Sunday, February 28, 2010
Second Teaching, The Bhagavad Gita
In this chapter, it constantly explained about the true insight. It talked about how the acceptance of everything brings peace. (p. 40 “When suffering does not disturb his mind, when his craving for pleasures has vanished, when attraction, fear, and anger are gone, he is called a sage whose thought is sure.” P. 42 “When he renounces all desires and acts without craving, possessiveness, or individuality, he finds peace.”) But I think the peace that the teaching is talking about comes from the numbness of feelings. Surely, anger comes from desire, and anger may cause confusion. Having no desire might lead to the lack of angriness lack of disorder. But desire and anger is what makes people become stronger. The desire of wanting to become stronger, the anger towards the unfairness, is what makes people move forward. I mean, what joy is Krishna talking about when being blind of the other side of love? The joy that he doesn’t need to be disheartened by any kind of happening? If he is “freed” from any kind of desire, love, hatred, then what is he fighting for in the “sacred duty”? To vanish all of those who doesn’t have the understanding he has? I believe that the acceptance is not being numb to your feelings, to step on them as if they don’t exist. But to suffer with them and feel the pain.
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