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Astasy
A
not-yet-an-enstasy
Astasy happens when a self (i.e. an identity) is
(experienced as) incomplete, unfulfilled, un-whole; ‘in bits’, ‘mess’;
excited, restless, in turmoil, hot, and so on. An
incomplete self, an astasy, is ‘not itself’ (i.e.
not a complete self) because it happens prior to (hence ‘off’ or beyond’) a
self (i.e. prior to an enstasy). Astasy (to wit, an incomplete, hence unidentifiable
pre-unit process) happens when a complete self (i.e. an enstasy or an ecstasy
proper, i.e. an order of 1, hence a unit) becomes (decays to become)
incomplete (i.e. a disorder). An incomplete, because not unitised or quantised (i.e.
whole, hence enstatic) self (a particular, hence relative enstasy) cannot
become (and experience itself as) a real identity (i.e. as a real (hence
true) self, i.e. as an ecstasy proper). Note:
A self (i.e. a quantum of difference) is relative. The relative (by not being
absolute) is incomplete. Hence all selves are incomplete. The absolute,
because it has no self (i.e. no difference), is also incomplete, and on three
counts. The
(negative) payoff (hence self-punishment) for becoming (actually emerging or
decaying as) an astasy, i.e. as a not-yet-a-self (i.e. as a not whole unit of
identity) (Buddhist: anatta) is sorrow, misery, pain, depression, anxiety
and so on (i.e. called dukkha in Buddhism). Obviously, since all
selves (i.e. units of difference) are relative, therefore incomplete, they
are all (eventually experienced as) sorrowful (as the Buddha claimed).
However, the relative (i.e. the fundamentally incomplete, hence astatic) can
be made absolute (i.e. complete, whole, fulfilled (Buddhist: atta,
Hindu: atman) and so on) and therefore joyful (a very common
experience which the Buddha chose to deny) if and when it is collided
touched, and which happens in a relativity vacuum.
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