If you cry out of self-pity your tears have no meaning because you are concerned about yourself. If you are crying because you are bereft of one in whom you have invested a great deal of affection, it was not really affection. When you cry for your brother who dies cry for him. It is very easy to cry for yourself because he is gone. Apparently you are crying because your heart is touched, but it is not touched for him, it is only touched by self-pity and self-pity makes you hard, encloses you, makes you dull and stupid.
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- April 23, 2013 9:40 am
If you cry out of self-pity your tears have no meaning because you are concerned about yourself. If you are crying because you are bereft of one in whom you have invested a great deal of affection, it was not really affection. When you cry for your brother who dies cry for him. It is very easy to cry for yourself because he is gone. Apparently you are crying because your heart is touched, but it is not touched for him, it is only touched by self-pity and self-pity makes you hard, encloses you, makes you dull and stupid.
If it wasn't affection, then what was it????
If it wasn't affection, then what was it????
The whole of Buddhist, Taoist, etc... practice is centered around an an identification of the illusion of self and coming to understand it. Once it is understood, the suffering resulting from it can be quelled. When grieving for a loved one put your entire heart into it, but be sure the grief is for the loved one and not for a delusional self.
