I was wondering...why it's sometimes so hard and difficult to deal with the events that happen in a day.
Take up traffic - when someone cuts through wrongly or drives extremely carelessly - why do we fume?
Why are we anxious about meeting people sometimes?
Why do we stay locked up when we have failed?
Why do we need to have better paying and prestigious jobs than others?
Why do we want our children to be prodigies?
When I analyze a lot of our behaviour it seems that we feel great only when we are "one up" on people. We want to feel superior to people in most ways - better job, better car, better house and then - better health, great body, good looks, etc. We feel a little bad if we are with people who seem too much above us.
Unknown to us, we do so much to just stay ahead. Right from the way we drive to our jobs to the things we do unconsciously, we do so much to stay on top.
Despite all my spiritual teachings, I do find myself trapped with this bug. There is a huge need to feel superior - to prove. Jealousy, comparison, insecurity, greed, etc.
I guess when you're in the physical plane, we are all driven by a common set of motives. Probably it is extremely difficult to break out of that conditioning. Somewhere Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest acquires new dimensions and meanings on the physical plane.
But when you look at Tao, Zen, Buddhism, etc it seems that everything that you value on the physical plane is absolutely detrimental to your mental plane. If we're ambitious and competitive how can we be compassionate? How can we be greedy and content? Does this regular life condition us and damage us so much that we have no chance of looking at a higher dimension?
Also, very apt words from Sadhguru:
Physicality means separation, boundaries. Spirituality means unity, boundlessness. - Sadhguru
Associated books that may help:
http://www.amazon.com/Status-Anxiety-Alain-De-Botton/dp/0375725350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404716698&sr=8-1&keywords=status+anxiety
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Sorrows-Work-Vintage-International/dp/0307277259/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GRJ4EGXMQ0Z3T7AFMWQ
Take up traffic - when someone cuts through wrongly or drives extremely carelessly - why do we fume?
Why are we anxious about meeting people sometimes?
Why do we stay locked up when we have failed?
Why do we need to have better paying and prestigious jobs than others?
Why do we want our children to be prodigies?
When I analyze a lot of our behaviour it seems that we feel great only when we are "one up" on people. We want to feel superior to people in most ways - better job, better car, better house and then - better health, great body, good looks, etc. We feel a little bad if we are with people who seem too much above us.
Unknown to us, we do so much to just stay ahead. Right from the way we drive to our jobs to the things we do unconsciously, we do so much to stay on top.
Despite all my spiritual teachings, I do find myself trapped with this bug. There is a huge need to feel superior - to prove. Jealousy, comparison, insecurity, greed, etc.
I guess when you're in the physical plane, we are all driven by a common set of motives. Probably it is extremely difficult to break out of that conditioning. Somewhere Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest acquires new dimensions and meanings on the physical plane.
But when you look at Tao, Zen, Buddhism, etc it seems that everything that you value on the physical plane is absolutely detrimental to your mental plane. If we're ambitious and competitive how can we be compassionate? How can we be greedy and content? Does this regular life condition us and damage us so much that we have no chance of looking at a higher dimension?
Also, very apt words from Sadhguru:
Physicality means separation, boundaries. Spirituality means unity, boundlessness. - Sadhguru
Associated books that may help:
http://www.amazon.com/Status-Anxiety-Alain-De-Botton/dp/0375725350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404716698&sr=8-1&keywords=status+anxiety
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Sorrows-Work-Vintage-International/dp/0307277259/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GRJ4EGXMQ0Z3T7AFMWQ
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