The Happiness Podcast 30 - God, Love and Attachments
Nov 26, 2019
A lively exploration of how clinging and mental baggage block presence and clarity. Discussion of dropping fixed ideas to discover deeper truth and being fully here now. A look at awareness versus automatic programming and how true openness avoids gullibility. Reflections on how non-neediness frees relationships and how attachment narrows perception and hardens the heart.
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Dropping Attachments To Find God
- True God can't be an object you seek because seeking turns God into a concept.
- Anthony de Mello says mystics advise dropping attachments and baggage to discover God and present reality.
Practice Awareness Not Programmed Belief
- Be aware rather than mechanically adopting teachings or resisting them.
- Anthony de Mello warns that neither swallowing words nor resisting them lets awareness arise; stay open and alert.
I Really Don't Need You Story
- Anthony de Mello recounts telling a friend the startling truth I really don't need you and the relief it brought.
- He describes enjoying company without clinging, removing jealousy, possessiveness, and anxiety.