Posted by Sigismund on October 11, 2013, at 17:53:19
In reply to Re: kindness and sacrifice, posted by Dr. Bob on October 10, 2013, at 2:29:29
> What keeps one from accepting being unimportant?
Living in a toxic culture of entitlement and narcissism in the anglosphere? No truly, I dunno.
You know round here there are people who believe that your thoughts can give you cancer? And therefore all the poor people in the world have bad karma? Cygnet is right....I do enjoy holding these ideas in contempt.
With loss and gain we are back to the famous passage in the Gita with Krishna and Arjuna. It's too difficult for me....and any human idea will be turned to any purpose.
I think most people are naturally caring at least some of the time. Though when I see some parents and think of the culture of entitlement and self-empowerment?
In one of my Peruvian books a curandero was saying 'Cuando pienso en Fitzcarraldo y estos hombres, preferiria ser serpiente'. That's more or less my bottom line.
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