"A Sangha is a community of resistance, resisting the speed, violence and unwholesome ways of living that are prevalent in our society. Mindfulness is to protect ourselves and others. A good Sangha will lead us in the direction of harmony and awareness. The substance of the practice is most important. The forms can be adapted."What is a group for you?~ Thich Nhat Hahn
No, it's not an empty question. It's something important.
It's something that destroys you or creates you. I think so.
In the last period I visit many places where the persons are discuting this question. And for me it has it's enormous importance because I'm very hardly dipending from MY necessity to be a part of A group. Psychologically I'm "a cat that walks for it's own". But I need a group. Comes is from my communist education or is it an atrophysm of the dipendance of a child from his/her mother -I don't know, but I spend years to liberate myself from this dipendance. Unsuccessfully.
Well, the group has many good sides. (excuse me if I use not very good written words: it's deep night now, but I wanted to finish this post)
It organizes us, disciplines us and creates the sense of responsability, compassion, non-judgment. It gives us the sense of our "normality" if our interests are not normal in our society (ex.: interest for buddhism in a catholic country).
It gives us the human contact that we need soo much.
But the group destroys us.
It levels all the members normally.
You have to be as all if you want to be a part of a group. You have to be accepted and you have to accept the rules. A good individualism is not for a group.
Every group can help you till you have a space to grow in it. When you accept supremacy of group-leaders. When there is not a leader in a group, when all whant to be leaders, the group is finished.
So different thoughts about it...
And here you can download audios "Stages of meditation" written by Dalai Lama.
It's good to have a group but the group should be good. Otherwise, a man can be alone, like an island!
ReplyDelete..."It's better be alone that in the bad company" said avvocate Agnelli about joining FIAT with Mitsubishi...
ReplyDeleteLiudmila one plus one is two and two is always greater{mighter}in philosophic sense than one.Unite we stand.Iwant to remind you the story of heaven and hell where 12 people sitting with big swpoons but cant eat but in another room 12 people sitting with big spoons but eating by help of one another.According to my opinion Cooperation is key factor how big may be the group and everyone's aim should be one"THE BETTERMENT OF GOD'S CREATION NOT ONLY MANKIND"
ReplyDeleteMaybe you are right, Debasis. The group maybe is the best thing to understand our ego too.
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