The Root of Sorrow is Attachment by Anthony De Mello 

Where was this guy my whole life?

I have read and listened to hundreds of books. This Man is the most profound thinker I have come across, and his book/ audiobook is not to be overlooked!

This man saved my life!

Anthony was a true Mystic. Awareness was a masterpiece.

He did trancend. I truly believe that.

He was a master of spirituality, a mystic, though restrained by the Catholic Church hierarchy for putting all religions and religious teachers in equal footing.

This is so deep and a lot will fly over surface level peoples heads

Happiness through Materialistic stuff was so conflicting to me until now. I needed this. Thanks.

I love this man ...May he be blessed ✨

I have an attachment to those glasses!

Mindfulness is really desirelessness. It's the therapy in vogue to reduce your suffering by changing your thoughts and beliefs. I love the mental exercise of not even judging thoughts. We have inordinate desires to control everything, to get one's way, to win, and to analyze.

The biggest Relief for me was not to feel anymore SORRY for myself! Changed a lot. Blessings.

I tend to watch a lot of these kinds of videos. What I noticed here is that unlike so many of the other teachers there are no flowers behind him. Just his message. interesting

No attachment no fears

The woman at 7:11 has no attachment to staying conscious 😊 Jokes aside, the book "Awareness" by Anthony De Mello changed my life. It may be my favorite book of all time. I read it every year. God bless you all! ❤️🙏

Incrível.

This helped me realise how attached I was to succeeding in my current Masters program. Thank you.

Thank you so much Mr De Mello 🙏 You have open my eyes and I'm very much awake now 😊

Majestic 💐💐💐

DeMello was one of my earliest spiritual influencers and I love seeing him here. His books have a light like few others. If you can find his book on meditation, it is perhaps the best book ever written on the subject.

“Is we don’t get that we are going to be miserable, that’s called attachment”

I owe my happiness today to Tony's teachings of spirituality. I was introduced to his book about 15 years ago. Only in the past few years has it truly started to sink in. Grateful for this.

My HERO!!! ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🙌🙌🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

This guy is the OG Double-Deepak Chopra

"Depression at loss of something" wicked

An attachment is a "have to have", a dependency.

Although this video is quite old, the message is more relevant now than ever before. Thank you!

You need 'a reason' to be unhappy

Anthony holds the keys

yes, and when you believe in jesus christ, you no longer struggle with these attachments. this is all reiteration, read the bible! 🥰

I had to see this.I am grateful

Talks straight up

Amazing and true ❤

Anthony Démelo so funny, but so real❤

Very interesting video on attachment🥰

Thank you

Brilliant mind

Thanks

He taught us how to make fire! I have a giant poster of him on the wall 😜

This was beautiful! But please do yourselves a favour and have a giggle at 7:11 😂😂❤

"Achieved is the end of craving" anonymous

If you were not actively engaged in making your life miserable, you would be happy 😂 Anthony Demello

I think I have the opposite problem. I don't feel much attachment. Neither do I feel much sorrow. I enjoy being around others, have fun with them, etc. but I don't have the urge to have a relationship. To live together with someone else. The thing is, I am actually quite happy being by myself. I just wonder whether this is healthy.

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What is it called when somebody lives in such a way that his/her soul purpose is to dedicate their life to enlighten other human beings to the Art of heart seeing, happiness, Love?

BUT - don't get attached to "getting unattached" - sometimes "IT" rains and sometime not.

😆 @6:45 "So here it is. The world is full of sorrow. The root of sorrow is attachment desire. The uprooting of sorrow is the dropping of attachment. How does one drop it? One only looks and sees that it is based on a false belief. The belief that without this I cannot be happy. That's false."  From Nisargadatta: "All chaos is due to a concept: I am the body. The affairs of the world are going on by the strength of a concept. Do not renounce anything; you have only to understand....Pure consciousness is called Naryana. Beings do not know it; hence they suffer misery. Those who have recognized that consciousness is without quality - guna - get tired of staying on in the world....Simply remember that your form is like space. "Our behavior through body consciousness is like the condition of a patient in hospital. During sickness one feels the need for oneself. So long as there is sickness, one has to look after oneself very carefully. Sickness means beingness. "You might not understand this but it is important to understand just the same - identification with the body is like a sickness; therefore, it needs to be taken care of throughout the day....You look after yourself so that this experience of sickness should not pass away. Since the experience itself is that of sickness, it will come to an end....Why do we do japa and meditation? Is it not in order to protect the consciousness? However, this quality itself is of material origin. It is created through the essence of the body essence of food. Because of body consciousness it has expectations, desires and passions. "...the gnani has no use of his self-realization. With such discrimination one goes beyond consciousness. Every being is protecting that which can never be protected in spite of all efforts. All that is desirous of protection will not last. "....You aspire to get physical and spiritual well being through your body consciousness, but the body is not your true nature....Body consciousness takes all the responsibility and pride. As a result it becomes a source of misery. The one who is forever awake is the satguru. He gives you wakefulness. Take that wakefulness and be awakened. Then you will get the true nature of the satguru. One who follows the guru word does not have to make much effort. "....After listening to this, you will understand that your consciousness is the quality of the vital life force. It is not you. Only see how consciousness has come over you. Leave all the rest. All complications have started with consciousness. That which has to experience consciousness has no name or form; hence, it has identified itself with the body. Consciousness depends upon food. "....Until you get the full understanding, observe how consciousness has arisen....How long will it take for us to get realization? Until such times as when your concepts come to an end. "Wakefulness is the primordial illusion."

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Haha, this was wonderful to hear! If only it was true...

Can these lessons be taught to children? Does a child with limited life experience have the capacity to comprehend ? It sure would be interesting

where do you think Love comes from?

Well if you work for Tesla, u can’t do propaganda for Lucid. At the end of he’s life he recognized Who had all in all. In he’s book ; “The way to love”.

But don't you think it gives you higher chance of success if you have an all or nothing mentality? Like wouldn't persona A (puts his success as condition to be happy) have higher chance of succeeding to get what he wants, and person B (is happy even if not achieving set thing) less chance, since less pressure?

Girl in the middle at 7:12 is attached to the inside of her eyelids.

I feel so relieved that their is less in front of me than behind. At 64....l can't wait to go home to source. I have never known happyness on Earth. I got it all wrong.

He probably lived in the very comfortable Jesuit Residence at Fordham where somebody else paid the bills to keep a really nice roof over his head. And it's likely that staff made his meals. Most people I know are busy working to pay for a residence. Most people I know are attached to their significant others and children and relatives and friends. Everybody I know would be very sad if their wife and kids drove over a cliff and died. If they weren't grieving, I would judge them to be sick, or it would be very suspicious. Did the residents of Lahaina, HI bring their misery on by being attached to their loved ones, their homes, their businesses? Only somebody who doesn't understand what it is to work for things, or to be in a loving relationship can be so cavalier about blaming people for their unhappiness about loss because of attachment. I'd rather be attached to my spouse and be a human, than to some kind of near-sociopath who says "easy come, easy go" when his wife and kids drive over a cliff and die. The superiority of Fr. De Mello to suggest that people choose unhappiness by pursuing normal lives in a capitalist consumer culture is typical of Roman Catholic clergy. Why not sell Vatican City give the proceeds to India's poor and do Catholic ministry from a tent?

How is this different from Buddhism

This guy is silly.

Thx @mrlocario for referring me to this guy