It seems you’ve missed the point here on a point common to Eastern Wisdom and to systems theory. The “deep wisdom” which you would mock refers to the deep sense there is no actual “self” separate from that which acts, thus thinking in terms of “trying” is an incoherent and thus irrelevant distraction. Other than its derivative implication that to squander attention is to reduce one’s effectiveness, it says nothing about the probability of success, which in systems-theoretic terms is necessarily outside the agent’s domain.
Reminds me of the frustratingly common incoherence of people thinking that they decide intentionally according to their innate values, in ignorance of the reality that they are nothing more nor less than the values expressed by their nature.
It seems you’ve missed the point here on a point common to Eastern Wisdom and to systems theory. The “deep wisdom” which you would mock refers to the deep sense there is no actual “self” separate from that which acts, thus thinking in terms of “trying” is an incoherent and thus irrelevant distraction. Other than its derivative implication that to squander attention is to reduce one’s effectiveness, it says nothing about the probability of success, which in systems-theoretic terms is necessarily outside the agent’s domain.
Reminds me of the frustratingly common incoherence of people thinking that they decide intentionally according to their innate values, in ignorance of the reality that they are nothing more nor less than the values expressed by their nature.