{"id":668945,"date":"2026-03-05T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=668945"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:25:42","slug":"the-point-of-life-is-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/the-point-of-life-is-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"The point of life is ease?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it looks like I\u2019m getting back into my philosophical self, this is a great idea: my general idea is, the point of life is not difficulty overcoming whatever\u2026 But rather, a life of maximum ease?\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subtlety and the new ones is, it is out of strength and abundance\u2026 Everything you do is slow and unhurried, no resistance, no panic, no annoyance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ufffcit\u2019s a sense of ease that comes out of abundance. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How and why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t think all the money in the world is worth one night\u2019s lost sleep. I would rather be an ERIC KIM sleeping a glorious 9 to 12 hours a night, unbothered, unhurried\u2026 Enjoying my bitcoin, enjoying the sunny southern California sun, weightlifting topless, barbecuing in my backyard, thinking philosophy writing philosophy and artwork\u2026 And empowering others without annoyance to myself. To never have to entertain meetings, drive and be stuck in traffic, or seek money from others. Because I have bitcoin for that. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How and why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Taoism, \u201cWu-Wei\u201d, essentially means action without strained effort. That means you never force anything you just do things naturally, unhurried and unrushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, you don\u2019t need to force gravity to force water down a stream it just does it. Also you don\u2019t have to force a tree to grow just give it some sunshine, water, and it will naturally grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having to force things in the American sense is foolish. And also, <strong>seeking some sort of self glorification through pain and suffering and overcoming is indecent<\/strong>. \ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc pain and suffering and overcoming is for slaves, the master lives at ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the nuance is you don\u2019t have to be a trillionaire, \ufffc or even a billionaire. Even if you are a modest millionaire you\u2019re good. \ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it looks like I\u2019m getting back into my philosophical self, this is a great idea: my general idea is, the point of life is not difficulty overcoming whatever\u2026 But rather, a life of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668946,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668945\/revisions\/668946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}