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> Yes what is happening is sad, disgusting... > But what can I do right now that would change > a mind, slow it down? If you're talking about a mind other than your own: nothing. And this was something I meant to mention two messages back, because you'd shared an experience that my friend Ramesh had back in '01. "You don't love America, you're taking the terrorists' side." There was nothing he could do to get those people out of the narrow, angry, fearful place in ther minds that brought them to say that, and to which they fixed their views about what had to be done. There's nothing you can do about that now. You have to focus your calming and contemplative energy on yourself -- go inside -- and be consciously detached from what is going on around, what people say, and being concerned about how they think. People will have to come to the awareness of how this "really is" on their own. I've gone through this... on my own, and in trying to elucidate things for other people. Until that other mind can accept the frame, the elements of the picture won't make any sense, and the reaction can be strong. Continue to change and work with your own mind. That's where you concern needs to be. See how the generating calm and some degree of openness actually draws support and curiosity and questions to you. >>where the dust settles, and how, will kind of tell me how best to act. Well, using your own assertion, if everything is falling apart, then the dust won't be able to settle anywhere. I could even say there is no dust, but many, many small seeds of exhortation or possibilty that can be sown into situations around me at whatever time I choose. Yes, there's nothing you can physically do to stop the bombs from falling. There's little chance that individually you can change someone's mind or get Bush to take up the olive branch. The effects and consequences of what's going on are completely uncertain and seemingly ominous. But what you can do is remember that you have (like anyone else) intelligence, you have a voice, and you have the ability and the freedom to use them whenever and however you choose. And to do so out of concern and horror for the death and pain that is being practiced by others, understanding that that pain and death will return to them in some fashion, and hoping for the poetic or altruistic or hippie ideal that NO ONE need endure that, then you can act now in whatever small way -- and that concern and love will explode and resonate with greater force than any bomb that these other human minds can devise. Dialogue on a day in March |
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