Det finns mycket som klassas som andlighet och 99% av det är ren dynga så det är inte konstigt att folk tittar snett på konceptet.
Det finns däremot en liten skara som pratar om andlighet på ett radikalt sätt. Något som är svårt att svälja och som inte handlar om läror utan om sånt man själv kan undersöka och fundera på.
Ett återkommande tema bland dessa få är att allt lidande kommer från våra felaktiga antaganden, främst om vad som leder till lycka, men även rent generellt om all personlig tro vi har, på koncept, idéer och så vidare:
En till återkommande tanke är att man behandlar det genom att öppna ögonen och verkligen titta på allt man utgår från som om det vore sant, vilket är varför det kallas att vakna upp.
Ligger det något i det? Är det falsk tro som leder oss in i lidande? Stämmer det att allt vi har ett psykologiskt beroende av är av ondo?
Det finns däremot en liten skara som pratar om andlighet på ett radikalt sätt. Något som är svårt att svälja och som inte handlar om läror utan om sånt man själv kan undersöka och fundera på.
Ett återkommande tema bland dessa få är att allt lidande kommer från våra felaktiga antaganden, främst om vad som leder till lycka, men även rent generellt om all personlig tro vi har, på koncept, idéer och så vidare:
Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Do you have any attachments to people or things that you falsely believe you could not be happy without? Make a list of them right now. Spend some time seeing each thing you cling to for what it really is—a nightmare that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, and unhappiness on the other. Father and mother? Nightmare. Wife and children, brothers and sisters? Nightmare. All your possessions? Nightmare. Your life as it is now? Nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot live without? Nightmare.
There are even people who dread to challenge and lose a pet theory, ideology, or belief they are attached to. Do you want to know how to measure the degree of rigidity and deadness attachments cause? Observe the amount of pain you experience when you lose a cherished idea, person, or thing. The pain and the grief betray your clinging, do they not? That is why, when life bursts in to shatter your illusions, you experience so much pain. An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.
Whenever you are anxious and afraid, it is because you might lose—or fail to get—the object of your attachment, isn’t it? And any time you feel jealous, isn’t it because someone might make off with what you are attached to? Almost all of your anger comes from someone standing in the way of your attachment, doesn’t it? See how paranoid you become when your attachment is threatened? You can’t think objectively. Your whole vision becomes distorted, doesn’t it?
Every time you feel bored, isn’t it because you are not getting a sufficient supply of what you believe will make you happy? Of what you are attached to? And when you are depressed and miserable, the cause is there for everyone to see: Life is not giving you what you have convinced yourself you can’t be happy without.
Do you have any attachments to people or things that you falsely believe you could not be happy without? Make a list of them right now. Spend some time seeing each thing you cling to for what it really is—a nightmare that causes you excitement and pleasure on the one hand but also worry, insecurity, tension, anxiety, fear, and unhappiness on the other. Father and mother? Nightmare. Wife and children, brothers and sisters? Nightmare. All your possessions? Nightmare. Your life as it is now? Nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot live without? Nightmare.
There are even people who dread to challenge and lose a pet theory, ideology, or belief they are attached to. Do you want to know how to measure the degree of rigidity and deadness attachments cause? Observe the amount of pain you experience when you lose a cherished idea, person, or thing. The pain and the grief betray your clinging, do they not? That is why, when life bursts in to shatter your illusions, you experience so much pain. An attachment, by its very nature, makes you vulnerable to emotional turmoil and is always threatening to shatter your peace.
Whenever you are anxious and afraid, it is because you might lose—or fail to get—the object of your attachment, isn’t it? And any time you feel jealous, isn’t it because someone might make off with what you are attached to? Almost all of your anger comes from someone standing in the way of your attachment, doesn’t it? See how paranoid you become when your attachment is threatened? You can’t think objectively. Your whole vision becomes distorted, doesn’t it?
Every time you feel bored, isn’t it because you are not getting a sufficient supply of what you believe will make you happy? Of what you are attached to? And when you are depressed and miserable, the cause is there for everyone to see: Life is not giving you what you have convinced yourself you can’t be happy without.
En till återkommande tanke är att man behandlar det genom att öppna ögonen och verkligen titta på allt man utgår från som om det vore sant, vilket är varför det kallas att vakna upp.
Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy, there is one and only one thing you need to do—get deprogrammed and get rid of those attachments.
When people stumble upon this self-evident truth, they become terrified at the thought of the pain involved in dropping their attachments. But the process is not a painful one at all. On the contrary, getting rid of attachments is a perfectly delightful task, that is, if the instrument you use to rid yourself of them is not willpower or renunciation, but sight.
All you need to do is open your eyes and see that you do not really need the object of your attachment at all—that you were programmed, brainwashed into thinking that you could not be happy or you could not live without that particular person or thing.
When people stumble upon this self-evident truth, they become terrified at the thought of the pain involved in dropping their attachments. But the process is not a painful one at all. On the contrary, getting rid of attachments is a perfectly delightful task, that is, if the instrument you use to rid yourself of them is not willpower or renunciation, but sight.
All you need to do is open your eyes and see that you do not really need the object of your attachment at all—that you were programmed, brainwashed into thinking that you could not be happy or you could not live without that particular person or thing.
Ligger det något i det? Är det falsk tro som leder oss in i lidande? Stämmer det att allt vi har ett psykologiskt beroende av är av ondo?
