billy's basic detachment practice

[Billy]

Really though, the pressing inclination associated with societal standards is a sure ingredient of unhappiness.  Go 'within' without worldly measurement.

EDIT:  Going within, I identify the angst that causes the pressing inclination.  One can spend a lifetime of speak and of knowing the issue rationally, but never get the empirical experience to make a difference.

I know you know the general sense of existential acceleration and reaching forward; THAT has to be reigned in.  One learns to hold that tension the right way and to harness one's unruly horses.   Observation(s) of this energy is why one gains detachment.  But, as serloco does, one detatches to have the space or indifference to slow the process and pay attention.  Then you must ACT to change what has been habitually ingrained.  Once you have the empirical understanding to do this, lots of resource (and 'idea'--and spirit) come to help).  To 'seek' or 'resolve' can be more of the same problem.  You have to learn satisfaction in just SEEING (truth) as these doings happen.  In later reflection, you certainly will have a potable realization of progress.  I mean, I was one of the furthest from awareness and enlightenment as a young man.  Later, it did not take genious self-reflection to know that I had become more aware, and what it is I did to have clarity.

Understand too, I am still capable of a goodly amount of stupidity.  I've covered this before.  One does not essentially change 'human insufficiency.'  Nevertheless, I'm enlightened--{big amount of smiling here  (but not because i'm pulling your leg, but rather because being enlightened is to be lighter)}