What we percieve

[Guest guest]

But if you have a squirmy 8 and 10 year old, what a great place for them to

learn about patience, consideration, humility, and even human behavior -

waiting in the Darshan line.

 

You know, at least in the Darshan line, you can hang out, go take a walk,

have a snack, take a snooze, take a pee.

 

Amma never stops until, the last of us has been hugged.

 

<< Also, what¹s the big fuss about the line? Are people in a hurry to get

through it so they can go to a movie? Seems to me the whole Amma experience

is one of hanging around the whole time, soaking up the bliss. What¹s the

big rush? (Unless of course, you have a squirmy 2-year-old.) >>

[Guest guest]

Dianadevi wrote:

 

> But if you have a squirmy 8 and 10 year old, what a great place for them to

> learn about patience, consideration, humility, and even human behavior -

> waiting in the Darshan line.

 

Blessed Be to that! Even compassion can be learned by a teenager while she

waits.

 

Shelly

Mommy to 5

CT

[Guest guest]

I wanted to share a great experience I had with respect to my son

getting a name from Amma & the lesson in patience he received.

 

He is 10 years old and in Chicago he decided he wanted to get a

name. He went through the process of singing up, asking again and

again when to do it, and was seated next to Amma to get his name. He

waited there for about 2-3 hours & I watched him sit there. About

ever 10 minutes, he tugged on Dayamrita swami's robe asking 'is it

time yet'... My initial reaction was to want to get up and to scold

him, because my ego was embarrassed by his behavior. I convinced

myself to just sit and watch as he got scolded time and again...being

told 'not yet, just sit and wait'. By the time he got his name, he

had mellowed quite a bit. The way I look at this is he must have

burned off many many vasanas during this experience... something I

never could have been able to do on my own with him.

 

I have enjoyed watching this discussion because it has reinforced

that my experiences or reactions are not isolated.

 

Just about ever day around Amma someone will do something that I take

offense to in some way. I believe that it is 'my taking offense'

that is the root of the problem, or my reactions, and not that

person.

 

When I was first coming to see Amma, I wanted everything to be

perfect, to have the perfectly blissful experience. I would totally

cut myself off from work or my day to day life to try to preserve

this blissfulness as mush as possible. At that time, these ego-

resetting experiences always were uncomfortable.

 

I have recently made a transition where I am trying to use my day to

day stresses as opportunities to strip off vasanas, instead of trying

to run away from them or avoid them. When I see the unpleasant

experiences I have around Amma's sevites in this way, I can somehow

transform them into tools to help me kill of more and more of my ego.

 

- Vishvesh

 

 

 

 

 

Ammachi, Dianadevi@a... wrote:

> But if you have a squirmy 8 and 10 year old, what a great place for

them to

> learn about patience, consideration, humility, and even human

behavior -

> waiting in the Darshan line.

[Guest guest]

Ammachi, "vishvesh47" <vishvesh47> wrote:

> Just about ever day around Amma someone will do something that I

take

> offense to in some way. I believe that it is 'my taking offense'

> that is the root of the problem, or my reactions, and not that

> person.

 

 

Maybe there is a bit of both. However, what I have found most

important, as you have said, is that "disconnecting" myself from

other's people actions allows me to experience Amma more deeply as

opposed (for example) to being frustrated because someone else keeps

talking loudly, and acting inside the temple, like if they were on the

mall.