The Emptiness of Excess
Dinner and Deception
from The New York Times
Serving elaborate meals to the
super-rich left me feeling empty.
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Dinner and Deception
from The New York Times
Serving elaborate meals to the
super-rich left me feeling empty.
August 25, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
Thanks, Fred! Interesting article. An art taken to its highest degree (in this case food, serving, dining) can be beautiful and inspiring. But it is illusory, transitory, and inextricably linked to its dark side: class inequality, hard work, wastefulness.
The beauty or pleasure of excess can only give a fleeting glimpse of Atman. To mistake and pursue it for the happiness of true Self only leads to an increasing sense of emptiness.
I’ve been spared the temptations of great wealth in this lifetime, but the principal of excess still applies when I’m tempted to indulge too often in chocolate (or any other pleasure). A little is heavenly, a lot is most definitely not!
All love,
Kathleen
August 25, 2015 @ 12:21 pm
Hear, hear!
Love,
Fredness