A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día - Flower of the Day 29/08/2015
“Um dos mais profundos condicionamentos do ser humano é acreditar que a
sua felicidade depende do outro. Por conta disso você tenta fazer do
outro um escravo para atender suas necessidades. Você exige que ele seja
do jeito que você quer, porque somente assim você se sente amado. Mas
se ele age um pouco diferente, sua ‘felicidade’ acaba. Essa felicidade
que depende da forma do outro agir é uma grande ilusão, é um produto da mente condicionada. A verdadeira felicidade é aquela que vem de dentro de você.”
“Uno de los más profundos condicionamientos del ser humano es creer
que tu felicidad depende del otro. Por eso intentas hacer del otro un
esclavo para atender tus necesidades. Exiges que él sea de la manera que
tú quieres, porque solamente así te sientes amado. Pero si él actúa un
poco diferente, tu ‘felicidad’ se acaba. Esa felicidad que depende de la
forma en que actúa el otro es una gran ilusión, es un producto de la
mente condicionada. La verdadera felicidad es aquella que viene de
adentro tuyo.”
“One of the deepest conditionings of the human being is to believe that one’s happiness is dependent on the other. Due to this belief, we try to make the other into a slave who will attend to all our needs. We demand that the other be exactly how we want them to be, because this is the only way we feel loved. If the other acts a bit differently, our ‘happiness’ disappears. This happiness that depends on the other’s actions is a great illusion and a product of the conditioned mind. True happiness comes from within.”
“One of the deepest conditionings of the human being is to believe that one’s happiness is dependent on the other. Due to this belief, we try to make the other into a slave who will attend to all our needs. We demand that the other be exactly how we want them to be, because this is the only way we feel loved. If the other acts a bit differently, our ‘happiness’ disappears. This happiness that depends on the other’s actions is a great illusion and a product of the conditioned mind. True happiness comes from within.”
Today's Daily Dharma: Ending the Internal Divide
Ending the Internal Divide
Most
human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces:
what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel
about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right
and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the
conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner
division drops away with it.
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