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Offline Endless~Knot

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Shopping Mentality
« on: September 11, 2009, 07:36:50 PM »
"The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a "shopping mentality": shopping around from master to master, teaching to teaching, without any continuity or real, sustained dedication to any one discipline. Nearly all the great spiritual masters of all traditions agree that the essential thing is to master one way, one path to the truth, by following one tradition with all your heart and mind to the end of the spiritual journey, while remaining open and respectful towards the insights of all others. ...

The modern faddish idea that we can always keep all our options open and so never need commit ourselves to anything is one of the greatest and most dangerous delusions of our culture, and one of the ego's most effective ways of sabotaging our spiritual search."

From Sogyal Rinpoche's: Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee

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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 04:40:20 AM »
wear a hole in your pants at the bum

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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 11:26:35 AM »
wear a hole in your pants at the bum


sometimes you say the weirdest things  :D
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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 07:22:41 PM »
These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Where did you go? "Nowhere."
What did you have to eat? "Nothing much."

Even if you don't know what you want,
buy something, to be part of the exchanging flow.

Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

-- Rumi, 'We Are Three', Mathnawi VI, 831-845

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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2009, 08:52:08 PM »
It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.


See?  Rumi agrees with me.

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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2009, 09:49:45 PM »
This was a good add to this thread, thanks Myr :)

These spiritual window-shoppers,
who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Where did you go? "Nowhere."
What did you have to eat? "Nothing much."

Even if you don't know what you want,
buy something, to be part of the exchanging flow.

Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.

It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.

-- Rumi, 'We Are Three', Mathnawi VI, 831-845

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee

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Re: Shopping Mentality
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2009, 09:51:05 PM »
See?  Rumi agrees with me.

Rumi would think you're a nut  :D
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is uniquely your own.” - Bruce Lee