WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF DETACHMENT
+ It is not the actual literal renunciation
which counts, it is the personal abandonment of belief in the importance of
transient things. ... If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is
renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open
eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between
two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and
lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time. When we take the
torch of wisdom to show us our path through life, we will end by realizing what
is really profitable in life and what is not.
-- Hazrat Inayat
Khan excerpted from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_15.htm
+ Hazrat Inayat
Khan (see SE posts 22, 31 and 45) wisely points out that detachment, or renunciation,
is a process in itself which can lead to more and more profitable experiences
in this life. Discernment, a practice we
will soon explore more thoroughly, can’t happen without it.
As we move through
these practices, more fruits become available to us. Detachment, based so much on
the practice of stillness,
is a way to true abundance, not scarcity, a way to more, not less. Deprivation is not what this practice is about.
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