The Happiness Podcast 38 - How to Transform Your Being
Jan 30, 2020
A clear call to transform your inner being rather than just actions. Exploration of repentance as a new way of seeing, not guilt. An invitation to replace willpower with willingness to think differently. A challenge to recognize suffering as conditioned reaction, and to test openness to true change.
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Transformation Starts With Being Not Doing
- True transformation is a change of being, not doing or willpower.
- Anthony de Mello cites Meister Eckhart: if your being is good, your works will shine forth, so you must see differently first.
Be Willing To See The Unfamiliar
- Stop trying to fix yourself by effort and instead cultivate willingness to think the unfamiliar.
- De Mello warns openness plus questioning avoids gullibility, quoting Buddha to examine teachings like a goldsmith examines gold.
Suffering Is Disturbance Not Pain
- Suffering comes from being disturbed by pain, not pain itself.
- De Mello contrasts pre- and post-enlightenment depression: feelings may persist but you're no longer disturbed by them.
