To follow one's conditioning is comfort and deadness || Acharya Prashant, on Khalil Gibran (2015)
Comfort! Comfort the treacherous, the deadly! Comfort that cheats our senses and makes us slaves to the passing hour!
~ Khalil Gibran – “Lazarus and His Beloved”
Speaker: So, what does Khalil Gibran has to say?
*Comfort! Comfort the treacherous, the deadly!Comfort that cheats our sensesand makes us*slaves to the passing hour!
What is ‘comfort’? That which you are conditioned to.
There is no other definition of comfort. And that is why comfort means different things to different people, at different points in time. Nothing else defines your comfort. The conditioning of the mind is what defines comfort. The conditioning of the mind, is what defines ‘comfort’.
You are conditioned to take a particular kind of food. You say, “Now I am comfortable with this.” You are conditioned to think in a particular way and avoid thinking in other ways, and then you become uncomfortable with those thoughts, and comfortable with other thoughts. You are conditioned to wear a particular kind of dress, and when some other kind of garment comes to you, you feel uncomfortable in wearing it.
