option would, of course, be working to instill the #UnitedNations enshrined civil liberties which the CCP consider as its existential threat...

#CCP #PRC #china #chinese #Hongkong #Hongkongers #Tibet #Tibetans #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #Mongolia #democracy #humanrights #躺平 #lyingflat

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell #translation

Ch. 20

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?

How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.

I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharper;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;

I alone don’t know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts.

#TTC #TaoTeChing #Tao #Dao #Taoist #Chinese #Philosophy
#LyingFlat #TangPing #Taoist