Page 56 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 9

BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM - VOL 9
“There is a common error almost everywhere, that they think `I' as an enemy. That is a negative attachment, which makes it hard and impossible.” Basically this is another question that I have received from many abhyasis “Sir, I have been having this awareness, I feel like going for something, I must achieve this, this has become a barrier”. What difficulties you are talking about? In
the beginning we talked about negative thoughts. We thought anything that is connected with an aspiration is also an attachment and therefore is a barrier. Aspiration is an attachment surely but definitely not a barrier. Aspiration to reach a state beyond and beyond is surely an attachment to the concept of beyond and beyond but it is not a barrier. For nothing they will be going on worrying that ‘I have got this problem, Sir. I have got that problem Sir’. There is no problem as such. They think that the ‘I’ itself is an enemy and he says once you develop this type of attitude it is impossible to get rid of it and that is the problem of majority of the people who go by the name good. This leads to their behavior of saying that extraordinary expressions of humility. No humility, very very humble ways they have got. The humbleness is the cloak in which their ‘I’ is hidden. It’s a cloak, it’s a negative
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