Self Awareness and the interchangeable partner
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 8:53 pm
I'm struggling with something but not sure if it is just my conditioning fighting back
This is from Anthony De Mello's "Awareness":
"A young man came to complain that his girlfriend had let him down, that she had played false. What are you complaining about? Did you expect any better? Expect the worst, you're dealing with selfish people. You're the idiot - you glorified her, didn't you? "
That's taken a little out of context but you can google down the preceding text which basically says it is our nature to be selfish, and even when we are helping others there is selfishness at work ... all fine with that.
But lets say I was enlightened. As De Mello would have put it, "I had woken up". Would this mean if someone came and changed my wife for another woman that wouldn't bother me at all? How could it? I would be relying on neither for my happiness and neither could do anything to annoy/upset/depress me.
This is from Anthony De Mello's "Awareness":
"A young man came to complain that his girlfriend had let him down, that she had played false. What are you complaining about? Did you expect any better? Expect the worst, you're dealing with selfish people. You're the idiot - you glorified her, didn't you? "
That's taken a little out of context but you can google down the preceding text which basically says it is our nature to be selfish, and even when we are helping others there is selfishness at work ... all fine with that.
But lets say I was enlightened. As De Mello would have put it, "I had woken up". Would this mean if someone came and changed my wife for another woman that wouldn't bother me at all? How could it? I would be relying on neither for my happiness and neither could do anything to annoy/upset/depress me.