Humility
Humility: The quality of being humble; humbleness,
meekness. b An act of self-abasement 2 Humble condition, rank, or position; unpretentiousness. Oxford Dictionary
Richard: Humility is merely the antidote to pride ...
you cannot have one without the other. Where is the need to be humble unless you are first proud? Therefore, being humble is merely pride
standing on its head ... and one is proud of being virtuous.
All humility is nothing but the ego being very, very clever ... it is but a product
of a lost, lonely, frightened and very, very cunning entity called ego. One of the chief attributes of a freedom from a ‘self’ or a
‘Self’ and from believing in a ‘God’ and a ‘Greater Reality’, is a completeness ... an absence of the need to control a wayward
‘I’ with moralistic injunctions. Personally I have no humility whatsoever and, of course, neither am I proud.
In order to be free of the Human Condition one needs to see the place pride and
humility plays in one’s life. ‘I’ am proud of ‘my’ major achievement – which is maintaining ‘myself’ as an identity – and
‘I’ will do anything but relinquish ‘my’ grip on this flesh-and-blood body ... including humbling ‘myself’ before some God in order
to ameliorate the pernicious effects of pride.
However, humility is merely the antidote to pride ... and they feed of each other, continuously. For
example, one cannot but feel proud of one’s accomplishment of self-abasing humility ... it is in the nature of the entity to do so. A humbled
self is still a self, nonetheless, leaving one proud of one’s performance. When one realizes how silly all this is; when one sees that pride
and humility are standing in the way of freedom from all self-centred activity, something astounding occurs. The opposites vanish. I am simply
here where I have always been ... and pride, with its companion in arms, humility, has disappeared along with all the other feelings. I am free
to be here now in the world as-it-is. Unadorned and unencumbered, I can stand on my own two feet, owing allegiance to no-one.
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