Endlessness and Reincarnation

Suppose the satan sneaks into your loneliest solitude sooner or later or one evening,

and says to you:

your current and previous life,

is the life you need to reside once more,

the life you need to reside numerous instances.

there’s nothing new in it.

However all of the pains, all the fun, all of the unspeakable issues, nice and small, which have been in your life should return to you in the identical order,

Even this spider amongst the bushes with this ray of moonlight, even this second with myself.

The everlasting hourglass of existence turns up and down, many times,

And also you, who strikes with it,

you might be nothing however a speck of mud.

– Nietzsche, The Homosexual Science

———

When Yi Zhize wakened, the very first thing he felt was a burst of extraordinarily brilliant mild.

Like a sort of information or a sort of decline, he seemed up, and earlier than him sat the physician.

Ou Tingyun smiled at him, mild and well mannered: “Mr. Yi, please sit down.”

In no hurry to chop to the chase, the physician poured him a glass of heat water, “Is it raining exterior?”

Yi Zhize began to get a headache.

He subconsciously took out his cellphone and seemed on the time on the display screen.

September 12, 2021.

The day they first met.

Respiration barely suffocated, Yi Zhize seemed incredulously on the individual in entrance of him.

Himself, was he already lifeless?

It’s stated that individuals who have simply died will replay the occasions they’ve skilled of their lives like a revolving horse lantern.

So, after going by means of this reminiscence, what sort of finish would he be going through?

Ou Tingyun laughed: “Mr. Yi? It is simple to misconceive while you stare at me like that. If I keep in mind accurately, that is our first assembly.”

Yi Zhize softly stated, “I am sorry.”

“Forgive me,” Ou Tingyun’s smile was informal and relaxed, with a touch of imperceptible conceitedness: “do you are taking me for another person?”

“No.” Yi Zhize denied, “No.”

“It is autumn, however at the moment of yr, there’s at all times rain.” Ou Tingyun requested, “Mr. Yi has some moisture in his hair, did you overlook to convey an umbrella?”

“It wasn’t raining after I went out.” Yi Zhize did not know why he was persevering with the dialog with him, however for no matter cause, he did not need to depart both.

If all the things may begin once more, maybe, Yi Zhize thought, they would not have come thus far ultimately.

“Trainer,” Yi Zhize stated, “assist me with hypnosis.”

Even understanding that this was an internet woven by unreal recollections,

even understanding that it was a entice and a cage that he had laid for him from the start,

however, however….

———

Love and demise have been paired collectively for the reason that starting of time.

The desire to like is the need to die!

Cowards, thus I say unto you!

They assume that morality may be all humble and tame,

however that is mediocrity.

though it is usually known as temperance.

All good issues have a thousand sources.

All mischief exists for pleasure.

How can they do it simply as soon as?

– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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The desire to like,

that’s preparation for demise.

Immoral decline,

how can they do it simply as soon as?

Within the therapy room, Yi Zhize closed his eyes and felt the physician’s contact and steering.

His mild voice in his ears, forgetting the years of sinking into confusion.

If he’s destined for catastrophe and everlasting reincarnation.

Then, ingesting poison to quench thirst is doomed to do nothing, it’s higher to fall with it willingly.

Yi Zhize stated, “Dr. Ou Tingyun.”

“Hmm?”

“I simply lied.”

“What?”

“I did mistake you for another person.”

“Did you?” The physician spared a thought, “And who did you mistake me for? Mr. Yi?”

“No, really I didn’t mistake you.” Yi Zhize checked out him, his tone chilly, his eyes deep, the teardrop mole on the nook of his eyes bewitching: “Would you be serious about enjoying a recreation with me?”

The Adam’s apple in Ou Tingyun’s throat rolled and a posh look flashed throughout the underside of his eyes, “As your psychotherapist, in line with moral rules…”

“Moral rules?” Yi Zhize started to chortle, “Trainer, with me, you do not have to say that.”

“I’ve an phantasm,” Ou Tingyun was near him, his heat breath in his ear, “are we…?”

“How would you like me to reply that?” Yi Zhize’s smile was faint: “If I stated, we have been as soon as lovers, would you consider me or not?”

“I’ve come into contact with many individuals with psychological diseases, and there are not any small variety of folks with delusions of grandeur,” Ou Tingyun stared at him, “however you don’t match the profile of a typical affected person affected by any sort of delusion. Maybe I can assume that you’re…”

“Sure,” stated Yi Zhize, “I am inviting you.”

“Why ought to I say sure to you?” Though he was already distraught, the physician pretended to stay subdued: “You might be my affected person, and I….”

“And also you, then again, are even sicker and extra hopeless than I’m.”

———

Lust: a venomous sting for all scorners of flesh in horsehair shirts, it’s a burnt-out pillar.

Lust: for the lowly rascal, a heat flaming hearth; for rotten wooden and stinking rags, a blazing hearth.

Lust: for a free coronary heart is freedom and innocence, the enjoyment of an earthly backyard; the longer term’s overflowing gratitude for the current.

Lust: a candy poison solely to the decrepit; an awesome comfort to those that have a lion’s coronary heart, a mellow wine rigorously saved.

Lust: a mannequin of the very best happiness and the happiness of the very best hopes.

This supple and dynamic flesh, this dancer, a specimen and image of its personal hedonistic soul.

– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

———

Within the midst of his lust, he reached a reconciliation along with his ego.

By this immoral dream of phantasm, it took him to the opposite facet of everlasting sleep.

They’re collectively, naturally.

They speak about regulation, morality, psychology, human nature, sin and judgement.

Their opinions usually contradict one another.

Neither of them can persuade the opposite, however they will perceive the opposite.

Neither of them is prepared to vary his thoughts for the opposite, however neither of them is prepared to vary the opposite’s thoughts.

And in each argument, that physician usually fell wanting the lawyer.

Like a successful common in a courtroom, Yi Zhize’s smile was bland, his tone cool and his logic clear, and he was a person you might not assist however be impressed by.

Reasoning is not any match for him, however Ou Tingyun is sort of a dishonest miscreant, a insurgent who does not play by the foundations, a gambler who ignores the foundations, who picks him up and drags him into the room for one more conquest of lust and pleasure.

They’re collectively, and the years cross simply, not understanding what yr it’s.

Reminiscences of the previous mingled with the current, and plenty of instances Yi Zhize couldn’t distinguish.

Was the truth of himself falling into such an illusory dream, or was the remembered previous nothing greater than a fantasy of his actual self?

On that day, Victor had simply returned to the agency from England.

The scene of their reunion was not fairly the identical because the one he remembered.

Victor nonetheless performed video games with him, reminiscing about his time at UCL Regulation Faculty, however didn’t convey the case of the British physician.

On the finish of his shift, Victor stated, “Yi, let me drop you off, I’ve one thing I need to discuss to you about.”

Having an ominous feeling, Yi Zhize declined, “No want, I’ve somebody coming to select me up.”

“Yi, in actual fact, I’ve just one function for returning to China this time.” Victor’s blue eyes have been stuffed with sincerity, “I’ve come particularly for you.”

“Victor,” Yi Zhize interrupted, “let’s cease right here at the moment, there are issues from the previous that needn’t be talked about now.

“Why not?” Victor stated stubbornly, “One thing has been bothering me for a very long time and I really feel I need to put an finish to it. I need to apologise to you once more for what occurred again then, and,” He pulled out a crimson rose with contemporary dew on its petals, “I will ask you to your love.”

Over Victor’s shoulder, Yi Zhize noticed Ou Tingyun.

The physician’s acquainted face was lined with a smile that made his hair stand on finish.

It was as heat because the wind, and delicate.

It won’t be apparent to others, however Yi Zhize understood.

Underneath his mild look, there was a sort of tyranny and insanity.

Yi Zhize calmly stated, “Sorry, Victor.” He walked over to Ou Tingyun and took his hand, “Let me introduce you to Mr. Ou Tingyun, my lover.”

Victor rubbed his nostril awkwardly and smiled graciously, “It was impolite of me. Properly, I want you happiness, Yi.”

On the way in which again, Ou Tingyun did not say a phrase.

Yi Zhize requested, “Tingyun, are you offended?”

“No,” Ou Tingyun rubbed his hair, “Ze Ze, I used to be simply pondering that you simply’re too good and I am afraid another person will steal you away, I am just a little scared.”

Immediately a lightweight rain fell on each of them, wetting their hair and garments.

Night time had arrived and the lights have been on.

Ou Tingyun stated, “Ze Ze, I used to be pondering that you simply actually know me too nicely. After we first met, you stated that I used to be very sick. And admittedly, it is true. Simply now, are you aware what is going on on in my head?”

Raindrops slid down the facet of his face, trickling into his collar and stirring up a slight chill.

The physician stated: “I used to be questioning, have been you plotting one thing, proper from the beginning? I do know there’s a sort of one that has at all times taken pleasure in enjoying with the feelings of others.”

Yi Zhize didn’t count on issues to develop like this.

Ou Tingyun checked out him innocently, “Ze Ze, all the things you probably did to me, each step of the way in which, was deliberate upfront and nicely thought out, wasn’t it?”

Yi Zhize felt his scalp go numb.

“Ze Ze, each phrase of reassurance, each promise, each second of tenderness you gave to me was only a rehearsed phantasm, proper?”

Yi Zhize started to tremble gently.

“Once I noticed you reject that man simply now, I imagined the state of affairs of you leaving me, what cause would you give? However none of that issues anymore.” Ou Tingyun stood within the rain, his eyes burning as in the event that they have been on hearth: “Now, I can now not reside with out you, so, it doesn’t matter what the means, you can not escape me, Zhize.”

The physician’s expression was clearly one among excessive paranoia.

Yi Zhize recalled the previous of mutual torture:

bloodthirsty killings, tyrannical monarchs.

Will it occur once more, in the identical means?

An excellent ache rose in his cranium, as if all the things on the earth was intertwined and torn aside.

He thought it may very well be modified, however ultimately, he couldn’t escape the joke of destiny.

Yi Zhize walked blankly into the wet evening.

“Ze Ze!”

Somebody known as out to him.

Yi Zhize heard somebody shouting for him.

There was the fierce sound of brakes in his ears,

the pungent scent of tyres on asphalt was between his nostrils.

There was the scent of blood.

However not like the previous,

Yi Zhize was pushed violently out of the way in which and stumbled over the sting of a muddy flower mattress.

In entrance of his eyes was,

his lover.

Collapsed in a pool of blood.

———

Think about this thought experiment:

If a demon have been to say to you,

this life, the life you might be residing now and the life you’ve gotten lived up to now, you’ll have to undergo it once more.

And it might be repeated many times an infinite variety of instances, and there could be nothing new in it.

All of the pains and joys, all of the unspeakable issues in your life, large and small, will come again to you.

All in the identical order and in the identical cause-and-effect relationship.

This gust of wind with these bushes, that muddy rock that made you lose your footing, that graveyard and the concern.

That heat second while you put your arm round me and whispered these phrases.

What would you do if all this is able to repeat itself many times?

– Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept