The Happiness Podcast 47 - Have You Ever Felt Disgusted with Life?
Mar 5, 2020
Questions about feeling trapped, exhausted, and disgusted with routine life. Exploration of the emptiness behind chasing degrees, careers, and achievements. A call to nurture the flame of discontent by honestly examining your attachments. Discussion of how temporary thrills turn to suffering and why most avoid facing their own pain. An urging to transform disenchantment into genuine awakening.
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Discontent As A Doorway To Truth
- Disgust and weariness can signal a deeper inner discontent that points to truth about happiness.
- Anthony de Mello calls this a 'divine flame' of discontent that arises when you see life’s futility and must be fed, not suppressed.
Step Away And Feed The Flame
- Make time to step away from routine and consciously examine your life so the flame of discontent can grow rather than be stamped out.
- De Mello urges refusing distractions during this 'holy season' of self-examination to allow insight to deepen.
Nothing Outside Gives Lasting Happiness
- Nothing external can produce lasting happiness; jobs, people, places, techniques and gurus only give temporary thrills.
- De Mello highlights the pattern: initial excitement turns into pain if lost and boredom if kept.