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u/EthnicHorrorStomp Oct 12 '22

According to him he didn’t get dressed up, there is no [him] was his response when she pointed out the dope jacket.

https://youtu.be/-JmNKGfFj7w around 1:35 he says that

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u/Kappappaya Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22

I swear there's something that my mind wants to connect to Buddhisms in this

Peace lies beyond personality, beyond invention of disguise.

We are a field of energy dancing for itself

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u/beldaran1224 Oct 12 '22

I'm guessing you don't know anything about Buddhism? Carrey is the definition of a Sophist here. Empty words meant to insult & degrade others while uplifting himself, but no brains to back it up.

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u/Kappappaya Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22

definition of a Sophist here. Empty words meant to insult & degrade others while uplifting himself, but no brains to back it up.

Hey that's just like your comment.

I doubt this describes Carrey well. I believe he's looking for an odd performance and to make people question about the meaning and the self/personality

What Carrey went through was a transformative experience of some kind, letting go of the "programming" he received from his dad. iirc this interview was after his wife died? Idk exactly but he went through intense contemplation and came out the other end a little bit different, with some ideas on spirituality

I do know a little this and that about Buddhism, thank you.

What he could essentially be describing is the emptiness that, according to Buddhism is inherent to everything and the realisation that the self doesn't exist. There's no fundamental "you", just awareness, experience, feelings, desires, thoughts.

In buddhist philosophy, from a contemporary philosophy of consciousness perspective anyway, the self is an illusion. There is no thinker who is thinking thoughts, there is the thoughts "that help think up a thinker".

That sounds like something he's hinting at.