Are we humble enough?
By GovindJoshi
@GovindJoshi (6)
India
November 17, 2009 8:11am CST
Humility is word that is losing it's real meaning as the days go by. I am not talking about the one shown by us when we really don't mean it and do it more out of politeness. Neither am I referring to the one shown by the celebrities when getting the award.
I have found humility to be so fulfilling. It gives you a sense of contentment even though the world is becoming faster and angrier.
Please share your thoughts and experiences.
4 responses
@gautman (3)
• India
18 Nov 09
I feel that humility is not necessarily developed through the course of one's life but rather retained. The most unadulterated display of humility can be observed in the behavior of infants. They come to this world equipped with only their emotions for interaction and a very impressionable mind for observation. As the child grows, the mind adapts to a society where concepts like competition and differential advantage are pretty much running the system. This coupled with materialism and the quest for accumulating wealth cultivates an ego dominated world view. The ego places the self higher than anything else and for it to do that it subconsciously convinces the individual that all the people in the world are as separate from the self existentially as they seem to be physically. This is the root cause of all ignorance and lack of humility in modern society i feel...lack of a holistic perspective on the human experience; we all experience happiness and suffering so why am i any different from you?
Questions of and relating to the spiritual and the metaphysical are now irrelevant to many as the fast paced, one-touch, materially oriented world is keeping people from popping their ego bubbles :)
Strayed a bit from the point there but i guess you got the gist of what im trying to say :D
@GovindJoshi (6)
• India
19 Nov 09
Thanks gautman for your response. Well I would say as you develop all skills this could be a skill that can be developed too. You are right we keep losing it from the day we are born but the loss can be stemmed if we are concerned enough.
We go after materialism because we feel tempted and its one of the easiest things in life. To be tempted. The real tough thing is to avoid temptation and it requires a lot of practice. Besides you have to Surrender to Him to be able to do it. Your will alone in this will not help as in other materialistic pursuits.
You feel instant gratification my materialism and the gratification lasts for a relatively short period where as the benefits of humility last a life time and beyond and it takes years for the results to start manifesting
It's definitely not easy to start in this path, but if one does get out of materialism and venture, I am sure it will be a path worth taking.
Thanks
Govind
http://bit.ly/2NdWcs
@gautman (3)
• India
19 Nov 09
Delayed gratification vs overnight satisfaction.. indeed. I would also add that fighting temptation could possibly be be an unnatural way to be more self realized. What if our understanding of the material world penetrated beyond superficial speculation and we saw it for what it is entirely and not what we think it to be. You get what i am saying? Perceiving materialism in its absolute entirety..an out-of-the-nutshell view. Could this potentially eliminate the need for temptation to arise in the first place.....??
@GovindJoshi (6)
• India
19 Nov 09
Hi again!
As I said this cannot be achieved like we achieve other things in life. This is on a different plane altogether. Your need to surrender to Him, and then you start seeing the results.
Ordinary logic that works with most of day to day living in not applicable here.
Once you surrender you really don't have to do anything yourself. The temptations gradually start disappearing from your life and then you see the difference between the "now" and "then" life.
Thanks
Govind
http://firstlife360.blogspot.com/2008/08/humble-path.html
@lyte_face01 (64)
• Philippines
17 Nov 09
Hello GovindJoshi. I agree with you. We can hardly see people who are still having humility in their hearts. But I believe, that once in a while I can become humane and really internalize the feeling of humility. And it feels so good to have that sense of acceptance.
