It has been far too long since I've enjoyed your company so lets not make the pause so long this time.
I've been back in Europe now for about 2 months continuing this incredible adventure of being a full time Art of Living Teacher. Just last night I was coming home with my roommate Ryan. We had been discussing the Thesis for his Masters in Contemporary Percussion. He would like to relate contemporary music to Human Values. His view is that if you can accept a piece of music that most would dismiss as noise, as it is for what it is, and revel in the beauty of it, what is to stop one from applying this more broadly to relationships, situations, life?
This brings up an interesting point. For the millions of us that have taken the Art of Living Course how many of us practice what we've learned? You do your Sudharshan Kriya but have you been able to live up to even just one of the knowledge points on the course?
Its tough. Accept people and situations as they are. Have you been able to incorporate this into your life? Swami Sukchaitanya once said to me that if you can master completely, even just one of the knowledge points, enlightenment has arrived. You may be able to accept an ignorant person, but can you accept a person in knowledge that blames or acuses you of something you did not do? This is a whole other level of acceptance. The heart says that these thoughts in the minds of others are just passing bubbles in that persons consiousness. They have no control of them any way. But the mind asks why? You want a trick to move from the head to the heart? It's easy. I learned it from the best! Turn your why? into a WOW! Wow! All these years of knowledge and this person is still like this. Wow!
What is the alternative? You dont't accept. Then what happens You fume and fight or cut yourself into little pieces and wollow in the injustice! No way! For me there's no choice. My state of mind is too important. There is too much work and fun to be had!
Any blame is an opportunity to grow. That is the beauty of any type of critism. Whether true or faulse it gives you the opportunity to look at your life and how you are leading it. It makes you sharper and your scences more acute. So the next time someone wrongly blames you for something you didn't do, Thank them! They just did you a big favour!
