Sarbajit Roy wrote at 09/30/2012 10:28 AM:
The Gita, however, (as I'm fairly sure the Old Testament does too)
expresses that once a man's side is determined, he is obliged by DUTY
to do what is right, even if it involves heinous killings on a
massive scale or even the killing of his close
I hesitate to jump in as I was taught the Bhavagad Gita by a
professor/translator, not my mother or my local guru.
But, as I was taught ...
duty has almost nothing to do with the philosophical lesson of the
story. Arjuna's dilemma is not between kill and not kill, or deciding
between two
The only way I can imagine detachment being a form of attachment would
be that both attachment and detachment are limited to _partial_
[de|at]tachment. I.e. non-attachment must be some sort of singularity
approachable from either direction.
Think of attachment as: I must ensure that X comes to pass. I want it so
badly.
Think of detachment as: I must not want so badly that X comes to pass. I
must stay detached.
Think of non-attachment as: I may participate in the process whereby X comes
to pass -- or doesn't come to pass. If I
It's sort of like being cool.
If you act like you're cool, and go around telling yourself how cool you
are, you're not cool.
If you care about whether or not you're cool, you're not cool.
So if you get invested in how much you're not caring about whether or
not you're cool, you're still not
FWIW: I have read several interesting books lately that might be of
interest to some on this list:
Democracy Lost, by Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law professor - the
corrupting influence of money on Washington
The Price of Inequality, by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics
- the
Attachment / de-attachment / non-attachment etc are distractions from
the 2 paths
A) The path of self knowledge for people on the threshhold of enlightenment.
B) The path of selfless service for the others.
I can't really explain these things because of language and societal
differences.
Most
Hi David
The only place I would somewhat differ with your analysis is on the
accrual of Karma.
My own view is that Gita refers to 2 control loops
The Outer (slower / higher) Loop is on semi-attached Ethical evolved
norms. Analogous to a Voltage loop
There is a faster Inner Loop acting on
I liked my post on attachment. (Perhaps I'm attached to it.) Did it get
lost? I don't see it in any of the follow-up posts. Here it is again.
Think of attachment as: I must ensure that X comes to pass. I want it so
badly.
Think of detachment as: I must not want so badly that X comes to pass. I
