It is very challenging to maintain equanimity in a world where starving people coexist with conspicuous consumption.
Reality Bite!
by Keshav | Jun 4, 2020 | Community Insights | 20 comments
It is very challenging to maintain equanimity in a world where starving people coexist with conspicuous consumption.
Beautiful chants tonight. Closed my eyes and felt so connected. Namaste.
“Deep in my heart I do believe” that this “massive experience” is uniting us. There are some who do not want “whites” and “blacks” to unite because when that happens there will be no stopping us in forging ahead to accomplish a time where there will not be two standards for “people of color” and white or for rich and for poor. May this be the “someday” that “we shall overcome; We’ll walk hand in hand; we shall live in peace.” (Charles Albert Tindley, Pete Seeger)
I remember at first being offended by “All in the Family.” It was politically incorrect. But as I watched it I realized it was mirroring our society and hopefully opening people’s eyes to the ignorance of prejudice and those who believed “white privilege” was a given.
I know how much I have been “enlightened” by people who “let their light shine.” I am naturally attracted to people who own their dignity and know its source.
Along the line of ‘trash collecting’, an episode of Fawlty Towers – a series by John Cleese (of Monty Python) was removed recently from a streaming service because a character uses the “n” word. John Cleese responded that he resented this because the purpose of including that in the episode was to make fun of the type of ‘old empire relics’ in Britain who glibly live their racism totally unconsciously and with entitlement. He was pointing out a razor’s edge between eradicating a thing vs. forgetting a thing.
It has been very upsetting to me to watch while something that has affected the entire world has eventually devolved into a blame game. A perfect opportunity to acknowledge how we are all vulnerable as human beings on earth who can all be impacted by one massive experience has turned into separation. This does not bode well for something like severe global warming. This does, however, make it clear how important it is to be the change that is needed and show loving kindness to all.
Amen, Keshav!
Very Wise Diane!
I have been focusing very simply in what I want to create rather than what I don’t want. Going against anything simply gives it more power. I am doing this with the posts I choose to share on facebook as well. It is what the Empowerment Model that I studied at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY in 1996. Affilrm what we want to create as if it is here NOW in the present moment.
Precisely, Joe.
I love when mind is in battle mode, and a thought that has no answer arises. The war that was once a painful obsession instantly returns home to peace. Even mind gets tired of the same painful story. If we’re going to make it up…
Going to war with war is a huge trap. Making peace with the war within me first (as an operational working model), both creates and extends an open invitation for all to embrace the peace that holds us together.
Afterthought: Isn’t it hypocritical to make war against war?
Even the feel of “anti” is that of against, of separation. And the feel of “pro” is that of for, with, in union with. Anti seems more like pushing against, perhaps even violence. Pro seems like moving in that direction, perhaps in a peaceful way. The second way always makes more progress in the end.
Thanks for the suggestion to reload the page, Diane, it worked for me!
Now is the perfect time and place to open our hearts to the cavernous difference between pro-peace and anti-war.