“Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”
Someone once asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most. This was his response:
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“We are injured and hurt emotionally
- not so much by other people
or what they say or don't say -
but by our own attitude
and our own response”
- not so much by other people
or what they say or don't say -
but by our own attitude
and our own response”
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What does "really living" in this effed up world mean anyway?
I guess the deeper meaning of what it is to ‘really live’ in this world is what we need to discover and experience whilst negotiating its more incomprehensible moments.
I guess the deeper meaning of what it is to 'really live' in this world is what we need to discover and experience whilst negotiating its more incomprehensible moments.
I'm confused. Is Man the most surprising thing ever because other species aren't also in many ways contradictory in their nature? Or was that just a convenient way for the website to introduce a quote?
This was a question asked and a response given. I can only add guesses to the quote and I would guess that the context here for reflection is around futility. Plus I would guess some lack of interest in cultivating insight into the nature of what drives us to continue to act in this way or even interest in looking at what is………?
I don't neccessarily think the world is "effed up" maybe just our society's priority's.