holog schreef: ↑02 dec 2024 20:24
Ik heb gewoon even de naam gegoogeld, niet iets van gelezen of zo , wat de Google liet zien , gewoon kwa titels, vibe , enzo... eerlijk: spontane allergie reactie - of zoiets in die trend.
( geef eerlijk toe ik zal wel zeer bevooroordeeld zijn, ik kan me zeker ook voorstellen dat het wederzijds ook wel zo zal zijn).
Het is maar allemaal waar je aan toe bent.
De éne blijft hangen bij wat oppervlakkig gegoogle, de andere wordt geraakt door Byron Katie.
Mij is de twee overkomen.
Tweeentwintig jaar geleden gaf iemand me Byron Katie's eerste boek "l
oving what is" in handen en vond ik na wat oppervlakkig grasduinen erin het maar voor beginners en lachte het weg.
Negen jaar geleden zat ik voor de zoveelste keer weer met "een gebroken hart" vanwege "liefdes"-verdriet en begon Byron Katie's aanpak ineens te resoneren en kocht ik al haar boeken (zoals die onder) en bekeek ik alle video's van haar "The Work" op YouTube en begon ik te ontwaken.
FOREWORD
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A Mind at Home with Itself is structured around the Diamond Sutra, one of the great spiritual texts of the world. The sutra is an extended meditation on selflessness.
Selfless, in ordinary usage, is a synonym for generous; it means “acting for the benefit of another person rather than for yourself.” Its literal meaning, though, is “without a self,” which means both “not having a self” and “realizing that there is no such thing as a self.”
You may think that this second meaning is a spiritual concept, since trying to get rid of your self may seem as impossible as walking away from your shadow. But after you have practiced inquiry or meditation for a while, you can see that it is “self” that is actually the concept here, rather than “not having a self.” However hard you try, it’s impossible to locate anything in reality that corresponds to that noun.
To the clear mind there is no self and no other, as the sutra says, and once you understand this truth, selfishness radically subsides.
The more your sense of self dissolves in the light of awareness, the more generous you naturally become. In all its variations, that is the central truth that the sutra is trying to wake us up to.
Uittreksel van: Byron Katie. 'A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around'.
Onderstaande was negen jaar geleden helemaal van toepassing op mij met mijn "liefdes"-verdriet...
In this sutra, the Buddha talks about generosity, but he doesn’t talk about love. Why do you think that is?
Byron Katie: Love is usually thought of as an emotion, but it’s much vaster than that. Egos can’t love, because an ego isn’t real, and it can’t create something real. The Buddha is beyond any identity, and that’s what I see as pure love.
When I refer to love, I’m merely pointing to the unidentified, awakened mind. When you’re identified as a this or a that, a him or a her, any kind of physical self, body, or personality, you remain in the limited realm of the ego. If your thoughts are opposed to love, you’ll feel stress, and that stress will let you know that you’ve drifted away from what you fundamentally are. If you feel balance and joy, that tells you that your thinking is more in keeping with your true identity, which is beyond identity. That’s what I call “love.”
Uittreksel van: Byron Katie. 'A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around'.
En nog een kort citaat wat aansluit bij dit topic over ""De werkelijkheid bestaat niet"...
'To believe a thought is to exist in an imaginary world, however real it may seem.
Fragment uit: A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around
Byron Katie
- De enige constante in het leven is verandering.
- Spiritualiteit? Laat me niet lachen, dat is het leven zelf!