Niralambya
Tuesday 10 April 2007
Yoga
The only life I have is mine. Each is responsible for their own actions, or lack of action. We each have our own work to do. I must focus on mine while there is still time...
The hardest part of the yogaic path for me is accepting my role in doing good in the lives of others. It is so frustrating that it seems it would be so simple to help those I know make a small change to immensely improve their lives in the very direction they are struggling- and they reject my assistance (but usually find their own way sooner or later); yet people I barely know come to me frequently full of emotion of how some small thing I did or said dramatically changed their lives forever. Therefore I should stop trying and simply be! (It is from a concept of Eastern philosophy, which seemed alien, cold, and callous when I first came across this concept of rightful conduct as a child. The Western equivalent is deeply linked to the modern practice of Christianity and is almost the reverse; forcible interference/doing something on behalf of the other(s) for their own good [think charity, evangelism, etc.]: but only one works, and works for everyone(!) over the long term. To let another travel their own path of pain while seeing the solution that worked for oneself is not uncaring, but nurturing their self-development. I keep forgetting this concept. One can support them in other ways which they are able to accept.) Like Rolf and all other thinking beings I am learning deeper truths in old advice as I deepen my practice on and off the mat.
I so much want to create a sustainable society for everyone that I too often forget that we each build it ourselves, with what we individually find of worth, our own varied treasures, true selves, and this is what makes such a potential society worth building and being involved.
Came across the below after writing the first paragraph in today’s entry... Rolf is so different from me in virtually every experience of his life yet we have come close to the same realizations (-but his are far better written!). This is from a piece titled “Minding Your Own Business”.
What I am learning is that I cannot be against something and for something (else) at the same time. What I am learning is that when I take my attention away from what I am for I lose touch with the vision that lights my way. What I am learning is that it is my business to make my dreams come true. Rolf Gates (blog, link below) March 02, 2007
Rolf Gates blog
Bees
My father called with the latest news from the beekeeping community in the evening. The beekeepers’ meeting tomorrow will prove unusually intense. The community is small, we all know each other, and with Colony Collapse Disorder making big news, many of our group are on the news. One commercial beekeeper lost something like 540 hives out of about 660! Not CCD: sheer weather, as with mine. All colonies doing well despite our unusually severe winter weather as it began to warm up, then a two week cold snap and 3/5 of the colonies are dead.