The art of not giving
Traveli on his first visit to India, learns a lesson about fate and fatalism.
India has a tough lesson to teach about fate: It is often not up to us to change it.
India has numbed my repulsion of poverty (in much the way as my repulsion to illness, like the way I look away when a bloated African child appears on TV, remains unchanged).
It is the belief that one has no responsibility for another’s lot that enables one to get out of the entanglement of unnecessary guilt and attachment. Of course, if one is naturally disposed towards not giving, perhaps you should run the experiment in the reverse.
The most interesting thing about this post and the others was seeing the impressions that India forms on a newcomer and how it impacts their personal philosophy.
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Jayan
January 10th, 2008, 3:17 am | #
It reminds me of a post on getting desensitized on Rajni’s blog - http://rajni.vox.com/library/post/desensitization.html
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