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by ArtWomb
2332 days ago
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No thank you qwertygerty, for the lovely digression ;) I've always felt that you can't be liberated from your attachments, if you don't fully realize what it means to be enslaved by them in the first place I've always thought the subject of Renunciation in Hindu Philosophy would make the subject of a terrific screenplay There's a film you may enjoy, one of my favorites actually, The Razor's Edge (1947), written by Somerset Maugham Young American, born at the right place and the right time, who instead of contributing to the booming growth that would place his nation at the forefront of nations, chooses to chuck it all and "idle" for awhile Here's the scene he arrives at an Ashram in the Himalayas after a chance suggestion from a stranger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGwAoLhJE4 |
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"...the myst caught in the treetop. I've never seen or felt anything like it!" " I felt as if I've been released from my body" "sense of knowledge more than human"
Return to _silence_. Without the distraction of others and the world, ie isolation. And in there, after the mind-chatter waned, he found _himself_
I've very recently had similar amazing experiences in the wilderness of mountains where it felt like I was beginning to melt away into it all. Very peculiar! Something I want to go back to... --
Just did a quick search for philosophy around this movie, the theme of existentialism comes up among others. http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/razors.htm
I'll have to spend some more time here :-D --
Renunciation. Yes, that's a tough one. "renunciation of material desires and prejudices, represented by a state of disinterest and detachment from material life, and has the purpose of spending one's life in peaceful, love-inspired, simple spiritual life"
In my own struggles with existentialism, I find the deeper I go into spirituality, the more I naturally experience "disinterest and detachment from material life". It just happens. What's most interesting to me, is as this happens, also the world seems to fight back, like it wants to pull me in again, not just the struggle with worldly desires, but things like these out-of-the-blue amazing "opportunities" arrive, that when looked at, is just a very polished way to try and pull me back into the world!
Life is amazing indeed.