Guest guest Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 The best present you can give to a human being is to listen to him with attention and true interest. http://www.wewalk.net ____________ Renovamos el Correo : ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo..es Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Nisargadatta , Caminamos <caminamosnet> wrote: > The best present you can give to a human being is to > listen to him with attention and true interest. > > http://www.wewalk.net > Aha! True interest you say! If I _pretend_ to be interested, if I make an individual _effort_ to be interested, is that true interest? In other words, can there ever be true interest when there is a personal choice being made to be interested. That's something to look into very deeply. Is interest created out of the need for being polite, socially correct, or loving in a way one think one _ought_ to be, is that true interest, i.e. does true interest come from _thinking_ about _how_ to be interested? Does true interest need an internal committee meeting, where one's mind is using social conditioning indirectly as a tool of comparison? When we think: " should I be interested in this person? Yes or no? If I make myself interested this or that could happen, or if I ignore him or her, then this or that could happen.......what would my friends think of me if I would be interested........what would they think if I was not interested......should I be interested......or should I not be interested........ " - internal committee meeting! /AL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Drop the mind Message: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:07:10 -0000 " anders_lindman " <anders_lindman Re: The best present Nisargadatta , Caminamos <caminamosnet> wrote: > The best present you can give to a human being is to > listen to him with attention and true interest. > > http://www.wewalk.net > Aha! True interest you say! If I _pretend_ to be interested, if I make an individual _effort_ to be interested, is that true interest? In other words, can there ever be true interest when there is a personal choice being made to be interested. That's something to look into very deeply. Is interest created out of the need for being polite, socially correct, or loving in a way one think one _ought_ to be, is that true interest, i.e. does true interest come from _thinking_ about _how_ to be interested? Does true interest need an internal committee meeting, where one's mind is using social conditioning indirectly as a tool of comparison? When we think: " should I be interested in this person? Yes or no? If I make myself interested this or that could happen, or if I ignore him or her, then this or that could happen.......what would my friends think of me if I would be interested........what would they think if I was not interested......should I be interested......or should I not be interested........ " - internal committee meeting! /AL ____________ Renovamos el Correo : ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo..es Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2005 Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 Nisargadatta , Caminamos <caminamosnet> wrote: > > Drop the mind Drop the local mind, you mean, which is the veil of separation clouding the non-local mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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