The Emptiness of Excess

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1. Kathleen
   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

   • Fred Davis
     August 25, 2015 @ 12:21 pm

     Hear, hear!

     Love,
     Fredness