424 Dissolving Attachment in the Openness of Being – Macclesfield 04-05_02_2017 12
424 Dissolving Attachment in the Openness of Being – Macclesfield 04-05_02_2017 12
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- Last Highlighted Date: 2024-08-21 06:16:56.094522+00:00
Highlights
- Embrace All Emotions for True Connection
Summary:
Acknowledge that despair, hopelessness, and meaninglessness are integral parts of human experience, just like happiness and joy.
Attempting to shield oneself from these darker emotions leads to isolation and intensifies the struggles of those enduring despair. Embracing the full spectrum of emotions fosters genuine connections and helps others find paths out of their sorrow, ultimately contributing to a more compassionate understanding of life’s complexities.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
This is a kind of public relation, stuff that’s getting Buddhism very, very confused. The idea that you can become happy in a world where disasters are happening is disgraceful. You know, a Buddhist monk called the happiest man in the world. I mean, this is shameful because if you’re alive, you’re going to be touched and moved. We’re going to feel sad. We’re going to feel despairing. We’re going to feel hopeless. These are colors on the palette of life. We don’t need to paint with them all the time, but if you’re trying to protect yourself against despair, you’re cutting yourself off from people who feel despair. And if you cut yourself off, they’re left in their despair, and so it’s more likely that their despair becomes a totalizing, a totally defining feature of their existence, and that’s The sort of thing that drives people towards suicide because they can’t find a way out. Whereas if we start to see that despair, hopelessness, meaninglessness are just as much part of life as happiness, playfulness, feelings of camaraderie and inclusion, then we start To see what the potential means. Everything is part of me.
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