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The Path to Mindcoolness #3 – Asking Why

April 9, 2016 Dom 8 Comments

In his unpublished manuscripts, Nietzsche wrote:

sieh hinaus! sieh nicht zurück!
man geht zugrunde,
wenn man immer zu den Gründen geht

nieThis exhortation translates roughly to: “look forward! look not back! one perishes if one always reverts to the reasons.” It’s an invocation of mindcoolness:

  • Let your Will not be thwarted by overconsideration.
  • Quiet your mind and march forth, undeterred by overthinking.

For reconsideration disempowers the Will, replacing vigor with doubt, replacing How with Why. Thus Crowley declared:

May Because be accursèd for ever!
If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.
If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

croTo follow your True Will, you must act bold and determined:

  • You decide, then you stay true to your decision.
  • You think, then you act and never think again.
  • You do not worry or hesistate.
  • You follow your Will wherever it may lead you.

Insecure people are trapped in overdoubting minds; they do not walk the path to mindcoolness—for mindcoolness knows no reason why.

Crucify relentlessly whatever thoughts prevent you from taking action!

And let the seasons rule over you. In the spring of your soul, you take action and never ask why—you plant the seeds of wisdom. In the autumn of your soul, you reflect and come to know thyself—you harvest life experience. The less you cry why in summer, the richer wisdom your winter will yield.

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Comments

  1. Adail says

    June 1, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    Great blog, new follower. May I use your term “mindcoolness” in a new portuguese blog with the same intentions of this?

    Reply
    • Dom says

      June 5, 2019 at 10:37 am

      Certainly.

      Reply

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Dom is a European man keenly devoted to the gods of sylvan wisdom. He is also a cognitive scientist and philosopher by training, a data scientist by trade, and a strength athlete and martial artist at heart. [Read more…]

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1. Freedom is the degree to which one does one’s True Will.

2. True Will is what one wants to do in a state of mindcoolness.

3. Mindcoolness is the absence of dysfunctional emotions that perturb rational thought and diminish intelligence; more deeply, it is self-knowledge and freedom from egoic identifications.

4. Know thyself, then do what thou wilt.

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