Friday, August 13, 2010
Universal Loving Kindness
I tried to do this exercise really hard as suggested in the book but I found it really hard to read it out loud. The words may have a really great meaning but they don't exactly flow when read out loud. It is like reading a tongue twister. I tried it again reading it silently to myself and that gave me a lot more focus on the concepts of this meditation. After reading chapter 11, I believe that Dacher over-intellectualizes many of his concepts. If you think of his spiritual map with the 4 quadrants of experience which he then divides by three additional lines, you end up with a really complicated diagram of lines and curves.This does not seem to me to be a holistic approach to flourishing. I am far from an expert, but after reading this chapters I took a realistic look at myself. I thought about my strengths and especially about my weaknesses. There are some areas of development that I a really proud of and there are some that need a lot of work. I am accurately aware of both. And there are some areas that I know need to be addressed and some interpersonal relations that are absolutely toxic. However, I am only human with a finite amount of time limited to me and I am not sure that I will ever been able to resolve all of these issues. The truth is, I prefer to progress in a less disjointed manner and change what I can without worrying about quantifying or symbolically displaying my areas of development. I going to hobble on my disorganized journey to spiritual development and read Eat Pray Love.
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Hello Adienne,
ReplyDeleteI like your honest post this week. It is hard to look at your life through someones dipiction of what is right and how to fix it. I believe that Dacher has some good information and some good ideas. Its important that on our journey we take what we need and leave what we do not. Regardless of if he is right or wrong it is up to you to want to believe or change. Eat, pray, love from what I hear from my co-workers is a great book worth reading twice! So enjoy your process and do not feel judged for not agreeing with some author....nothing is right or wrong it just is. I believe that everything is in divine order...enjoy the process.
Hi Danielle, Thanks for the moral support. I sometimes think that life is complicated enough without trying to dissect it under a magnifying glass. As long as you go in the right , direction you are making progress even if you are taking a less complicated path :)
ReplyDeleteHi Adrienne,
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you have areas that you are proud of and know what areas you need to work on. I especially like your point about having a limited amount of time on this earth. Sometimes we realize that when it is too late.
I hope that you enjoy Eat, Pray, Love. I just finished the book and then saw the movie...of course the book is better than the movie by I enjoyed them both. It was nice to read and see some of my own feelings in that book and how the author dealt with them. It made me want to pack up and leave on an adventure! I hope you have a good experience reading it.
Adrienne, I appreciate your honesty, we all have several areas in our lives that need to be worked on. I personally know that there are a few areas I need to work on, but I agree it was a little confusing in the book. I believe that once I am conscious of the areas that need work, and take it one step at a time, it will eventually work out.
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