"Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
11.1.11
Non Attachment and Self-Realization
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Namaste, mar7aba, shalom aleichem Rana.
I came across your blog a few minutes ago through visiting your POF profile. I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading not just your profile, but also the blog itself. Non-Attachment is one of the most integral concepts that one can adopt into their lives if they wish to live a happy existence without worry of emotional hurt or let-down. Siddartha (Buddha) said that if a person is trying to transcend the pull of the material world and to feel non-attachment toward it, then it is fitting to say he is living in accordance with the way of truth. If he is liberated by this transcendence and non-attachment, then you can say he has found nirvana both here and now. What I find interesting about this concept is that Siddartha included detachment from the material world in his 'aat paramite' (eight perfections), which ironically enough, are not much different from the teachings of Christ, Baha'u'allah or the other Prophets, sages and religious leaders of history. We as a society can benefit so greatly from the teachings of Eastern philsophies but unfortunately we as Westerners are trapped in our own self-righteous bubbles where the Judeo-Christian ethic is given precedence above all else. As a Christian myself, I do not reject anything that is true and holy in these Eastern philosophies. I feel that as a free-thinking human being who lives by the moral code given to me by Christianity, it my moral duty, with sincere reverence, to respect those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones my faith holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that 'truth' which enlightens all men.
I look forward to reading more of your blog in the coming days.
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Namaste, mar7aba, shalom aleichem Rana.
I came across your blog a few minutes ago through visiting your POF profile. I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading not just your profile, but also the blog itself. Non-Attachment is one of the most integral concepts that one can adopt into their lives if they wish to live a happy existence without worry of emotional hurt or let-down. Siddartha (Buddha) said that if a person is trying to transcend the pull of the material world and to feel non-attachment toward it, then it is fitting to say he is living in accordance with the way of truth. If he is liberated by this transcendence and non-attachment, then you can say he has found nirvana both here and now. What I find interesting about this concept is that Siddartha included detachment from the material world in his 'aat paramite' (eight perfections), which ironically enough, are not much different from the teachings of Christ, Baha'u'allah or the other Prophets, sages and religious leaders of history. We as a society can benefit so greatly from the teachings of Eastern philsophies but unfortunately we as Westerners are trapped in our own self-righteous bubbles where the Judeo-Christian ethic is given precedence above all else. As a Christian myself, I do not reject anything that is true and holy in these Eastern philosophies. I feel that as a free-thinking human being who lives by the moral code given to me by Christianity, it my moral duty, with sincere reverence, to respect those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones my faith holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that 'truth' which enlightens all men.
I look forward to reading more of your blog in the coming days.
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