Is this so that American kids can grow up thinking they got shafted by those rotten arabs? Like the way Jews grow up thinking they are getting the shaft, and Jamaicans (Rastafarians) think they are getting the shaft, and Ethiopians (are really getting the shaft), and Women, and Natives, Blacks, Homosexuals and Domesticated Pets. It seems like they all grow up with victim complexes already.
It does sound like a joke. It is encouraging detachment and not "non-attachment" like Hindu and Buddhist philosophies do.
There is this whole field of psychology addressing the issue of "Domains of Contingent Self-Worth" which is what is described here as a "Goal". You set-up a goal in some domain, that domain and the goal is referred to as a "Domain of Contingent Self-Worth" if and when your sense of selfhood is contingent upon that domain.
Researchers discover that people whose self-worth is not contingent on any domain tend to outperform those whose self-worth is contingent on the domain. So right away, the solution is clear; don't be attached as if your self-worth depended on it. One can have goals, and struggle toward those goals without feeling a major hit to their ego when difficulties arise or failure is imminent.
Hindu and Buddhist philosophy basically teaches what these researchers are discovering; positive and negative self-valuations are not as productive as an absence of self-valuation. If ones goals are all self-serving, then one might want to consider adopting new goals. It is notoriously difficult for human beings to adopt non-self-serving goals though, or to even stop thinking about themselves for a half-second.
As important as history is, some truths are more important:
"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside." — Peter Deunov
What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you." — Peter Deunov
"If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you." — Peter Deunov
Simple, and I explained it before; There is a finite amount of money, and a finite number of people. Wealth is relative to how much money you own compared to your neighbours. If you want to be rich, then you also want other people to be poor. So if you are poor now, but plan on being rich sometime in the future, you don't want the distribution of money evening out. On the other hand if you want it both ways your acting the fool.
Wouldn't needle-point make for a sturdier craft and more possibilities? Like if you crocheted a death-star, how would you keep it from collapsing on itself?
Hey if people are sensitive to whether the sage is a chinese, hindu or American, then there is no sense in trying to impart wisdom on them. You'd get more out of arguing the correct pronunciation of "tomato".
Also; 5 Reasons Our Culture and Everything We Do is Counter-Productive and Other Cultures Have Justification For Being Weary Of Us (would be a good title).
We think that consumerism, materialism, social status, beauty and such like are the gateways to a sense of well-being, and so try to impose this value system on other cultures. But they view it merely as ignorance masquerading as virtue, and so one of the worst scourges on the earth.
There is this whole field of psychology addressing the issue of "Domains of Contingent Self-Worth" which is what is described here as a "Goal". You set-up a goal in some domain, that domain and the goal is referred to as a "Domain of Contingent Self-Worth" if and when your sense of selfhood is contingent upon that domain.
Researchers discover that people whose self-worth is not contingent on any domain tend to outperform those whose self-worth is contingent on the domain. So right away, the solution is clear; don't be attached as if your self-worth depended on it. One can have goals, and struggle toward those goals without feeling a major hit to their ego when difficulties arise or failure is imminent.
Hindu and Buddhist philosophy basically teaches what these researchers are discovering; positive and negative self-valuations are not as productive as an absence of self-valuation. If ones goals are all self-serving, then one might want to consider adopting new goals. It is notoriously difficult for human beings to adopt non-self-serving goals though, or to even stop thinking about themselves for a half-second.
2) Human Skull 3D Anatomy Model
Prejudice is generally not a conscious act.
Exceptions to categories do not invalidate categories but merely demonstrated the arbitrariness of all categories.
Beauty as a category owes itself to its opposite ugly.
"All animals were created equal but some were created more equal than others."
"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."
— Peter Deunov
What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you."
— Peter Deunov
"If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you."
— Peter Deunov
It makes sense if you understand neurological processes like habituation...
We think that consumerism, materialism, social status, beauty and such like are the gateways to a sense of well-being, and so try to impose this value system on other cultures. But they view it merely as ignorance masquerading as virtue, and so one of the worst scourges on the earth.