Experiencing the Enthusiasm of Others
Not being interested in what the other person is experiencing is actually extremely degenerate – one might as well be on one’s own with a magazine. The more interested one is in what the other is experiencing, the more interest it arouses
We seem to judge every potential interaction with another person based on whether or not we think we will personally get something out of it. So if someone were to put on a movie that we weren’t particularly interested in, we might just get up and walk out of the room. I could never put my finger on why this seemed ‘degenerate’ - like going in the wrong direction. The closest I could really cognize it was in terms of what Zen Master Seung Sahn calls ‘together action’ That we can act in harmony with those around us and get some bliss out of that - as opposed to constantly striving to be entertained by what we feel is ‘worthy’ of our time. We could get together to just share an experience, any experience at all. I just stumbled across this article and found it to give voice to my suspicion.
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