A Quick Basic programme

[Guest guest]

Dear Vinodji<br><br>We have the choice of dealing

with negativity in many ways. We can choose to keep

our head in the sand like the ostrich and pretend it

doesn't exist hoping it will walk away or we can go down

to the level of the negativity and fight in the

language of the offender. <br><br>We can also choose to

tune our actions with our sadhna and the lessons our

practice brings to us. We can turn such occasions into

learning opportunities, making sure that we don't in any

way support or encourage and propagate such behavior

directly or indirectly. There are plenty of important

practical issues to learn about - how should sadhaks handle

negativity in general, what is it that makes us angry with

negativity, why we get frustrated with negativity, how not to

behave etc etc. <br><br>This last option is the one we

continue to propose.<br><br>So lets move on and do join us

in our discussion of the various topics that are

going on keeping it in the spirit of our clubs mission

... lets continue our saadhanaa.<br><br>Peace to you

<br><br>Tat twam asi<br>UMA

[Guest guest]

Dear Cary<br><br>No one can stop an individual

from acting out a negative emotion. What we CAN do is

find, propose and encourage ways to deal with them that

are in tune with our saadhna. <br><br>Personally,

walking the talk is part of my . Perhaps the

greatest part of it. If we can practice dealing with lower

energies in a spiritually sensitive manner in a small

family of sadhaks like this, perhaps we can also learn

to transfer such practice into our lives with ripple

effects into the community and world. <br><br>Isn't it

time sadhaks came together in the common goal of

modeling ways to deal with difficult situations that are

based on the paradigm of tough but loving

kindness?<br><br>Much love <br><br>Your friend <br><br>UMA