Lost Passion

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" Mind is interested in what happens, while awareness is interested in

the

mind itself. The child is after the toy, but the mother watches the

child,

not the toy. "

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

The text of Maharaj has to be taken literally. The mind indeed is a

child's structure. Have you ever watched your thoughts, your

reactions, you emotions for a longer time ? Then you must have

realized that you are still the child you ever have been, no matter

how old you are now. It is not because you are childish or dumb or

careless, no no - it is so because our brain works that way, is

conditioned that way. This way how we are functioning could also be

called " God's hypnosis " which means God has hypnotized us believing

in growth and in the reality of our self-images. " God " is just a

metaphor for " that what is " .

 

To have that awareness watching the mind, one needs a certain amount

of passion to do that and to go on with it. About that passion

follows some text of J.K.

 

Werner

 

 

Lost passion

 

The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel

that and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or

purpose, to listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own

desires which you have, plenty of them, weak or strong when you do

that, you will see what a tremendous damage you do when you suppress

desire, when you distort it, when you want to fulfill it, when you

want to do something about it, when you have an opinion about it.

 

Most people have lost this passion. Probably one has had it once in

one's youth to become a rich man, to have fame and to live a

bourgeois or a respectable life; perhaps a vague muttering of that.

And society which is what you are suppresses that. And so one has to

adjust oneself to you who are dead, who are respectable, who have not

even a spark of passion; and then one becomes a part of you, and

thereby loses this passion.

 

J. Krishnamurti