Relationship Is Not Possible Where There Is Greed, Ambition And Hope
This is a Challenge in the Pledge "Become A True Friend"
Quest Path
To find out if one can live with another in total harmony, in complete accord, so that there is no barrier, no division, a feeling of complete unity. Relationship means to be related, not in action, not in some project, not in an ideology or a concept, to be totally united in the sense that fragmentation doesn’t exist at all at any level.
Relationship is not possible where there is greed, ambition and hope
Relationship is not possible where there is greed, ambition and hope. Love comes only when the mind is quiet…If you have no love, you cannot resolve any social problem. You can go into politics, exhibit faith, try to reform the poor, write books or poems, but you are a dead human being.
Life is a movement in relationship. Relationship is not possible where there is self-seeking. Self-seeking includes fear, greed, envy, jealousy, ambition, despair and hope. Using another person as the means for your own happiness creates conflict and confusion. An image of someone – thoughts, experiences, hope – is not relationship. Only the person who understands the whole structure and process of society, and is freeing himself from it, has character, and he alone can flower in goodness.
If you have no love, you cannot resolve any social problem. You can go into politics, exhibit faith, try to reform the poor, write books or poems, but you are a dead human being. Any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not bring beauty or compassion. There must be freedom, freedom from compulsion. Love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centered. This is communion.
When the means of my happiness is a living person, then the conflict and confusion, the antagonism and pain are far greater. If relationship is based on mere usage, is there any relationship, except the most superficial, between the user and the used? If I use you for my happiness, am I really related to you? Relationship implies communion with another on different levels; and is there communion with another when he is only a tool, a means of my happiness? In thus using another, am I not really seeking self-isolation, in which I think I shall by happy? This self-isolation I call relationship; but actually there is no communion in this process. Communion can exist only where there is no fear; and there is gnawing fear and pain where there is usage and so dependence. As nothing can live in isolation, the attempts of the mind to isolate itself lead to its own frustration and misery.
Life is a movement in relationship. Relationship is not possible where there is self-seeking. Self-seeking includes fear, greed, envy, jealousy, ambition, despair and hope. Using another person as the means for your own happiness creates conflict and confusion. An image of someone – thoughts, experiences, hope – is not relationship. Only the person who understands the whole structure and process of society, and is freeing himself from it, has character, and he alone can flower in goodness.
If you have no love, you cannot resolve any social problem. You can go into politics, exhibit faith, try to reform the poor, write books or poems, but you are a dead human being. Any form of compulsion, however subtle, does not bring beauty or compassion. There must be freedom, freedom from compulsion. Love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centered. This is communion.
When the means of my happiness is a living person, then the conflict and confusion, the antagonism and pain are far greater. If relationship is based on mere usage, is there any relationship, except the most superficial, between the user and the used? If I use you for my happiness, am I really related to you? Relationship implies communion with another on different levels; and is there communion with another when he is only a tool, a means of my happiness? In thus using another, am I not really seeking self-isolation, in which I think I shall by happy? This self-isolation I call relationship; but actually there is no communion in this process. Communion can exist only where there is no fear; and there is gnawing fear and pain where there is usage and so dependence. As nothing can live in isolation, the attempts of the mind to isolate itself lead to its own frustration and misery.
How to Explore a Perspective
Relax, focus. Take a step back and look at the Perspective from all sides. Now, zero in at the center!
What is the Bias?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
What assumptions does it make? Whose interests does it serve?
What is your Personal Experience?
How does it make you feel? How do your experiences, privileges, and personal interests affect your understanding of it?
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▶ Find causes, not symptoms. Ask what lies at the root.
▶ Have respect for people with different views, insights, and priorities!
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