“Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself. Although most of us were sincerely trying to work on ourselves, I noticed a widespread tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.― John Welwood
When we are spiritually bypassing, we often use the goal of awakening or liberation to rationalize what I call premature transcendence: trying to rise above the raw and messy side of our humanness before we have fully faced and made peace with it. And then we tend to use absolute truth to disparage or dismiss relative human needs, feelings, psychological problems, relational difficulties, and developmental deficits. I see this as an ‘occupational hazard’ of the spiritual path, in that spirituality does involve a vision of going beyond our current karmic situation.”
"Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it"
― William James
11 comments:
It seems you have a rather limited understanding of Buddhist philosophy/psychology. What you are describing is simply the which you see in yourself and transferring your experience to others.
In the process you make a conceptual judgment based in YOUR experience about them. Unless of course they were all non Buddhist or Dharma practitioners. Which is of course fine be that the case.
I commend you for at least trying. Enlightenment does not occur with a bang or fanfare.it just happens when you reconnect with who you really are. It's a practice and a discipline that leads you to a better understanding of what you've always possessed, but like most of us we just haven't awakened to it.
And those who say they've become enlightened most likely haven't. I recommend the 20 minute video, on you tube, with Richard Gere discussing Tibetan Buddhism, H.H. the Dalai Lama, and the documentary just out with His Holiness.
If you're sincere in understanding Buddhism better it's worth the 20 minutes of your time.
Or rather John Welwood's understanding is either limited or flawed by his own bias.
Richard Gere? I don't think so.
Your point? Listen with open mind. You just might learn something.
I don't look to celebrities for knowledge.
You only look to your usual confirmation bias material eh?
Do you only watch television for the paid commercials?
Why would watch YouTube videos featuring highly paid actors?
Because you could learn something... Something I realize you're disinterested in.
But this video has nothing to do with acting. It has something to do with humanity and a path to a better and more balanced world view... I know, I know... you couldn't care less.
There is no "humanity", Les. There are only individual humans.
Whatever.
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