ED; That hating must be in American Chistians, not in heatlhy Cristians from Europe. (though there are always the crazy ones all over the world) . I was brought up as a catholic and never hated myself. Thought there was a lack of proper education how to love oneselves and others at the same time. Do you know that some years ago I had an interesting conversation with a retired, very well educated Jesuit Priest?. Our conversation gave him inspiration to create several sermons all that week. Mayka
--- On Fri, 13/8/10, ED <[email protected]> wrote: From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 13 August, 2010, 18:19 This 'hating oneself' - or others - is a very Judeo-Christian attitude that permeates our culture. This identification of the (non-existent?) self with our thoughts and feelings, like the smell of garlic, can be quite difficult to eliminate. And, of course, that's where zazen comes in handy. --ED --- In [email protected], "Jody W. Ianuzzi" <j...@...> wrote: > > Hello Mayka, > > I used to feel the same way. I actually hated myself. Then I was reading a > book by the Dalai Lama and he said that he found the whole concept of people > hating themselves to be so alien and he couldn't understand it at all. > > I started to really think about that and I realized how he was so right. I > was able to break through my own self hate and now I actually LIKE myself. > Of course, when you like yourself you like everyone around you a lot more > too. > > JODY
