If your pulse doesn’t race, you should be seeing a Doctor
Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Fellini’s: ‘La Dolce Vita’
Self-Denial is the first order of Moral Code. All Virtue aligns with it. All Vanity scoffs at it. Religions offer their denouement at the limit of self-denial, the perfection of self-mortification.
‘Civilization is self-restraint’ declared Rajagopalachari, once a distant neighbor, a man of scholarship and of God. The same was a favored maxim of Sigmund Freud, an acute observer of the Human Condition; and an Atheist.
My entire school education on Dharmic Discipline was summarized in the travesty of insight: ‘Desire is the cause of all suffering’. A literal take on the Buddhist ‘Second Noble Truth’, if you are curious as to where this beam of light came from.
So how does one: ‘Desire to Not-Desire’?
‘Detachment’ is arguably the single most emphasized injunction in the Dharma. So how do you intend to detach if you are attached to ‘Detachment’?
How do you play ‘Hide And Seek’ with yourself?
What denatured Elysium do these pilgrims seek sans wine, women and earthly-folly?
See: ‘The Scientific Stance’.
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